The road to hell...

...is paved by good intentions.

U.S. missteps led to Gaza crisis

Officials in the Bush administration awoke on the morning of Jan. 26, 2006, to catastrophic news.

Hamas, a violent Islamist movement whose charter calls for the destruction of Israel, had won Palestinian parliamentary elections - elections that were deemed free and fair and a cornerstone of President Bush's initiative to bring more democracy to the Muslim world.

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