Iraq was only the beginning - unless we go into Iran as well can we really lance the boil; the attack wa too little too late, allowing most of the WMDs to be moved abroad.

Iraq was possibly the worst move we could have made, firstly with the conditions imposed on them and foriegn forces nearby they where a threat to no one, except perhaps thier own people, secondly if fundamentalist islam really is the object of the war on terror going for perhaps one of the more secular states (iraq pre invasion) is pure stupidity.

Iraq war was done to get rid of saddam, free up iraqs oil reserves, secure contracts for domestic companies such as oil related or rebuilding and finally to setup a democracy. The last one is perhaps the only valid reason but it was thrown in as little more than an afterthought.

If we had not commited ourselves to Iraq we would be in a better position to negotiate with Iran, Musharref would not have been in such a bad position in pakistan, perhaps he could have lasted longer, we would be in a better position in this current conflict with georgia and russia, and we wouldn't have driven a generation of young muslims to the recruiters

I have just wrote all this and now all of a sudden im getting a strong feeling you were being sarcastic.... im sure you were against iraq war, and your gauntanamo reasoning is suspect at best...