Wow, what a thorough, poignant, and articulate argument you made 22375. I think you personally should be making the monumental decisions that affect millions of people in the present and the forseable future. You could obviously know when to preemptively act to protect the strategic needs of a superpower and head off looming threats to society. Who cares that all available intelligence indicated that those weapons that were used just 15 years ago still existed. Who cares that Iraqi defectors were coming out the woodwork claiming that they were working on the WMD programs. You would have know that they were lying, desperately trying to get rid of Saddam. You would know that there was no possible way that Saddam would hide these weapons from the world. Because youre a brilliant armchair world leader and you have been wrongly ignored for too long. And you have correctly deduced that the real reason the US invaded Iraq was they want the oil. Right now they are probably filling up massive container ships for free and shipping them to Texas. Forget that billions of US taxpayer $'s are being spent just trying to get the infrastructure of Iraq back to productive levels, long neglected due to Saddam's insane military spending. But you knew that.