Paul Bremer spoke yesterday, and Andrew Sullivan has posted a bulleted list of accomplishments in Iraq that have made the quality of life begin to exceed that which was under Saddam's Stalinist terror - life that will only get better each day.

Sullivan remarks "It's simply beyond me how anyone can describe this war as about 'oil' or about 'imperialism' or about 'greed' or 'militarism.'"

It's simply beyond me how opponents of this action can sigh that we should have waited for U.N. action that would never have come, for a passing grade for Saddam from Hans Blix, a political assault shortly afterwards from France et al to end inspections and lift sanctions - spelling the end to the first war between Saddam and the free world, with Saddam as victor. And I don't understand how so-called humanitarians could wait and allow torture chambers and a horrific police state to continue indefinitely. Mass graves may not be on timetables; does that matter? And the silly counter that many more odious regimes exist in the world - and therefore our singling out of Iraq smacks of hypocrisy - falls flat on the challenge of how the United States and her allies choose to act in that regard: do we free them all, one by one, as our forces are able - or do we sit back and do nothing in the name of consistency? Those who would choose the latter are, thankfully, losing the argument as the truth of Iraq before and after the fall of Saddam is told.

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