"Forget democracy and bring home troops, Bush will hear "
I'm glad George Washington is asleep and can't hear this.
But George Washington along with most of the founding fathers were terribly afraid of Democracy as a bellicose expansionist ideology (like how we view communism today). They didn't want America to become some militaristic Athens spreading the "new order," like France later became. Indeed most were upset about the perversion of their liberal self-deterministic revolution by those later events. The revolutions in France and the rest of Europe were vary hard on the ideals of the founding fathers. They new there was a danger it was turning into an international movement.