Former Undersecretary of Defense Douglas Feith at National Review Online:
When we failed to find WMD stockpiles [in Iraq], there was a stunning shift in the President's rhetoric from discussing the threats the Saddam regime had posed to discussing only the promotion of democracy. I think there were some terrible consequences that flowed from that shift in rhetoric.
It is one thing for the President to ask the American people to support a war intended to defend our own Republic, and it is something else entirely for him to ask the American people to support a war intended to promote the ideals of his speechwriting shop.