We invaded Iraq to change a totalitarian, despotic regime, and we have been successful there.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.
In liberating Iraq, we have rid the nation and the rest of the world from the danger of Saddam Hussein.
We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.
We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
The liberation of Iraq, which is already hard to justify from the perspective of American interests, at least had the virtue of freeing Iraqis from a brutal dictator. Despite all the anarchy and violence, life has gotten better for most Iraqis.
Our main goal as Iraqi people is to drive the occupation out in any way.
Militarily, we succeeded in Vietnam. We won every engagement we were involved in out there.
We are a country that has many friends, many allies, when we operate in the world, we operate with friends and allies that's been true for decades and if we wind up going to war in Iraq it will be true in Iraq.
If we have a chance of succeeding and bringing stability and democracy to Iraq, it will mean learning from our mistakes, not denying them and not ignoring them.
We went into Iraq because Iraq posed a threat to the stability of the region and was engaged in the process of trying to develop weapons of mass destruction and had links to terrorists.