Iraq (2004) | Iraq’s Prospects for Democracy Are Good

As the international community debates [in January 2003] a military intervention to disarm Saddam Hussein, a larger moral issue is missing from the discussion: The Iraqi people’s yearning for freedom. For decades, a nation of 24 million people has been oppressed in a way that is unprecedented since Hitler and Stalin. As the world considers regime change in Iraq, it should recognize that it faces a remarkable opportunity to change the fate of the Iraqi people for the better. This also could have dramatic repercussions beyond Iraq.

Removing Saddam Hussein would liberate the Iraqi...

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