her up because then you'd be responsible for helping every old lady who fell? Freeing the Iraqis -- i.e. removing Saddam Hussein -- doesn't in any way make us responsible for freeing every country from every dictator. Perhaps in freeing the Iraqis the people around the world who still live under dictatorship will be inspired to fight for themselves. Based on your logic, we should do nothing to help anybody ever, for if we help so much as one person one time then it's therefore policy that we'll do it for everybody. THAT's what I call weak at best. Freeing a citizenry from an oppressive (either of its own people, outsiders, or both) government is the most noble reason I can think of for going to war. It's the reason we have the freedom to say so in this country.