[WhiskeyPapa]

And completely unnecessary

Spoken like someone who did NOT live in Saddam's Iraq.

Saddam torturing or murdering people under his control in Iraq did not impinge on our vital national interests. Or maybe you wanted to have 793 KIA and $500,000,000,000 deficits.

Wake up.

Walt

[Petronski]

Your rhetoric is a long series of nonsequiturs. Did we spend $500 billion dollars on Iraq? Perhaps you have a citation?

You have no mind for strategic thought. IRAQI FREEDOM is a response to an intersection of many US interests (like liberating the population, rooting out al Qaida tumors, establishing a stabilizing presence in the Gulf, capturing or killing Saddam, etc.). In the process, we've exposed a massive fraud against US taxpayers perpetrated by the UN, to the benefit of 'allies' like France (whose fickleness or outright emnity has been demonstrated once again).

I think strategic thought is beyond your comprehension. And after all, since you're already free, who cares about anybody else?

I got my freedom, says WP. I got mine.