If the US was really committed to its ideal of "democracy", why is it doing nothing about the military dictatorship in Myanmar? Why is it letting all sorts of totalitarian injustices go unchecked in Africa? Where is its support for the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional, struggling to bring direct democracy and autonomy for the people of the Mexican state of Chiapas? Why is it allied with the dictatorship in Saudi Arabia, which kills people for being gay, and places heavy restrictions of freedom of speech? Why is it sitting back silently and watching the military occupation of Haiti instead of trying to put the exiled, democratically-elected leader back in power? What about the complete lack of democracy for the sixth of the planet that lives in the "People's" Republic of China? Where is its support for the Tibetan liberation movement? There is absolutely no difference between horrible dictatorial abuses of power in these countries than there is in Iraq, and the only reason Bush would have targeted Iraq over the others is because they were not complying with the US government's plan for the region and of course because they have oil (Iraq, formerly a faithful ally who happily bought chemical weapons from the US government, absolutely cannot be permitted to make its own policies when it holds such a valuable resource as petroleum. We must invade, we must dominate, we must make sure that everybody does exactly what the US government wants it to do, because for it, "might makes right". Welcome to the world of modern capitalist imperialism.) The US only espouses the ideal of democracy when it coincides with its economic plans for everybody.

You cannot fight for freedom for only a fraction of the world's population. Everybody deserves to be free, and movements for freedom must be supported anywhere and everywhere, not just in régimes friendly to the United States government's economic policies. The only way mankind will ever be free is if it unites, internationally, in its struggles against imperialism, capitalism, and the State, and makes for itself a society based on direct democracy, free association and socialism. Freedom cannot be given; it can only be taken.