President Bush Monday told world leaders it will be the responsibility of the whole international community, rather than the United States, to determine what kind of regime should replace Iraqi President Saddam Hussein if his government is toppled by U.S. military action, European diplomats told United Press International.
During a call to the current head of the European Union, Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen, Bush made it clear he felt "not his responsibility to define" who or what would replace the Iraqi president, according to one diplomat.
Oliver Willis puts it pretty well:
The best way to stop terrorism is democracy, but we have been lax in bringing it to Afghanistan - and have already decreed that after Saddam Hussein is deposed as leader of Iraq - that isn't our problem either. The grievances of terrorists have no basis in reality, but now our actions (destroying a country, then running away) make their claims almost true.