Democracy is a Good Thing...Right?

Here in Washington we're all about freedom. We love freedom so much,we will send our young people to other countries to die for it. Not for our freedom, but for theirs. It's so important to us that the world is free, that we even support other countries freedom to make bad choices. After all, America has made a few bad choices, and we've come out just fine. We're still free, even though our phones can be tapped without a warrant. We're still free to question our government, even though the questioning might put us on the list of traitors. We're free to make bad choices, much like the Palestinians have done.

We've elected George Bush. Twice.

President Bush loves Democracy. He loves it so much that he's urging the current Palestinian Authority to stay in power in spite of the election results.

Bush urges Abbas to remain in office despite Hamas victory By Shmuel Rosner, Haaretz Correspondent, Haaretz Service and Agencies

United States President George W. Bush urged Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas on Thursday to remain in office despite the legislative elections which gave Hamas an absolute majority in parliament."We'd like him stay in power. I mean we'd like him to stay in office. He is in power. We'd like him to stay in office."

Bush reiterated the U.S. position that it will not deal with Palestinian leaders who do not recognize Israel's right to exist.

I'm not sure how well the whole freedom thing is working in the Middle East. If you give people a real choice, they might just choose to have war and terrorism. In Iraq, instead of democracy, the citizens have chosen the Ayotollahs and the oppression of women. In America, we have voted against privacy, and women's right to choose. Is freedom always the right thing? Can the majority sometimes be wrong?

And is this the biggest State Department Fuck-up you've ever seen?

Heck of a job Condi.