"I see Iraq here."

This quote says it all. His plan was to start in Iraq and spread democracy, but this is what GWB's Middle East policy has actually wrought:
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- QUOTATION OF THE DAY -
"I see Iraq here. There is no mercy. We are afraid. See how ferocious this fight was? There is no future for us."
- GHASSAN HASHEM, 37, a civil servant, on Palestinian strife in Gaza.

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/15/world/middleeast/15mideast.html