[Naspino]

I'll play devil's advocate. I've been think if Canada and France invade the United States -- don't you think the liberals would pour into the streets burning pictures of Bush and the American Flag. Free from democracy once and for all -- all hail socialism! Yada yada.

[ScholarWarrior]

I wish, I really, really wish.

[George W. Bush]

I'll play devil's advocate. I've been think if Canada and France invade the United States -- don't you think the liberals would pour into the streets burning pictures of Bush and the American Flag. Free from democracy once and for all -- all hail socialism! Yada yada.

I agree. And we should understand that these people are so repressed that a lot of this shoe-waving is a hysterical expression of finally being able to do anything in freedom. It's unlikely the Iraqis have yearned to be free in the sense that we think of freedom. More likely, they want something better than what they have and see Saddam as the impediment to that. More than anything, Saddam's regime was brutally stupid toward its own people. These Stalinist regimes never differ much in fundamentals.