Bush’s speechwriters appear to have taken the “huh?”-inducing language out of a phrase, leaving in the inspirational point of it (i.e. breaking the chains and assuming controls of one’s destiny), and making it read aloud in a more smooth and pleasing manner (try both “versions” out loud and tell me which one sounds better and better suits the occasion and context).

Moreover, Bush has been about the “spreading freedom and self-government” thing since roughly 10 a.m. on September 11, 2001. Why cloud what’s perhaps the one clearly-focused idea his administration has pushed for so many years with language that only confuses the issue?

This whole “issue” is one of the dumber tempests-in-a-teapot that the Bush-deranged have come up with to date. A stroll through the comments beneath the linked original post will confirm that this is primarily about the crazies massaging their anti-Bushism.

Reading the quote in the context of the speech, it sounds just fine and doesn’t actually mean much different without the omitted phrase than with it, but for the confusion the latter adds.