For those of you who are still unsure about what moral clarity is

[John Kilduff]

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Victory already happened in Iraq. When they hung that Mission Accomplished banner, that should have been the end. Had this administration not been so cowardly that they felt compelled (in the face of bleeding-heart criticism) to redefine the mission from "overthrowing Saddam Hussein" to "liberating the Iraqi people and spreading democracy" we'd have been out a long time ago and thousands of US soldiers would still be alive.

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One of the underlying (though less trumpeted) goals of the Iraq War has been to spread democracy in the Middle East. The Bush administration isn't really materially re-defining much, in my opinion, by publicly bringing it more to the forefront of concerns. The goal of spreading democracy in the Middle East has long been a part of Neo-Con philosophy, along with things outlined in The Project For A New American Century.