[sam_paine]

Iraq is probably the one country the US could most easily invade and occupy after afghanistan

On the other hand, think of where we'd be today with Kimmy going nuts and still having Saddam active over there.

You can say that NoKor is taking the advantage of us being in Iraq to wreak mischief.....but then you could also guess that had the USA gone hard after Kimmy instead of Iraq- that Saddam might've stepped up his meddling in Palestine/Israel, or who knows what over there.

As Billy Joel said, "We didn't start the fire..."

[elli1]

Boils down to our being in Iraq is to keep tempers in check in the oil producing world and to keep the islamonuts from shutting down the 21st Century. Economically, defensively,...

[KoRn]

"had the USA gone hard after Kimmy instead of Iraq- that Saddam might've stepped up his meddling in Palestine/Israel, or who knows what over there."

The fact is we had a few guys that had to go down, and there was no easy way to do it. As soon as either Kim or monkeyboy in Iran is gone this will get ALOT easier.