President Bush is doing, and has done, a terrible job at selling the Iraq War - Operation Iraqi Freedom. This opinion piece by Rumsfeld aid Douglas J. Feith shows his view that the security threat of Saddam was not just Saddam's WMD, but also his support for terrorism. The original goal was to stop Iraq's gov't from supporting terrorism, with freedom and democracy mentioned but never the centerpiece. [In my view it should always have been more emphasized -- regimes change into something.] After the invasion, when WMDs were not found, the rhetoric changed to supporting democracy and nation-building as primary. This very short article is adapted from an important, but mostly media ignored book: "War and Decision: Inside the Pentagon at the Dawn of the War on Terrorism" He rightly concludes: "But the most damaging effect of this communications strategy was that it changed the definition of success. Before the war, administration officials said that success would mean an Iraq that no longer threatened important U.S. interests – that did not support terrorism, aspire to WMD, threaten its neighbors, or conduct mass murder. But from the fall of 2003 on, the president defined success as stable democracy in Iraq."