No, we started a war in the Middle East on the grounds they had WMD.
Bush said it was necessary and imperative.
He pushed it through against worldwide opposition.
It was an INVASION supposedly to SAVE US, not to bring "democracy" to an oppressed people.
Please, it was planned a couple of years ago by some neocons with their "Project of New American Century".
It was a business move.

When no WMD's were found (after the banks, the museums and oil refineries had been looted and secured), THEN Bush changed his preference to some hair-brained optimism with the words "freedom and domocracy". Please see the PBS link above on "The Missing Year in Iraq".

>" How anyone can justify those who oppose this with violence is beyond me. "

Excuse me? WE ARE CREATING MORE VIOLENCE TO GET THEM TO GO ALONG WITH US, WITH OUR VISION OF "DEMOCRACY".