[kaylar]

What about the reports that SH was a hero to the entire Islamic world for "standing up to" the west, as well as being possessed of the only decent-sized army in the region? While it is true that SH's Iraq was "heretically" secular (as we see in the articles on the recent attacks on "unislamic" businesses and nonmuslim minorities in it-I hope THAT situation is under control), I can still see why , if it's true GWB wants to remake the entire ME (which is supposedly his ambition, per any number of analyses I've read), he'd start with Iraq and not with other, more openly terrorist-supporting countries in the region. Especially if it's true that The Plan, all along, was to set up new bases in Iraq from which to attack those very countries in their turn (assuming they don't crack down on terrorists within their borders before GWB does it for them) .

[ContentiousObjector]

I personally think the whole thing is a joke, Iraq was a 100% secular and westernized society, Saddam was not a good guy but he was a million times better than the next guy.

The war in Iraq was about politics, The entire appeal of Bush is this wartime president thing he has going for himself, without war he is nothing. He goes back to being the loser he was on September 10th

If this little game doesn't work out the way it was hoped, in place of Iraq your going to end up with another islamic terrorist state in the middle east.

There is a reason why Saddam was so popular back in the 1980's