Japan & Germany are not Iraq.
Why all the wishful thinking?
Saddam may be gone, but are all his 2.7 million Baath-party members?
Assassination & terror are and will
remain tools of "leadership change" in the Middle-East...You can't change 1500 years of history in a decade or two.
You Americans think that the rest of the world thinks like you; it doesn't.
Jacob