Re: Could Bush be Right?
For a moment, lets forget about WMD. The new justification is that US wants to bring democracy (to Iraq and to the region). Not just elections.
As Fareed Zakaria points out “]In Africa](http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/newsweek/042103.html), 42 of the continent’s 48 countries have held elections in the last decade, but almost none of them have produced genuine democracy.” Elections is just part I of a long road. There is a real risk that after the elections Iraq can go down in a catastrophic civil war. If that happens, the elections will be remembered more as a disaster than an accomplishment. On the other hand, it may result in a genuine leader to come up who will pull Iraq together and be a great statesman. In essence, the jury is still out. So hold on to your champaign bottles (for neocons) and your apologies (for the lefties etc), and lets see how the situation unfolds.