Could it be because we purchase our oil from them? ( And yes, I hope that that will soon cease as well as the millions/billions in aid we send to the ME countries ).
Or could it be that the Middle East sponsors terrorism that is very threatening to our way of life?
We aren't in the middle east, if by that you ask why we are militarily engaged in the region. We do have interests there, and a vitally important alliance with the only democratic government in the region, and we are engaged in helping leaders in the middle east break their addiction to murdering Israeli citizens.
If our current involvement in lending diplomatic aid to help ease the suffering of people in the region offends you, stand by, the bubble is going up on a real US involvement in the region as early as this fall.
saddam hussein, as an earlier freeper pundit pointed out, has chosen to create a condition of war between the USA and Iraq by flouting the terms of the treaty that ended the Gulf War.
By all accounts, his having ammassed a stockpile of nuclear, chemical, and biological warfare agents poses too grave a threat to vital American interests to leave unaddressed, and this together with saddams sponsorship of al qaida and the terrorists infecting Isreal, leave us no choice but to strike saddam's regime and remove him from power.
If protecting vital national security interests abroad and protecting the American people from the depradations of foreign mass murderers strikes you as abuse of power, I recommend you visit your physician and get a prescription for a sedative in advance of next September, sir.
You're going to see American military forces remove a grave threat to our existence, and as that seems to bug you no end, I suggest you take my advice.
I've heard good things about valium.