Means "security" and "tax breaks", back slapping "attaboys" and testerone driven thinking.
Bush to Democrats (democracy), means impaired "security", bloated monetary kickbacks for cronies and political investors, lies, obsfucation, arrogance, frenzied religious beliefs, ad nauseum.
Sorry you had to have your visit peppered with this, but there's something visceral in Bush "hatred".
It doesn't take a brain surgeon to see what he's done to this country.

And her son is at risk over there. Some people like the money and think the risk is worth it.
That's their perogative.
I know soldiers who are going back there as "security" agents at $80,000 for the first SIX WEEKS, all tax free. They have been in the thick of it, and have little to come back home to (young with no families started to speak of). I pity their souls. All the money in the world will never bring back their peace of mind or way of life before they went there to fight for "freedom and democracy" for GWB and his "WMD". What price "freedom"? An arm?A leg? No sense of self? Futility?

Democracy for Iraq allright, while Rome burns.............