"Senator, for someone so nuanced, it seems to escape you that the War on Terror is international in scope. International means across national boundaries. You speak of it as if the War was just on Afghani Terrorism, and it's not. We have to go to the heart of where terrorists find succor - and it's not just a location, we are going to the heart of the ideas that give rise to Islamofascism.
Taking down Saddam and establishing a Democracy in Iraq, right there where God and everybody can see it, means that people can see that it can work for them, and will bring hope for a better future. Iraq, like Afghanistan, is a gut-shot to those who espouse the ideology that leads to terror. Democracy in Iraq will bring Democratic reforms in other countries in the region - a reverse domino theory. And the world will continue to become safer because of it."
