Brad, your comment is appreciated, but you are all over the place. Do you want the war to become even more difficult and deadly?

Last I checked, Al Qaeda had basically no presence in Iraq until we started bombing it into the stone age with no justification.You know what else has hurt our objectives in the middle east?

-Bombing a Sudanese pharmaceutical plant that supplied the country with 50% of its medications in 1998

- Putting sanctions on Iraq because Saddam didn’t comply with the UN- Those 500,000 children that died in the first 5 years definitely deserved it. Clearly they are to blame for the actions of a dictator the US helped achieve and maintain power until it no longer served their interests.

-I imagine supplying Iraq with chemical weapons and other munitions during the 8 year war with Iran probably didn’t make too many friends there.

-Speaking of Iran, maybe overthrowing their first democratically elected president in 1953 leading to 26 brutal years under the Shah probably didn’t do much for relations with Iran either.

…I could go on but I must say, looking back at 50+ years of Middle East foreign policy, you are RIGHT. The worst thing we did in regards to the Middle East, the thing that is endangering our troops and civilians is definitely a resolution about a historical injustice in the region. Killing millions, supporting dictators, supplying their enemies with weapons-> the terrorists don’t care about those things! Its the resolution the ineffective democratic leaders pushed that’s jeopardizing our image there! Brilliant.

Are you aware of what you’re saying?