Check your facts on Afghanistan and Iraq post-invasion. Here's a good start:

"The editor of a women's rights magazine in Afghanistan has been arrested after publishing articles deemed blasphemous."
news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4310024.stm

You might also want to educate yourself on women's rights in our "friends" Saudi Arabia and Israel, and compare those to Iraq prior to invasion.

If you think we are fighting in the middle east to bring "freedom and democracy" to the people, look at what type of government was installed back into Kuwait after ousting Saddam the first time. It you think we're there to fight terrorists, google "Allawi school bus cinema mosque" and read up on our good friend Iyad Allawi.