Iraq is a better place, absolutely worth it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The situation in Iraq will be long, it will be expensive and it will be difficult. But in the end, Iraq will very much be worth it.
For all who love freedom and peace, the world without Saddam Hussein's regime is a better and safer place.
That is the best case for Bush; that, among other things, he liberated Iraq. It is good enough for me.
Iraq is a country I came to know well and the place where I spent some of the most consequential years of my life.
The world is a better place with Saddam Hussein gone.
Well, first, the situation in Afghanistan is much better than it was. But there is no comparison between Afghanistan and Iraq. Iraq has a bureaucracy, Iraq has wealth. Iraq has an educated class of people who are positioned to come in and take over.
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.
In fact, things are moving along rather well in Iraq. Nothing is perfect, of course, and freedom is messy work. The cooperation of the three major interests in Iraq has been remarkable.
Unquestionably, the world is better off without Saddam.
America is worth fighting for ideologically.
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