I am not saying we have failed. I am asking how an Islamic regime will benefit us.
On the constitution - I don't have an answer.
I did not realize sanctions were about to be removed, can you provide a link about this? I would certainly have been against it.
The only way I'll be able to see if removing Saddam was in our best interests is to see what the new government brings - if it brings an alliance with Iran, then no. If it is friendly to the US, then yes.
You began this by saying it was going to be ruled by Islamofascists. You are a fraud and a waste of time. The truth (as best we can know it right now) has been explained to you. All the good that did was to cause your rhetoric to cool a bit...from Islamofascist state to Islamic state. That is something, but you are just as ridiculous with your strawman as ever. Adios.
I did not realize sanctions were about to be removed, can you provide a link about this? I would certainly have been against it.
This is probably the least-biased link that I could find.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2003_invasion_of_Iraq
The only way I'll be able to see if removing Saddam was in our best interests is to see what the new government brings - if it brings an alliance with Iran, then no. If it is friendly to the US, then yes.
What I do not like in your above statement is that you are waiting for future events before making your present decision. Hindsight not allowed. As the President of the United States, you do not have this luxury. You have to make decisions based upon information that you have at the time. Be it Kennedy or Nixon, Clinton or Bush, these Presidents have all had to make hard decisions.
Place yourself in George W. Bush's shoes. The situation with Iraq was deteriorating. The Iraqi Liberation Act had been signed in 1998. Saddam had been paying off UN officials to get sanctions lifted. Sanctions were up for renewal in 2002. Your choice was not whether or not to remove Saddam. Your choice was how to remove Saddam.
The question that I posed was would you rather have an Iraq with a stronger Saddam or the Iraq that currently exists? Being one that grew up right in the middle of the 80's Nuclear Missle Game with the USSR and then in the 90's with Iraq constantly in the background, today's Iraq is much preferrable.
Also, for a little background info on how this whole thing is bigger than Osama and Saddam, you may want to catch the new National Geographic Special - Inside 9/11.
The Fundamentalist Islamic Movement has been fermenting for more than 20 years and Osama provided the spark to ignite it.