Let me ask you something, sir: If you lived in a community in which you had never had to make the rules, and in fact in which it was dangerous to try; if you lived in a world in which random civil violence was the rule; and then you were invaded by a foreign power whose people did not speak your language or worship the way you do, who promised you "freedom" (whatever that means), and who, instead of offering you random civil violence, could not seem to maintain civil order; if all this was done while you were only a bystander, and not a participant -- would you be ready, be willing, even understand how to work with the people who promised freedom?

Wow. It's been a whole year. Surely that should be enough time to pick up the habits of democracy in a place where it has never dwelt.

The Iraqis have not conformed to the psychological profile of them developed by all the fine group psychologists that inhabit the White House. Imagine that. I am shocked, I tell you, shocked!

You have your nerve, saying what other people deserve. Have they not lived up to your dreams? Why should they be worried about liberty and the pursuit of happiness when their present circumstance cannot even guarantee them life?