One word, two very different meanings

I just read a headline on the The Age web site which says Democracy rooted in Iraq: UK commander.

Thinking it was a very frank assessment of the failure of democracy to flourish since the American led invasion and topplong of Saddam Hussein, I kept reading:

“The senior British commander in Iraq said in an interview published on Monday that democracy is now rooted in the country …”.

But as I read further I realised that in fact he meant that democracy is indeed doing well.