(Washington Post) Editorial - On Monday President Bush again called on Egypt to "lead the way" toward democratic change in the Middle East. Ayman Nour, the head of the liberal Tomorrow Party, has been imprisoned because he offered a fresh democratic alternative in a Middle East stirred by the votes of Iraqis and Palestinians. Mubarak's answer to Bush's appeal has been to order a new wave of anti-American incitement in the state-run press and to have his goons rough up Nour, a man who proposes exactly the moderate, step-by-step change that Bush advocates - and that Egypt desperately needs. Mubarak is no longer testing Bush; he is spitting in his face.
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