i'm not usually a big fan of TIME, but i happened to see a column in the latest issue that was a good piece of work. people came up with plenty of reasons to oppose the war in iraq, usually saying that the u.s. lied about it's motives and that we were going in for the wrong reasons. however, after the first free democratic elections in the country in fifty years on jan. 31, most of those reasons for opposition look even more transparent than they did before. say what you want about whether or not saddam had WMDs, we said we were going to create a democratic iraq, and we did just that. despite how incredibly underhyped the whole election was, the point is it happened, and for those 8 million or so people, it was amazing. it's time for everyone to get off their high-horse of opposition and admit that whether they supported the invasion or not, good came out of this.
you can find the article on time's website here.
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