Justin,
After reading your commentary, I felt the need to correct several innaccuracies. While a paltry #39, President Clinton’s administration did in fact fail to neutralize Usama Bin Laden when several decisive opportunities existed. The original attacks on the WTC that merely scathed the building were in fact indicative of more to come, the cancer that developed during the Clinton years.

“The current problem with Iraq is a mixture of failed diplomatic/political strategies, as well as the failed First Gulf War to quell the original problem.”
The current problem with Iraq is the Sunni and Shiite insurgency and the Iraqi military/polices’innability to combat it. When you are working on your Masters, you should look into insurgencies in Southwest Asia and Central America. See how long it takes to quell an insurgency.

“Nuclear weapons have yet to be located,”
The United States overthrew the Hussein Regime unter the pretense that there were Weapons of Mass Destruction controlled/produced by the the Iraqi Regime. While no nuclear weapons were ever located, nor unclassified intelligence to report their probable existence, there were in fact biological and chemical weapons found there. WMD’s are by definition non-descriminating. Therefore YOUR perception and the American public’s misunderstanding of the actual situation makes you think youwere deceived when you were/are actually uneducated on the matter.

“the current Iraqi government does not have the legitimacy”
Yes it is a legitimate government.

“We went into this second war under false pretenses. Need I remind everyone that, despite popular belief, Iraq was in no way a part of the attacks of September 11. The man that perpetrated these horrific events is still at large in the Middle East.”
The Second Iraqi War was to topple Saddam Hussien’s Regime. The insurgency and spread of Al-Qaida into Iraq is a SEPARATE conflict related only by the cause and effect relationship of the toppling of the regime.

I would like to hear your position on Nancy Pelosi’s success in her first 100 days as Speaker of the House.