We are all waiting on the results of the Iraqi election. Of course Iraq has had elections before, just a couple years ago they had one and Saddam Hussien won 99.9% of the vote, it makes you wonder what kind of lunatics voted against him. It looks like the Shiite and Kurd vote may be heavy and the Sunni vote will be only extremely brave people. Very sad, such a chaotic situation, we can't protect our own embassy or green zone, 150000 troops are not hardly enough, remember in the 1991 Gulf War we had 400000 troops available, we even had a French armored division helping, if Bush Sr. had decided to occupy then we would have avoided the whole ugly decade of sanctions and the UN Oil-for-Food fiasco., saving many innocent lives.

Well, everybody complains about Iraq, I suppose that's not blogable news.

Why did we need to invade when we did? Not to avoid the sandstorms, since they hit during the invasion; to avoid the heat of summer, that's the most plausible answer. The UN inspectors had found nothing by February, 2003, and their judgement has proven all too true. But the Bush adminstration had faith in their instincts, they were sure Saddam was hiding things. Now we know that the Iraqi-omnipotent Saddam had entered into a phase of madness some absolute dictators fall into and was spending most of his time writing romantic novels during his final years. He may even have thought he was developing WMDs but it has been revealed that any such program was a corrupt sham his scientists were pulling, because corruption becomes the way of life in a degenerate regime.

Many people want us to pull out immediately from Iraq, what kind of country would result from that? It is an unknown unknown.

The invasion of Iraq ranks as a major roll of the dice with history; it seems to be a Pandora's Box of history, the whole consequences cannot be known. Great just what we want for our future, major uncertainties, after 9/11 we did not need to mess up our image which was highly sympathetic with unnecessary invasions of third party countries just because they had oil, or defied the father of the current president.