We have seen

tens of thousands of people take to the streets to demonstrate against

a possible United States led war against Iraq. Celebrities and politicians

stoke the anti-war rhetoric with references from everything including

the Bible.

Personally,

I don't have any problem with demonstrators. After all, our country began,

in part, with a demonstration called the Boston Tea Party. Free assembly

is an absolute, Constitutional right. I glory as an American in free speech.

It is ironic, though, that in no way could citizens of Iraq ever take

to the streets of Baghdad to protest their government's foreign policy.

And if the United States had any kind of hidden agenda, it would be that

citizens of Iraq would eventually have the right of free speech: Democracy,

is that so bad?