Iraq Progress Report

Advocates for liberty weigh in after three years

March 17, 2006

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1. Did you support the invasion of Iraq?

No.

2. Have you changed your position?

No.

3. What should the U.S. do in Iraq now?

With a democratically elected Iraqi government in place and Saddam's (nonexistent) threat of WMDs gone, declare victory and pull out troops with all dispatch.

Brian Doherty is a senior editor of Reason magazine and author of This is Burning Man (Little, Brown).

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David Friedman

1. Did you support the invasion of Iraq?

No. I thought it was probably a mistake, although I did not have enough information to be certain.

2. Have you changed your position?

I am now more confident it was a mistake.

3. What should the U.S. do in Iraq now?

The U.S. should leave, if possible in a way that permits the Iraqis to make arrangements that do not result in large numbers of people being killed. That might involve a de jure, or at least de facto, division of the country.