[marshmallow]

The country which has done most to "destablize" Iraq is the USA with this crazy invasion. Whatever else Iraq was under Hussein, it was stable.

Now we're threatening Iran and Syria and sending more troops?

This is getting way out of control for a conflict which was supposedly "over" in 2003. Bush is a man of poor judgment. Invasion was a bad call and now he's going from bad to worse. So much for Jim Baker's recommendations.

I'd be hanging out for 2008 except that the leadership alternatives on offer then are likely to be even worse. We're in a mess.

[steel_resolve]

You should be ashamed of your position. Iraq was stable? Iraq was a countrywide gulag where the most unspeakable atrocities were committed. And seeing how hussein was trying to reconstitute his wmd's, how long do you think it was going to stay stable? Go back to the dummie board dummie.

[wildbill]

You have a wonderfully descriptive alias.

[juliej]

Marshamallo, the countries that have destabilized Iraq are SYRIA AND IRAN! get that straight. We must go after them - we can do it over there or in front of your house.

[Blue State Insurgent]

Ah yes. The stability that the mass graves brought Iraq is, alas, no more.

[MinorityRepublican]

Saddam viewed himself as the next "Saladin", the great leader who united the Arab World.

If President Bush left him alone, Saddam would only get more powerful in which the next Democrat would be too impotent to do anything against him.

[ErieGeno]

Whatever else Iraq was under Hussein, it was stable.

Yep, stable except it attacked its neighbor Kuwait and slaughtered thousands of innocent humans? Stable, except that its leader offered $25 grand to suicide bomber families? Stable, except that its leader thumbed his nose at the world and then tried to convince everyone that he had WMD. Stable, except that his lovely sons actively ran rape rooms?

You just keep drinking that kool-aid there marshie baby.....