"Yet Bush never wavered in his focus on his fundamental ideaology--attempting to plant democracies around the world, particularly in the Middle East."

I am confused. When Palestine elected a government that he did not want, he immediately went into attack mode, doing everything he could to punish the people of Palestine for electing the party that we did not want.

In Haiti, the administration was so opposed to their democratically elected president that we went in there when there was political tension and physically kidnapped their president (the Marines did), forced him on a plane, and dropped him off in South Africa.

I thought democracies were things were the people in the country were able to determine who their leadership is, and once determined the rest of the world worked with them until the new elections (or at least the ones that support democracy).

Further, you need to read freedmen. He met with Bush and Bush, Rummy, Wolfowitz, and a lot of others are devout believers in his economics. Did I say that Freedmen assembled the economic advisory team for Pinochet? I hate to say this, but this was never about democracy (we have always hated democracy abroad), this is about economics, and it did NOT work.