[billbears]

We will not allow the Iraqis to elect a Shi'ite zealot, for example

LOL!! We won't eh? Tell me, how well has that promise worked in the past with other Empires and their incessant intervention in the Middle East

[Tailgunner Joe]

We turned Germany and Japan, the two most hostile and violent regimes in the history of the world into peaceful, democratic, capitalist allies.

Our Republic has succeeded where empires have failed. We will succeed again in Iraq precisely because we are not an empire, and this is not a colonialist enterprise. The Iraqis will be free, so long as they do not decide to be our enemies.