Why We Fight Page #7

that maybe you can now assassinate

people from very hard place.

First of all, if it's a fixed

target like a building...

you have the time to understand its location.

The next hardest target is

one that moves around...

and a single hardest target

of all is a human being.

Sometimes, before you can

bring about democratic change,

you have to remove the

obstacle to democratic change.

You have to remove Saddam Hussein, because...

there is no hope for

democracy with Saddam there.

The point in many ways

for these guys wasn't just

to target Saddam, it was to

transform the Middle East.

They wanna take the US military and go in and...

show up American interest in

the key area of the world.

And that's their vision.

They wanna spread democracy around

the world on the point around Baghdads.

- Do you want Iraq to be like America?

What can I say? Some people

do and some people don't.

I want American streets,

her gardens, her buildings.

That's what I want.

In the beginning we stood against America,

but there are people...

...who were welcoming America.

They said, 'America is a democracy

and really they will liberate us.'

Before the war, frankly,

many of us were clapping.

'Live, Live Bush!'

'Die, Die Saddam!'

'Live, Live Bush!'

'Die, Die Saddam!'

I think most Americans don't

want to police the world,...

...but I think most Americans

understand that if we don't...

at least help to police the

world then no one's going to.

Where the debate and controversy begins...

... is how far does the United

States go, when does...

it go from a force for good

to a force of imperialism?

People complain a lot about American

arrogance and American power.

But the great threat for the future is not

American power or American strength.

It would be American weakness

and American withdrawal.

They do believe that this is not only for

the long term benefit for the United States...

... but it's for the long term benefit

for everybody else as well.

We'll bring them American values,

prosperity, peace, all the rest of it.

But the way we're gonna do that is to take over,

even more than we did it at

the height of the cold war.

Three, two, one.

Fire.

After the second World War the United States

literally divided the world up into commands.

And some American officer was

responsible for every region of the world.

There was the subdominant theory that

if any of these places fall to communism,...

... then the next place, and the

next place, and the next place...

will fall as well. And the next

thing you know they're in Missouri.

Once upon a time your hometown was safe.

But not now. It is possible for a rocket...

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