Eleanor,<br><br>I disagree with those who think the USA is building an empire. I think our President is trying to make the world a safer place after 9/11. He's trying to root out the sources of evil that threaten the USA before they come to our shores. There's talk about a democracy in Iraq. Even though a democracy can be a good form of government it doesn't solve all the problems there. It's good to see the evil tyrant Saddam Huisein and his administration removed but it's got to be replaced with a good government. All democratic rule will do is provide a government ruled by the majority of the people's will. It still needs a value system. Otherwise it will be like a house built on sand without a good foundation. <br><br>Calvin Coolidge once said, "The foundations of our society and our government rest so much on the teachings of the Bible that it would be difficult to support them if faith in these teachings would cease to be practically universal in our country."<br><br>Noah Webster wrote, "The moral principals and precepts contained in the Scriptures ought to form the basis of all our civil constitutions and laws. All the miseries and evil which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery, and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible."<br><br>This is what is needed in Iraq. Iraq has been freed from her oppression but unless she discovers what these great men proclaim she will not have a strong foundation nor will she experience true freedom.<br><br><br>Wes<br>

When I survey the wondrous cross on which the Prince of Glory died, my richest gain I count but loss and pour contempt on all my pride. - Isaac Watts