Robert Dreyfus writes that although we will not know the Iraqi government’s final tally for a few weeks, that won’t stop President Bush from declaring the elections a victory for democracy. Yet such a statement does democracy a major disservice, for democracy is much more than an election. Democracy can only be the outgrowth of an earnest national consensus — a consensus that Bush, for some unknown reason, has done everything possible to avoid building.

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