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Supe, I'll give you that Iraq wasn't the great terrorist breeding ground that Afghanistan was, but the original reason for going in was a combination of WMD's and terrorists. The WMD's were not there, thankfully, but that doesn't make the Iraqi's election any less legitimate.

And Wide, what's wrong with democracy at the barrel of a gun? Worked for the US! I don't think this is a sham democracy that we're seeing. The people who were elected weren't all Baathists, but Shi'ites and Kurds, secularists and religeous. The election was a success because the results were not one party!

Wide, you do have a good point about lot's of people wanting freedom all over the world. Hopefully, this thing will spread across the ME to Africa (Libya, Algeria are more democratic now than before 2001) and then to China and North Korea.