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Indeed, a large portion of the threat posed by Iraq was its continued defiance of the US and the UN, and the effect that belligerance had on those who would seek our harm.
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Now, having dealt with that threat, the landscape has changed.
Iran is allowing the IAEA unfettered access to its nuclear sites.
Libya is abandoning its weapons programs and allowing international agencies unfettered access to
it's sites.
The war in Iraq showed the world that the US would no longer rely upon empty UN resolutions to protect itself. The war in Iraq showed the world that the US knows that a resolution is nothing without
resolve.
Regardless of one's political ideologies, one has to see that the Bush administration has achieved extraordinary foreign policy victories since it began its prosecution of the military campaigns in Afghanistan and Iraq. And the threats against Americans and free people everywhere have been weakened.