One of the "selling" points that "W" has used is that regime change in the region would foster more democracies. Apparently a cabinet member, in his memoirs, disagrees:

“It is naïve to think that if Saddam had fallen, he would necessarily have been replaced by a Jeffersonian in some sort of desert democracy where people read The Federalist Papers along with the Koran. Quite possibly, we would have wound up with Saddam by another name.”