I think you need to share that concept with the current administration more than anyone else, who views democracy not as a process but as an end all be all solution. I don't see the Bush administration as considering democracy to be a process so much as an end point.

If the process of democracy involves our having to stick around Iraq indefinitely in to the future and prop up a fragile government at the expense of our tax dollars and troops' lives, it's certainly not the type of democracy we were sold... after being sold previous false pretenses for the invasion.

The Bush administration backed themselves in to a corner with Iraq, forcing themselves to latch on to the notion of democracy as the cure for all the world's ills and stuck trying to put the best face on the fact that not every part of the world - not every country or culture - is as compatible with democracy as we'd like to think.