Apparently, according to Time Magazine, Bhutto was killed because President Bush has tried to shove democracy down the collective throats of middle easterners.

Benazir Bhutto’s assassination Thursday should put a bitter end to the Bush administration’s misguided policy of shoving democracy down the throat of the Middle East and Muslim world. Since 9/11 there has not been a single country in that region that has had peaceful and successful elections. Hamas’s victory in Gaza, the stalemate in Lebanon, elections in Iraq and now Pakistan — none of them have led to the stability, modernity, and civil society this administration promised us.

Apparently the elections in Iraq weren’t successful because al Qaeda still manages to set off a car bomb now and then.

And oh yeah, Time Magazine also says that Bush is to blame for Bhutto’s death because he didn’t deploy US security forces to the sovereign nation of Pakistan to protect her.

...there are some who think the Bush Administration is not without blame. Hussain Haqqani, a former top aide to Bhutto and now a professor at Boston University, thinks the U.S., which has counted Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf as a key ally against terrorism since 9/11, bears some of the responsibility. “Washington will have to answer a lot of questions, especially the Administration,” he says. “People like me have been making specific requests to American officials to intervene and ask for particular security arrangements be made for her, and they have been constantly just trusting the Musharraf Administration.” U.S. officials said they were leery of intervening in another nation’s internal affairs, and didn’t want to give Bhutto Washington’s imprimatur.

The Bush administration was right not to intervene on behalf of Bhutto (did she even want our protection?).  Imagine how we Americans would feel if, say, Jimmy Carter returned from an extended absence vowing to run for another term as President while touring the country under the protection of French security forces.  I don’t think many of us citizens would take too kindly to that.

I’m sure many in Pakistan would have felt the same way.

But so it goes.  Anything bad that happens in the world is Bush’s fault.  That’s the guiding philosophy most journalists start their day with, which means they need only connect a few dots and twist a few facts to dish out the President’s daily ration of blame.