What does "democracy" mean to Bush?

When it turned out that every pre-invasion excuse turned into mythology - no 9/11 connection, no weapons of Mass Destruction, etc. - the Bushies turned to the old saw: bringing democracy to the previously unenlightened.

Now the question arises: What does democracy mean in the Bush lexicon?

We've known since 2000 that it doesn't mean the will of the majority or Al Gore would be president.

When the people in the Middle East took Bush at his word about bringing democracy to them and went out to vote in numbers unknown in the "cradle of democracy" what has it meant? Iran, under it's newly-elected leadership, has been told that if it doesn't behave as Bush wants, it is likely to be the next victim of "regime change." The Palestinians have been told that if they don't change their newly-elected Hamas-led government, the U.S. and Israel will not do business with them.

And now: Remember a short time ago the great success that was claimed by the Bushies and their clowns on Fox News and the N.Y. Post for the the elections in Iraq? Well here's the latest twist on the democracy Bush brought to Iraq

According to the New York Daily News, "The U.S. Ambassador bluntly warned Iraqi leaders yesterday that they risk losing American support unless they establish a national unity government that places the police and the army out of the hands of religious parties."

He went on to say: "We are not going to invest the resources of the American people and build forces that are run by people who are sectarian."

In other words: Do as we say, not as we do. You didn't really think we meant all that stuff about an independent democracy, did you?

How long will it be before the changed regime in Iraq will have to be changed? I guess the WMD were the ballot boxes or what the Iraqis put in them.