The dumbest idea was to go to Iraq and overthrow Saddam
The second dumbest idea was to pull out
When you find yourself in a hole -— stop digging.
I wanted the US to go in and take the oil.
W should have welcomed Iraq as the newest territory of the US and taken the oil.
The intelligent idea was to take sufficient space to build a major military complex in Iraq and a military seaport in Basra, then take the oil, all of it, to finance long term our base and operations. Even the Iraqis would have respected us much more had we done that and all of this crap that is ripping up the whole ME and back through Central Asia would not be happening.
It was no less dumb than to attack Iraq following its Kuwait invasion. Why did Bush the 1st and the press think we had a moral obligation to return a kingdom to autocratic absolute monarchists? His presumed next conquest, Saudi Arabia, would have done the World a favor.