[Sailormon6]

Perhaps I'm posting this in the wrong thread, but I can't find a more appropriate thread at the moment.

For those Bush-haters who don't understand the purpose of the Iraq war, you'll recall that he said he wanted to give the people of Iraq a taste of freedom, and an opportunity to vote and to freely govern themselves. He did that. They voted, and proudly displayed their ink-stained fingers for all to see. President Bush believed that, if the people of Iraq enjoyed the benefits of a democratic government, and the right to elect their own leaders, then the citizens of other mideastern nations would aspire to the same freedoms, and would replace the old despots with modern governments.

Now, while it appears that the Obama doctrine of sitting down and talking with Amadinejad has not borne fruit, the Bush doctrine is clearly having good effect in Iran. The people of Iran are fighting in the streets and dying, not for the promise of 26 virgins, but for their freedom. If the people of Iran have anything to say about it, Amadinejad and his nuclear ambitions will soon become a mere footnote to history. If democracy takes hold in Iraq and Iran, the chances are that it will break out all over the mideast, and there will be no place for tyrants like Saddam and Amajinedad, or for wannabe tyrants like Osama bin Laden.