In a way we are in a win-win situation. If (when) we invade Iraq, the Islamists are under severe pressure to retaliate on a significant scale. If they do so, we will unleash hell on them, and we will have all the justification we need to seize oil fields as the prizes of war. If they can't effectively respond, we dismantle them piece by piece.
In a way Bush can't lose either, because his enemies hold such preposterous positions that they are withered by the plainspoken truth. Bush is a simple man, but all he has to do is defend the record and moral standing of western civlization against those of two-bit Islamic dictatorships. The democratic opposition is warped and anti-American in impulse and action ,if not rhetoric. They will continually be stumped as Bush states obvious but rarely spoken facts in defense of the American people and way of life while the socialists cavil and quake.
Yes, this is a very good situation we're in. If we get the opportunity, how long do you think we will keep the oil fields for? I propose holding on the oil fields until our national debt is paid off!
One thing for sure, on this day next year, things will be dramatically different in the middle east!