"[..] gets turned into a project to rebuild Iraq into a western liberal democracy [..]" It's like the third time in a week that I read this nonsense somewhere.

"[..] gets turned into a project to rebuild Iraq into a western liberal democracy [..]" It's like the third time in a week that I read this nonsense somewhere. Obviously,Iraq was not invaded "to bring democracy". Also there is the assumption that the people that make this decisions care at all about democracy, you get to kill half a million people and still be the good guys: "See? we bombed them because we wanted to bring democracy, too bad they were not ready for it. Maybe it was a mistake but done with the best of intentions!"