To me its sad because it could have been handled in a way that did not leave the country completelty divided, the world community with serious concerns about the US, and imo the US less safe than we were before the invasion.

>Why is that the sad truth? I know we differ greatly on these things, but regardless of why we say we went in, I think it was good that we did. To paraphrase Babu on Seinfeld, he is a "very, very bad man."
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>>I assume Tracy was suggesting that Sadaam could be considered a terrorist because of his crimes against the Kurds. I was pointing out that the post I responded to referred to attacks on Americans. We are not that concerned about attacks on non-american citizens/interests. The point is we did not go into Iraq to help the people, we went to get him before he got us. That is the sad truth.