[Grut]

For all you folks who missed the point, the Iraq war isn't the GWOT, it's what's replaced the GWOT. It's as though, after D-Day, we stopped the war until we got France straightened out.

The Bush administration has fallen into the classic error of letting the alligators distract them from draining the swamp. I expect we'll eventually succeed in Iraq but it won't matter because the focus of the war will have been lost.

[HawaiianGecko]

For all you folks who missed the point, the Iraq war isn't the GWOT, it's what's replaced the GWOT. It's as though, after D-Day, we stopped the war until we got France straightened out.

I think Iran and the GWOT have been "job one" since "day one" with President Bush.

Iran is a good sized country with a large army and a sophisticated and educated population. A war with the premier perpetrators of Islamic terrorism is no small feat. But, right now we have a  combat toughened military whereas the last combat Iran saw was sixteen years ago. We won't have to cover our flank on the West worrying about Hussein's Iraq and in fact now have bases there along with some 300,000 newly trained Iraqis many of whom hold some fairly serious grudges against Iran. We have bases in the North in Turkey, new bases in several of the "???-STANS" of the former soviet bloc to the North, Afghanistan with current U.S. bases to the East, a friend in the President of Pakistan to keep them on the sidelines and India who would love to exert more influence in central Asia. Put a handful of carrier battle groups to the South and Iran is in fairly sh?t shape.

In conclusion, I don't think I or President Bush have missed the point at all.

 

[Rome2000]

Youre saying the Saddam Hussein regime was not a terrorist state?

They didn't supply money to suicide bombers and paint American planes with AA radar for 10 years straight?

They weren't the #1 anti american antagonist state in the mideast after the fall of the Taliban?

Saddam wasn't a terrorist, is that what you are saying?