Jacob G. Hornberger of the Future of Freedom Foundation on The Ten Planks of the “Freedom” Manifesto:
Now, tell me if I have this right: It doesn’t really matter whether President Bush and his associates lied about Saddam Hussein’s “weapons of mass destruction” or exaggerated the danger — even though the reason that most Americans supported the war was the threat of imminent attack from such weapons — because the war on Iraq has brought “freedom” to the Iraqi people.
Jacob goes on to outline 10 points that illustrate the view that we've not liberated the Iraqis so much as imposed a newer, more Western version of tyranny. Read about: censorship, government control of the economy, victim disarmament, denial of due process, selection of goverment leaders by military leadership, etc. I can't reconcile any of that with freedom or libertarianism, no matter how hard I try. It sure smells like dictatorship to me. In fact, it walks and quacks like dictatorship as well. Only in this case, the dictator lives in Washington instead of Baghdad.