Afghanistan and Iraq are merely launching platforms for attacks against Iran. Why do you think the US wants bases in Iraq? Certainly not for the scenery, weather or to protect the tourist industry.
well, one can only hope, because using Iraq as a launching pad was always my goal for invading Iraq:
I supported this current invasion into Iraq because I thought it was a stepping stone into Saudi Arabia, Syria, and Iran. I never would have supported it knowing Iraq was the first and last stop on the tour.
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If I were Pres, I would have played hit and run all through the middle east...in the followinig order:
1) Iraq
2) Iran
3) Syria
I wouldn't have tried to establish Democracy, I simply would have destroyed all their armies.
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I vote "No", not in the way Bush did it, and not with Bush's intentions of trying to establish Democracy in Iraq. I simply would have knocked their jocks in the dirt and let them pick up the pieces.
...and I supported the invasion of Iraq in 2002, months before it happened, because I believed the stories I was reading about Bush's intentions:
