by Patrick J. Buchanan – October 14, 2002

A war on Iraq would be “an imperialist war,” writes Paul W. Schroeder in the Oct. 21 issue of The American Conservative: “We intend to use armed force against Iraq … to acquire the power to decide who shall rule Iraq, what kind of government it will have, what kind of weapons it will develop for its own security, what kind of foreign policy it will have.”

“This is clearly imperialism,” proclaims Schroeder, “even if we claim and really believe that we are doing it for noble ends – liberation, democracy, capitalism, human rights, whatever.”