In spite of my familiarity with your mighty newspaper, which I have followed closely for nearly two decades, on occasion you surprise me. But dragging George Bush’s “Arab freedom agenda” out of the historical closet in connection with the uprising in Egypt is the greatest surprise so far (“Was George Bush Right?” February 5, 2011). “Did not Bush topple Saddam Hussein,” you ask out of the blue, “a far more monstrous dictator than Hosni Mubarak?” As you concede a few paragraphs later, “precious few” Arabs, and “rather few” Europeans, believe that Bush invaded Iraq “for democracy’s sake.” By implication, you believe that this is what “quite a few” Americans actually believe. As well as “not so few” Asians and South Americans, perhaps. But, and here is my most sincere question, do you really believe that Bush invaded Iraq for democracy’s sake?