There have been more attacks on the US than just those involving airplanes.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/003/378fmxyz.asp?page=1
If anything, we should have helped Saddam against the more powerful Iran.
What, and catch hell for it like McCain is catching hell for the FSA? Actually, we did help Iraq, in a very limited way, for the purposes of screwing both Iraq and Iran. We gave Iraq the locations of targets in Iran relating to Iran's nuclear program and Iraq took them out, which set back Iran a few years. But we did not want to aid the regime because it was after all a Soviet client state and then a Russian and Chinese and French customer, and it had a nasty habit of gassing people, imprisoning and torturing the children of dissidents, killing American army rangers, supporting hijackers like ANO, terrorists like the PFLP, and Ansar al islam and its European terror cells, and Abu Sayyaf which was in the 90s decapitating tourists including Americans in the Philippines, working with Sudan on illicit programs, hosting terrorist conferences in which clerics called for global jihad, running a doozy of a spy network in Europe that had a keen interest n targeting NATO and it was also stocking its embassies with weapons ...
Now there's a fellow or two no one in the press or the Democratic party ever wants to talk about - one is Ali a Timimi... who was handed a huge sentence that the press barely mentioned... and Hikmat Shakir, who had some of the most interesting pocket litter for a guy who was able to escape to Iraq ...not to mention the guy who prepared the explosives for the first attack on the World Trade Center who ended up with a nice retirement package from Saddam and a house until we came along and started bombing Baghdad...
$2,000,000,000,000 debt on China credit card to attack Iraq? A debt which can never pay off because there are no budget surpluses as far as the eye can see? Do you live your life like this? How many bankruptcies are you going to file?
So show me what we gained from attacking Iraq, except thousands of wounded vets?
I will tell you what we lost. Iran and ISIS now control Iraq and it’s oil. Obama found Saddam as an excuse to remove Qaddafi. Now Libya is gone. Egypt was next on Obama’s agenda to install radical Islam regime. We got lucky due to an anti-radical military coup in Egypt.
Yemen is gone.
A grown man admits his mistakes and moves on. But you are still clinging to justify Iraq invasion? It will go down in history as the biggest blunder of American foreign policy of the 21st century. Almost on par with the 20th century blunder of Vietnam war.