Mate, I was at a function over this past weekend and, over cocktails the discussion inevitably led to the war in Iraq. My viewpoint was and is that the liberation of Iraq was absolutely essential to the WOT. My liberal-and-somewhat-inebriated (but otherwise perfectly OK) mate exclaimed:
"What! Do you seriously mean to say that Iraq is better off now than it was under Saddam Hussein???"
"Yup." says I.
"But what about all the people who have been killed? What about the carnage?" says he, bug-eyed and outraged.
"Mate, Saddam Hussein and his psycho sons were Bad-Heads and Scroats who desperately needed to be removed from power. Now, the good people of Iraq have a Vote. Used to be they didn't need one. We can thank the Yanks for that. And the good people of Iraq will fight to keep their Vote, by civil war if that need be the Price. And when they are done, they'll hang Hussein and his mob from lamp-posts as an example to encourage the others."
Somehow, he just didn't get it.
It was more than we Yanks, your Nortern cousins that did it. You Diggers had a big hand in it too as well as the Free-Polish Forces, and the Queen's Own all helped. Funny, those who love real freedom, be it dreived from the Magna Carta, our Constitution or some other document, were and are there as MEN doing a MAN's job.