On this one I'll have to depart with Clancy. Situated between Iran and Syria, Iraq had become a hotbed of terrorist activity, with it's leader actually paying Palestinian families of suicide bombers. Hussein was passing around his funds to some pretty unsavory groups. He had to go.
Afghanistan is coming along. Iraq will too. It is disturbing to watch the lack of patience for this all to play out.
The short attention span of the American Sheeple is frightening.
Osama predicted we wouldn't have the stomach for a protracted fight...