Cry me a river MAE
Your view is so narrow.
Starting a war in the Middle East claiming we were ousting a baad dictator doesn't fly. The EXCUSE was WMD's, remember?
Actually this adminisitration (a few hawks) had this planned according to the Project of the New American Century a year or two before.
All they needed was an excuse.
Starting a war in the Middle East was a baad idea from the get-go, unless you're a Born Again Christian like GWBush and a have a sense of megalomania to go along with inherited, all inclusive power.
If we're supposed to fight "genocide, then why aren't we in Rwanda?