Well, no, those places aren't directly under Bush's political control in any formal sense. But neither were the East European satellite states of the USSR. And that's a much more effective way to control people. Give them the illusion that they are in control of their own territory, when in reality they are forced to conform to the economic and political aims of the United States or be the target of an American-backed military coup/invasion, as they learned in Chile, Nicaragua, Guatemala, Cuba, Haiti, Vietnam, Iraq, etc. The illusion of independence is sort of like Christian "free will": you are free to do whatever you want, but if you don't follow my policies and worship the way I do things, I'm gonna make sure you get sent to a lake of fire.