4)We have to create democracy in Iraq. (This argument was added after the others fell flat) Whether democracy will prevail among people who didn't ask for it remains to be seen. But it is not the job of the US to overthrow every screwball dictator in the world and install a democratic government. The effort has cost us many lives and billions of dollars.
This is simply not true. I quote to you from the President Bush's speech on , the night we began the attack on Iraq:
"Many Iraqis can hear me tonight in a translated radio broadcast, and I have a message for them. If we must begin a military campaign, it will be directed against the lawless men who rule your country and not against you. As our coalition takes away their power, we will deliver the food and medicine you need. We will tear down the apparatus of terror and we will help you to build a new Iraq that is prosperous and free. In a free Iraq, there will be no more wars of aggression against your neighbors, no more poison factories, no more executions of dissidents, no more torture chambers and rape rooms. The tyrant will soon be gone. The day of your liberation is near."
Democracy in Iraq was always a central goal of the invasion, and to say otherwise is to mistate the facts.
Beat me to it, but I would also suggest the 2003 State of the Union, where Bush specifically lays down four seperate goals for the War in Iraq. 1) WMD 2) Get rid of Saddam 3) Fight Terrorist 4) Establish a viable Middleeastern Democracy
Trust me, I have spent the last year and half studying this. Bush mentions Democracy in Iraq as a goal no less than 13 seperate times in the lead up to the war.
