I think you are all missing the point. Democracy works best when the people demand it for themselves and set up their own systems. When its imposed from outside, things are much more difficult, for one thing the new system will have problems with legitimacy, also they are succeptable to corruption.
I dont mean to suggest that it is always this way, one notable exception is Japan. The US was very sucessful at setting up a postwar government in Japan (although it has its own problems with corruption and legitimacy), but it took several years and an incredible ammount of money to do it.
Personally I think the Bush administration underestimated the ammount of work involved, not that it cannot be done.
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