The fact is
The Neo-con miscalculated where they thought if the stand firm the whole world will follow and Dubya saw glory of getting rid of teh grazy Islamists by attacking a secular state. by the way we all know who created those Islamists.

As of today, I pray taht Iraq will stabilize soon and whomever win the election will find a good exit stategy from Iraq.

Then, let's kick Syria's derrier lol

Mo

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>Saddam had money - enough to buy the Chirac government, the UN officials administering oil for food, and sweeten the Russians and Chinese. But more importantly - he had the money to *buy* a nuke - from N Korea most likely, rogues in Pakistan or Russia possibly. If there was even a whiff of that Israel would melt Baghdad into a sheet of glass. Anyone who can't figure that out doesn't understand they dynamics of the region.
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>The justification for the war had to be reduced to bumper sticker size so it would fit into the 20 seconds of attention the average american gives to foreign policy, but for the neo-cons who pushed for it, Kenneth Pollack laid it out as a very compelling case, and the strategic arguements were compelling.