” ‘Iraqi democracy will succeed,’ he [President Bush] declared in a November [7] 2003 speech to the National Endowment of Democracy, ‘and that success will send forth the news, from Damascus [Syria] to Tehran [Iran]–that freedom can be the future of every nation. The establishment of a free Iraq at the heart of the Middle East will be a watershed event in the global democratic revolution.’ ”
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 41