Bush Talks of Freedom as He Ends Trip.

"You know, following the outcome of Iraq postwar, when you travel the world, people react with cynicism when you talk about freedom and democracy at this point," said Grant Aldonas, a former Bush administration undersecretary of commerce and now an analyst at the Washington-based Center for Strategic and International Studies.

There is "real skepticism about whether or not you can deliver democracy at the end of the barrel of a gun," Aldonas said, "and at the end of the day ... you've got to have the economic well-being and economic wherewithal to exercise political rights."

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