[Carry_Okie]

The only real justification for a war in Iraq is if the US intended to dispense with the 'axis of evil' in its entirety, from Baghdad, to Tehran, to Pyongyang and not necessarily in that order. If I had my druthers there would have been a brief stop in Islamabad to pick up their nuclear arsenal along the way.

Otherwise we'd have been better off sitting tight to let Saddam worry about the Mullahs while focusing upon clearing out the enemy within, which we needed to do in either case.

[DB]

Bush thought if an Arab country was freed from its tyrant ruler that its people would embrace freedom. And that it would be contagious and spread throughout the Middle East. He just forgot one thing - they’re Muslims. They don’t seemed to value freedom or self rule much.