basically, Saddam Hussein was the bought and paid for minion of the US for a quarter of a century and having failed to perform his duties to US interests in a pleasing and obedient manner, it was time to replace him with a real professional. You don't have to be in the country physically to be a despot. By definition, any totalitarian imposition of absolute rule upon a country from within or without constitiutes a dictatorship and is the antithesis of democracy. The US didn't decide that Iraq needed democracy, it decided that it needed a new dictator and who could you possibly trust more than yourself. George has just taken the game of lawn darts a little too far.

I only post this to give those who have some stored up venom to spew, a target.*BG*