William Fisher Iraq and the Bush "Democracy Agenda"

William Fisher writes for Truthout: "Democracy was a word scarcely heard in the just-concluded Congressional testimony of Gen. David Petraeus and Ambassador Ryan Crocker. The principal reason, according to a new report published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, is that despite sweeping rhetoric about the global spread of democracy, the Bush administration has significantly damaged US democracy promotion efforts and increased the number of close ties with 'friendly tyrants.'"