What the flock are we doing in Iraq?
Apparently, Backward Baby Bush already knew that the U.N. inspectors had found no WMDs under Saddam's control. But he had to do something quickly to deflect American attention from the true perpetrators of 9/11: his family's buddies in the energy business,
Saudi Arabia. The planning, financing and execution were performed primarily by Saudis, with a member-by-marriage of the royal family at the top of the management pyramid.
So he chose Iraq as his scapegoat, since his family had always had a hard-on for Saddam after he failed to roll over for his almost-equally incompetent daddy.
That's how we got there, and that's why we're still there. Because a President with pre-senile dementia couldn't figure out a better way to protect his family and he didn't care what his decision might do to this country. By any rational analysis, he should have been prosecuted for treason.
Imagine if he had threatened to bomb Riyadh and Mecca instead of Baghdad and Kabul. Who doesn't believe that King Abdullah knew exactly where bin Laden was at every moment? He would have had Osama's head delivered to the White House service entrance in a FedEx truck within 36 hours. And
we would have saved three trillion dollars (to date), salvaged what little stability the Middle East had, left thousands of good people alive, and not made ourselves the laughingstock of the world.