Brad wrote:

> Agreed. The US government is not completely stupid, although we seem to be
> sometimes. :-) ...If we did that Sadam's followers (the empowered
minority)
> would have taken over immediatly.

You guys can say what you like, but long ago, say a couple of months, when
the U.S. was being accused of imperialism and of imposing our way of life on
others, the message was very different and very specific.  The U.S. had no
intention of imposing our way of life on others.  It wasn't real credible
then and it's not now, but it was the message being sold at the time.