The Bush Administration’s Five Pitfalls following the 9/11 event

One - Iraq war/invasion: no weapon of mass destruction found, number of civilians reported killed by military intervention in Iraq is between 41,650 and 46,318, cost of war at $313,879,700,000 and increasing, US casualties (named dead and reported dead) – 2665.

Two - Osama Bin Laden is still plotting the attacks on the US and its allies.

Three - The Bush administration had everything going to unite America and failed to capture the moment.

Four - There was no action against Saudi Arabia where fifteen of the nineteen terrorists came from.

Five - The US has lost the support from many around the world despite the initial goodwill it has received after the attack.

Does Democracy = peace?

President Bush keeps talking about spreading democracy to promote peace. This to me raises a series of the following questions:

Does democracy automatically mean peace?

In general, would a country of a different system be willing to embrace democracy?

Can peace be achieved in a different way? In other words, can any other systems beside democracy produce a peaceful environment?

Is spreading democracy comparable to spreading the teaching of one's religion?

If so, wouldn’t the result be obvious (assuming that my supposition about nobody likes to be imposed upon regardless of what being imposed is correct)?

Could a system that works so well in one country fail miserably in the others because of the differences in history, culture, people, and belief?