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If it means the end of Saddam Hussein's regime, why shouldn't 250,000 Iraqis be willing to take a dirt nap courtesy of the American wehrmacht? Look at how well things are working out in the last regime the corrupt Bush administration changed (careful of the space):
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia_china/story.jsp? story=381093
"Afghans have . . . listened with astonishment as Americans portray their country's experience since the overthrow of the Taliban as a "success".
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"But a fear of abandonment – or at least a sharp fall-off in international support – is palpable and encompasses many international aid agency workers as well as residents. One agency official, a veteran of several previous conflicts, told The Independent: "The Pentagon and the White House have absolutely no policy on Afghanistan."
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"But, 15 months after the fall of the Taliban, the American Samson has yet to prevail. According to Col Roger King, the US military spokesman at the Bagram air base outside Kabul, there are "probably several hundred" Taliban and al- Qa'ida forces around Afghanistan and "maybe a larger number" over the border with Pakistan. Some of these forces appear to have forged links with Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a militiaman who once pocketed CIA funds to fight the Soviet Union before joining the civil war, earning a reputation for extreme brutality. He is marching under the banner of a self-declared jihad against the Americans and their allies.
"The head of the Hezb-i-Islami party, he is suspected in Kabul of involvement in numerous rocket attacks and a car bomb that killed 30 in September. Last year he narrowly missed being killed by a missile fired by a CIA Predator, an unmanned aircraft.
"There are other ominous signs. Some 400 rockets have been fired at American forces in 10 months. They find two or three caches of arms, often 107mm Chinese rockets, each week. "This place is a 100 times more dangerous than Iraq," said one US reserve officer at Bagram, a veteran of Operation Desert Storm in Iraq in 1991. "Here they are liable to toss a grenade under your vehicle at any time." A fortnight ago the Taliban issued what is thought to be its first communiqué since being removed from power. It named two senior figures – Mullah Obaeidullah and Mullah Biradar – as commanders in a new campaign to oust the Americans.
"And the international effort to help establish a meaningful central government under Hamid Karzai is also incomplete. Many of the building blocks of a viable nation – institutions capable of imposing law and order, health services, power supplies, a road network, communications, education – are often absent."
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On second thought, who cares about Afghanistan? This time, it will al-l-l-l-l-l work out. Really. Honest.
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