It was not a mistake going to war. It has become a mistake, because we have allowed the media to run the war. We must now fight it in a politically correct manner, which is why we will eventually lose the war!
Wars must be fought with courage and as many dead enemy bodies as humanly possible. Thats how the Shites and Sunnis are fighting this war. Saddam understood this to mantain control. We need to kill both sides in the thousands to send the message to the rest that are thinking of turning 'radical'. Its sad to say, but ultra death and violence is the only thing that an Islamic mind understands. Crush thier spirit and thier will and they become lapdogs. Let them loose and they become pitbulls.
I have heard this before too, that at least under Saddam there was "stability" and he kept them "under control."
But did he? Did we get a weekly body count from a free Iraqi press under Saddam? Did we hear about it every time a few dozen Shi'ites were killed? If it was so stable under Saddam, where are all these mass graves coming from? It doesn't sound to me that it was much more stable under Saddam than it is now. He didn't control the internecine warfare. He controlled the media that reports it.