"Geoff, you're restating the WMD argument, but what this is about is the revisionist assertion that that wasn't the reason for war, that actually it was all about installing democracy. "
Who is saying that it is *all about* installing a democracy.
If it was *all about anything* it was getting any kind of leadership [including even Saddam the butcher] that would have followed international law.
And what part of:
"Reality: The President argued the importance of democracy taking root in Iraq before the war began. A February 27, 2003 New York Times editorial shatters the very myth the paper was perpetrating just nine months later: “President Bush sketched an expansive vision last night [in an American Enterprise Institute speech] of what he expects to accomplish by a war in Iraq. Instead of focusing on eliminating weapons of mass destruction, or reducing the threat of terror to the United States, Mr. Bush talked about establishing a ‘free and peaceful Iraq’ that would serve as a ‘dramatic and inspiring example’ to the entire Arab and Muslim world, provide a stabilizing influence in the Middle East, and even help end the Arab-Israeli conflict. The idea of turning Iraq into a model democracy in the Arab world is one some members of the administration have been discussing for a long time.” President Bush’s 2002 State of the Union made the same case…."
Didn't you understand?
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