You sound like a smart person. I for sure don't agree with everything W. does and the far right wingers that do are idiots. We are in Iraq because Saddam openly supported terrorism (10,000$$ to suicide bombers families, harboring extremists). We also went to Iraq to prevent them from restarting their WMD program. If you read all the speeches everyone said we should go BEFORE he has the weapons and that nobody knew for sure. Some people like to invent history however.