Its tangled and twisted at this point 9/11 changed things.
We need to step up as a nation
Listen ever since WW2 up till Slick Wille or maybe Poppy Bush we kept a pretty good lid on things by maintaining a strong military posture. 9/11 caught or readiness level at ZILCH. Rather than address those issues and our ever shrinking military our POTUS has been off on a Power Grab kick for newer and bigger government programs that simply make it harder and more intrusive in law abiding citizens lives. His USAG is a menace to our freedoms in his own right. In that respect the terrorist are winning as we are allowing our leaders to scare us into surrendering our freedoms and privacy to Big Brother.
Personally I'm more worried about China than I am Iraq. Iraq has no Army as such, no Air Force as such, and no production capabilities as such. A good Borders and entry policy would take care of a lot of that threat if not all of it on our own soil. But it isn't being done.
Watch Iraq while Bush and others sell us out on places like China. Ever hear of diversion? The war in Iraq should have been over and done two years ago with Iraq in ruins. The longer it drags out the more we pay attention to it and less to other just as serious or more serious issues like Bush selling us out to third world nations like China and Mexico in his insane trade policies.