Iraq (2004) | Iraq Should Have a Secular Democracy

No one wants a war in Iraq less than the Iraqi people. But we don’t have the luxury of being anti-war. For the past 35 years, the Baathist regime has been waging war against Iraqis. We know there can be no peace without the military liberation of Iraq. The brutality of Saddam Hussein’s regime leaves Iraqis and the civilised world with no other option.

And so, not for the first time, a persecuted people is asking for help in dislodging a dictatorship. But we also ask that the United States protect and nurture a postwar Iraqi democracy. The [2003] US-led campaign must be about...

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