Originally Posted by GenuineRisk

You're right, except Saddam was/is Sunni and the majority are Shiite. Shiite's are much more fundamentalist than the Sunnis.

Saddam had nothing to do with 9/11; I feel our administration hoodwinked our country into backing the Iraq invasion. That said, Danzig is right on the money about the current situation-- we've been half-assing the Iraq thing all along (not the soldiers, of course, who are showing up and doing their jobs-- the people in charge of them). But I'm scared of what will happen to the region if we pull out as things are now-- destablize further? Massacres between Shiites and Sunnis? Women's rights going the way of the Taliban? I kind of feel like, we broke it; we bought it, you know? We started this for all the wrong reasons, but now I feel like we have to finish it, but not in the current fashion. As much because we owe it to the Iraqis now as because we owe it to ourselves. But where's the $$, the manpower, the leadership? Dear God, what a mess...