[MEGoody]

He's arguing that democracy with Western-style bill of rights can't be grafted onto the cultural stock of the Arab Muslim middle east.

Perhaps, but Bush has said from the beginning that Democracy in Iraq wouldn't look like the U.S., so he's telling us stuff we already know.

And he gets paid to do this?

[churchillbuff]

Perhaps, but Bush has said from the beginning that Democracy in Iraq wouldn't look like the U.S., """

Greeley's saying the same thing. He's saying it will look like an old-fashion Middle East dictatorship, with one-party or one-religion rule. Glad I counseled all the young people in my family against enlisting in this war. It wasn't worth the blood of young Americans. Any more than Bill Clinton's wars in Haiti and Somalia were. In 2000 Bush promised no more of that squandering of the lives of US troops for utopian nation-building. I applauded. He should have kept his word.