I survived both attacks, not just the first. But I make no claim that that makes my opinion any better than any other. I am saying the events themselves are proof of an enemy who is determined and not containable. There is no option not to fight them. The only option is where we fight them. The various tyrants of the Islamic world are many heads of the same hydra, and we do not have the option not to confront them all. Given the nature of the particular hydra head named Saddam, we had no other option than to invade and depose him.
I totally agree that we need to fight them. How one goes about that is the problem. I am very much distressed that nobody, especially Bush, is willing to address that the problem is Islam and its inherent shortcomings. Even the neocon hawks don't want to go there. There's no need to rehash pros and cons over the Iraq situation, it's been done before. My condolences for any losses suffered on the two attacks. I'm glad you made it out of there.
Saddam is/was a secularist despot with nothing in common with the Jihadists except the Muslim universal hatred of Israel.
But I would urge you to forward the hydra head idea to the Whitehouse .... they're always open to nutcase reasons for starting another war.