Bush compares his goal in Iraq to the democratization of Japan after World War II. But Japan was a totally conquered, ethnically homogeneous country with no insurgency, a large middle class, and previous experience of political openness.
布什把他在伊拉克的目标与二战后日本的民主化相提并论，但当时日本完全处于战败状态，人种单一，没有叛乱发生，存在着大量的中产阶级，并且之前有过政治开放的经验。尽管这样，取得成功还是用了七年时间。