[Steve_Seattle]

" . . . get behind the Coalition effort to restore basic order and stability."

I'll quibble a bit here - under Saddam, there was not "order and stability," but the brutal and arbitrary rule of a dictator. So we are not trying to "restore" order and stability, but create it for the first time.

[tanuki]

Point taken. Thank you!

[tanuki]

That needs to be stated strongly-much of the need for our imposing order, security and basic services now is because these things had virtually disappeared for the average citizen under the unlamented Saddam. That is the true nature of the criminal regime that so-called progressives and humanitarians around the world embrace in damning our efforts.