A wild-eyed leftist refutes common Republican talking points:

"You encourage democracy over time, with assistance, and aid, the traditional way. Not how the neocons do it."

"This [invasion of Iraq] was said to be part of the war on terror, but Iraq feeds terrorism."

"There may have come a time when we would have needed to take Saddam out . . . But he wasn't really a threat. His Army was weak, and the country hadn't recovered from sanctions."

...[This guy opposed to Bush policy] does not believe, for instance, that the signs of a democratic awakening in Lebanon are related to the Iraq war. He sees the recent evacuation of the Syrian Army from Lebanon not as a victory for self-government but as a foreshadowing of civil war.

-- Brent Scowcroft, wild-eyed leftist and former Natl Security Advisor to GHW Bush, quoted in the New Yorker, Oct 31, 2005.