Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq
Posted: Wednesday, June 9, 2004

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Bush's Democratic Charade in Iraq
In November 2003, with US soldiers facing mounting casualties and the search for weapons of mass destruction largely abandoned, George W. Bush appeared before the National Endowment for Democracy, a quasi-public institution set up to advance US political objectives abroad. There, on the Endowment's Twentieth anniversary, Bush proclaimed a new rationale for the occupation of Iraq-"To build a democracy," a democracy that "will send forth the news from Damascus to Tehran."



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