Spread of Democracy

Reuters-Iraq to free 2,500 but no "Saddam loyalists"

"Those who will be released will be people who are not Saddam Hussein loyalists or terrorists or anyone who has Iraqi blood on their hands," said Maliki, who took office on May 20 at the helm of a U.S.-backed government of national unity.

Because if we weren't dismantling a state sponsor of terrorism and we didn't go because of WMD's, then we must have gone there to spread democracy. One of the corner stones of a free and democratic society is to lock up all the people with different political views from your own.