Valid point angelaa,
Has it not been proved though, that there was no link between 9/11 and Saddam Hussein? No WMD have been found either.
Here in the UK, there's now a groundswell of opposition to the war because the reason put before Parliament, which was voted on by our MPs, has turned out to be a complete fabrication, and since then Blair has tried to make out that regime change was the reason for war all along.
No, the real point I was making, was that, since Bush/Blair allegedly wanted Saddam out for killing his own people, was it really a good idea to kill another 60,000 of them, then find ourselves in a modern day Vietnam situation? Neither Bush or Blair has an apparent exit strategy, and are busy trying to inflict 'democracy', or their version of it, on an historically tribal area already hostile to Western involvement. It's a no win situation.
Saddam was being contained by the use of sanctions, since he's been ousted what we have is chaos, lawlessness and killing on a scale that may be difficult to stop. Containment was working and insurgency wasn't a problem, but it's all changed now, and we've given extremists more excuses to target both of our countries by our government's policies.
It just seems a sad, sad situation that both our countries have blundered into it, gung-ho, seemingly without a thought for how it will all end. If they had a plan, it's been badly misjudged, and not maintaining the moral high ground (Guantanemo, Abu Graib, Rendition) has left us open to all kinds of criticisms which we just can't defend.
And of course, the very cynical would argue that the real reason for going to war all along was oil, and that's why Iran are next on the list.
Sorry, i've gone completely off topic.