DougR, as a previous president once said: "read my lips." No one -- NO ONE -- agreed that Saddam was anything but evil.

But the removal of Saddam from power was not the reason that Bush invaded Iraq. Not at all. If Bush wants to talk apple pie, democracy, motherhood etc. on going into Iraq, the immediate question is: why not other countries under evil dictators?

Bush lied about his reasons for going into Iraq. It's as simple as that. You feel the Iraqis are better off than they were under Saddam. The Iraqi people don't feel that way: Saddam brutalized, tortured and killed many of them, but the US bombed all of them.

Answer one question: if the aim was to remove Saddam, why didn't they go after him directly, instead of attacking his entire country? Thousands of Iraqis died in that invasion, while Saddam had the best protection and was the safest man in the country.

The answer, of course, is oil and Halliburton, as the future will clearly show.