It was a nation ran by a ruthless dictator and his tribe ruled. Tell you what as soon as we leave the radical Clerics will put one as bad or 10 times worse. And guess what? He'll have a nice new country and equipped Army all trained by guess who? Didn't we learn anything from the first time we tried that there?
I see no chance we will be leaving anytime soon given the crucial role the area plays in our National Security. We are still in Germany and Korea half a century later and this is far more complex than either.
"Didn't we learn anything from the first time we tried that there?" What the hell is that idiocy supposed to mean? Are you claiming WE set up Saddam? That is a popular LIE the Left loves but there is no truth in it.