Lieberman Grilled on Iraq, Stands His Ground  Lieberman gets
grilled by Pat Buchanan on his support for invading Iraq. Joe
doesn't back off an inch.  My answer is yes because Saddam was
threatening the stability of the entire region. He'd shown that
by his actions. I believe that the evidence is very clear that
he was developing weapons of mass destruction. Obviously we
don't have evidence that he had a big program. But the most
official and comprehensive report show that's true.  He was
also, the evidence shows, beginning really tactically to support
the terrorist movements that had attack us on 9/11 and today, to
make a long story short, instead of a brutally repressive
dictator in Iraq, we've got a government that was elected,
that's self-governing and the country is self-defending. By the
end of this year, we're going to have most of our troops out of
there. I think that's had a major effect on the entire region.
Iraq is now the most democratic country in the Arab world. so,
yes, I think it was the right