Well, now, they would say that wouldn't they: , "He was democratically elected," [said a Bush administration official, but], "Legitimacy is something that is conferred not just by a majority of the voters, however." Talking about Chavez in Venezuela. No, sometimes you have to get the Supreme Court to throw the election your way.
And the best the Bushies can say about the way they handled this is to say that they didn't give arms to those who wanted to overthrow a democaratically elected president:
"We were not discouraging people," the official said. "We were sending informal, subtle signals that we don't like this guy. We didn't say, `No, don't you dare,' and we weren't advocates saying, `Here's some arms; we'll help you overthrow this guy.' We were not doing that."
(NY Times)
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