Doug Miller wrote in
:

In article . 201,
says...
[...]

Anyone reading the Cincinatti speech reasonably would
come to the conclusion that WMDs and terror links are the main theme
of the speech.

Anyone reading the Cincinnati speech reasonably would come to the
conclusion that the President *did*, in fact, talk about bringing
freedom and democracy to Iraq.

But you claimed that he didn't.


You are right. The president did mention freedom and democracy in the
Cincinatti speech. I was engaging in hyperbole when I said he didn't "make
a peep" about that. There is a peep there.

But the point of that speech is not that Iraq needs to be invaded in order
to spread freedom and democracy. The point of that speech is that the
President is alleging (in fairly strong language) that Iraq has WMDs and
that Iraq has significant terror links, including links to Al Qaeda.

The "spreading freedom and democracy" thing is just a postjustification by
the right -- because all of their "grave threat" reasons that were given at
the time have since been debunked.