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BREAKING Georgia – Rose Revolution (2003) -US aid: $103M (2002) & $141.16M (2003) -USAID, IRI & NDI funneled $23.5M (2002) & $21.06M (2003) into NGOs, activists & media -US-funded groups played a key role in regime change & used Serbian 2000 tactics, later influencing Ukraine Ukraine – Orange Revolution (2004) -US aid: $188.5M (2003) & $143.47M (2004) -"Democracy programs" got $54.7M (2003) & $34.11M (2004) via USAID, NED & the Eurasia Foundation -USAID’s SEAUP project (2003) influenced Ukraine’s parliament & judiciary Kyrgyzstan – Tulip Revolution (2005) Inspired by Georgia & Ukraine, USAID funded NGOs, activists & media pre-election US aid: $56.6M (2003) & $50.8M (2004 "Democracy programs" $13.5M (2003) & $12.2M (2004) Soros' Open Society sent $5M to Kyrgyzstan’s American University Lebanon – Cedar Revolution (2005) March 2005: 1M protesters demanded Syria’s military withdrawal USAID’s 2006 report claimed years of groundwork set the stage US aid to Lebanon tripled in the early 2000s from $15M to $45M