The Republican Bush administration argued that it had an overall approach to the middle east region: launch a war with Iraq, start up democracy there and everything would somehow come right in the peace process.
"The road to Jerusalem goes through Baghdad" was the line we heard in Bush's first republican term. It was, of course, nonsense. The idea that Palestinians who wanted their land and homes back might be pursuaded by democracy never added up. And war, by itself, only made things worse.
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