Tony Blair, our more eloquent counterpart in Europe sums up our goals in Iraq quite nicely. Thanks go to Zarq at LiveJournal, otherwise known as the Brother-in-Law.

Why we must never abandon this historic struggle in Iraq

If we succeed - if Iraq becomes a sovereign state, governed democratically by the Iraqi people; the wealth of that potentially rich country, their wealth; the oil, their oil; the police state replaced by the rule of law and respect for human rights - imagine the blow dealt to the poisonous propaganda of the extremists. Imagine the propulsion toward change it would inaugurate all over the Middle East.