Credit to our democracy?

Bush said yesterday that Americans should insist on a debate about Iraq that "brings credit to our democracy, not comfort to our adversaries."

Exactly how has our presence in Iraq brought "credit to our democracy"? And what if many of our "adversaries" - the Iraqis whose lives have been so painfully and permanently upheaved by our presence there - are right?

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/11/politics/11prexy.html