[WOSG]

As McLaughlin would say ... "the correct answer is 'yes'"

For the sake of Iraq, the region and the world, and in order to defeat the terrorists, we need to rid Iraq of saddam hussein. Saddam is on leg of the props that hold up international terrorism. With him gone, Syria, Saudi Arabia and Iran all three become much more managable affairs ... this is the KEY ELEMENT MISSING FROM THE THINKING OF THOSE WHO OPPOSE WAR VS IRAQ... Think like a chess game, and think 3 moves ahead, and MAYBE you might get it. Momentum towards Democracy in Iraq means same in syria, which laters to lebanano, which harbors hezbollah, which destabilizes Isreal, which faces hamas, which is funded by Saudis, which propogates wahhabism, which inderlies Al Quaeda, who were trained in Iraq on chemical weapons, etc.

The WMD factor merely changes this from a GOOD idea to an IMPERATIVE.

[Artois]

It is not, has not historically been, and should never be, the goal of the United States, to impose democracy to the world at large.

That's a philosophical objection, one with which our Founding Fathers would heartily concur.

The practical objection is this: the imposition of democracy in Middle Eastern nations would result in the election of Islamic radicals to power.