The kind of liberty and freedom Mr Bush is talking about is the kind that is reserved for those who drive tanks over the homes and bodies of the "liberated". Liberty to do exactly what they want, and take exactly what they desire, from whomever they please, at the point of a gun. And then...hold an election among those still surviving who are willing to collaborate with their conquerors. (Just so it looks kind of like home...well, sort of a little bit, anyway...)

An election between one set of carefully chosen stooges and another is really no election at all. Ask those who lived under the Soviets.