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And most of the terrorists killed in Iraq could have been killed in Afghanistan for a much lower cost.

I'm not saying that the liberation of Iraq was necessarily a bad thing, not at all. Where the Bush Administration screwed up was allowing Tony Blair and other professional delay-artists to waltz us through the whole U.N. charade which allowed Saddam time to prepare, and allowed enough time to move materials and what-not from Iraq into Syria. We should have deadlined Saddam in 2002, instead of wasting a year dancing the Resolution Tango. Nevertheless, once Iraq was liberated, we reaped additional benefits in that Libya's Colonel Gadhafi saw the handwriting on the wall and voluntarily gave up his nuke program to the U.S. and the UK, rather than risk an involuntary regime change.

And it is convenient to forget that had we not disposed of Saddam like the garbage he was, that we would now have not one, but TWO rogue states in the Middle East (Iraq and Iran) racing to achieve a nuclear capability first. Iraq and Iran had already been at war for 8 years, there was no way Saddam would have permitted Ahmadinejerk to obtain a nuke and a strategic advantage over Iraq.

Once Saddam was gone, we should have been using a steamroller on any and all opposition, especially that puke Muqtada al-Sadr, we should have waxed his ass the first time he looked cross eyed at us, and made an example of him.