From Victor Davis Hanson:

How did a serious country, one that endured Antietam, sent a million doughboys to Europe in a mere year, survived Pearl Harbor, Monte Cassino, Anzio, the Bulge, Tarawa, Iwo and Okinawa, the Yalu, Choisun, Hue and Tet, come to the conclusion — between the news alerts about Britney Spears’ shaved head and fights over Anna Nicole Smith’s remains — that Iraq, in the words of historically minded Democratic senators, was the “worst” and the “greatest” “blunder,” “disaster,” and “catastrophe” in our “entire” history?

Even with all the tragic suffering, our losses, by the standard of past American wars, have not been unprecedented, especially given the magnitude of the undertaking — namely, traveling 7,000 miles to remove a dictator and foster democracy in the heart of the ancient caliphate. This was not a 1953 overthrow of an Iranian parliamentarian. Nor was it a calculated 1991 decision to let the Shiite and Kurdish revolts be crushed by Saddam. And it was most certainly not a cynical ploy to pit Baathist Iraq against theocratic Iran. Instead, it was an effort to allow an electorate to replace a madman.

And did the effort work? No. Iraq is now not ruled by a madman, but my madmen.

Yes, the effort worked, since the madman can not hide projection of power within a state.

Creating a succession to a dictatorship is not easy.

The effort is not done yet.

If we would have done nothing then we would have allowed him to flaunt the world by bribing the UN with OIL dollars while building the next version of a gangster lifestyle.

eventually a gangster has to be taken in for questioning.

It was a bad policy to support him in the past(Saddam).

It was a bad policy to not take him out when he overstepped the intent of the cease fire to kill Shiite and Kurds in the first gulf war.

This is what happens whenwe do not finish the job, and it will happen again.

Do you really believe that Al;-Queda was not working with Saddam?? They are in every country of this world, why not Iraq?

All it takes is one or two projects for mayhem to ensue .

The anthrax incident has still not been solved.

It could have easily been AlQ and Iraq (which had Anthrax).

the 9/11 commission found no evidence Al Qaeda and
Hussein were working together.