Whether or not Bush and Blair acted maliciously, irresponsibly, or made a mistake based on faulty but believable intelligence during a time of high anxiety for the American and British people, the people in the US and Britain are still holding elections and, by the way, the Iraquis now have an opportunity to determine their own destinies by going to the poles if their violent factions will stop THEIR tyrany. The American and British systems of government provide for a changing of those in power to prevent tyrany, and while no government is perfect this system is the best anyone has come up with and works very well. We are not being gassed or tortured by the thousands by our leaders nor are we blowing each other up by the score in the street on a daily basis, and we fought a short war against a tyrannical government which freed the Iraqi people to have the free society that we have if they will only let themselves be free. If I saw a man down my street beating and killing his own family I would do whatever I could to stop it, any decent person would, so what is so different about stopping Saddam Hussein from harming his own people and giving them freedom in the process?