There's Yet Some "Freedom" To Be "Spread"

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said yesterday that before the United States hands over terror suspects to foreign governments, it receives assurances that they won't be tortured. But he acknowledged that once a transfer occurs, the United States has little control.

Er, isn't that the sole remaining (if retroactive) justification for the invasion of Iraq: in taking down the brutal, murderous, torturing tyrant we "liberated" the "brave people of Iraq"? Sounds like we have more than "little" control over those that choose to torture their own people, doesn't it?

Huhn, I wonder (and this is merely thinking out loud here) if there could be other factors determining which tyrants we choose to take down? Oil, clearly, isn't one of them -- Donald H. Rumsfeld said so himself.

But seeing as Iraqi democracy has already spread its wings, maybe it's time we got our ass in the gear and got busy on spreading some more freedom before people begin to wonder we've ulterior motives.

Posted by Eddie Tews at March 8, 2005 07:01 PM