Charley,
Idealism is admirable, commendable even but people are too different for it to work.
What follows is an opinion.
Personally I feel Bush gets a lot of unnecessary stick over Iraq. I don't know the man so who am I to say whether his deeds are done out of warped intentions or sincere belief they are for good. But I am only a man who doesn't profess to have the answers, only some opinions, possibly based on half truths and propoganda. Too many are quick to castigate the man but why is he so wrong? I don't mean 'is he?', but 'why?'
Should Saddam have been allowed to continue to rule the Iraqi people with brutality and genocide? It appears that might well have been the preferable evil. I'm sure the Sunni Arabs would have preferred it so. Whereas the Shi'ites and Kurds might beg to differ.
Either way, if you Charley were an Iraqi woman you certainly wouldn't be allowed to voice such opinions in a public forum.
We have differing views, probably many, and I feel fortunate for that. Long may we be able to debate them.
Well, until you realise you're wrong!
Gary shuffles away with that pain in his head, having thought for longer than the tablets normally allow. The doctors will not be best pleased!