The good news is that, in 1972, there were only forty-three free countries in the world. Today there are eighty-nine. We are about to add Iraq to the list no matter how messy that effort may seem. Americans are dying there for the same reason they died in far greater numbers to free Europe and Asia in the last century. That's what free people do. They fight and they die to free others because it is the right thing to do and because a free world is a safe world.