Thanks for agreeing with me Johannes......
However, while the Bush administration eats cake, we have to pay for it.
And so will our children, and maybe even THEIR children.
We shouldn't be over there in that cesspool.
It's not our birthright.
It's THEIRS.
It's not like Hussein was trying to take over the Middle East or the oil fields.
Hell, he didn't even have mass weapons, let alone WMD.

This thing stunk from Day One.
No rational person would think we could go into a Middle Eastern country and conquer it and educate them to LIKE us and LIVE LIKE us.
No, nation building should start here at home.
Put your money where your mouth is.
Keep the job markets in the country (no high-falooting CEO's), better education and infra-structure. Better futures all around.
No, what the conservatives and their think tanks do is something akin to wishful thinking.
They think the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence.
I was watching Bremer on TV yesterday saying we'd need to be in Iraq for YEARS......

And I thought "What was HE thinking in the FIRST place?" And, more important...."WHY?"
I have to agree with Joe that they need to pull their heads out of their asses.

Too late now.
This will end up being the next administration's nightmare as well.

We shouldn't have gone in without help and agreement.
They made their bed, now they have to lie in it.