Wampum

Mr. Bush today in Arizona:

Jon Kyl also understands what history has taught us, that democracies bring the peace we all want; that democracies don't fight with their neighbors; that democracies lay this foundation for a better future. He understands the lessons of history that I understand.

Hmmm...

Let's ask Canada about that: There was the Invasion of Canada in 1812, when those monarchy-lovin' Canadians beat back our attempts to plant the Stars and Stripes on Mont Royal. Of course, we were only talking democratic trash when we threatened to kick those poutine-eaters back to Britain in the so-called Aroostook War, Oregon Country dispute (Fifty-Four Forty or Fight) and Pig War.

What about our neighbor to the South? Obviously, our peaceful democracy didn't cause any strife with Mexico. Well, other than the Mexican American War, AKA, the "US War of Aggression to Spread Slavery into the US Southwest, Which, God Willing, Would Eventually Extend to the Isthmus of Panama, or Maybe Even All the Way to Cape Horn."

And our other North American neighbors? Well, barring Cuba, Puerto Rico, Dominican Republic, Panama, Grenada, Nicaragua, Honduras, and Haiti (plus the funding of "death squads" in El Salvador), the US has been a paragon of democracy-inspired pacifism in regards to our closest "friends".

Bush better head back to 11th grade US history class or at least hope that his vision of a "democratic" Iraq's relationship with its own neighbors is nothing close the reality of US hegemony through aggression over its North American neighbors.