Regardless, invading Iraq has to considered the biggest mistake in recent US foreign policy history. If anything, Saddam kept things stable and now we have a much larger threat to the United States than we did before. Maybe Saddam would have nuked the United States or someone else by now but doubtful.

Either nuke the entire region or have dictatorships. It's a different planet, a good buddy of mine did two tours in Iraq - he told me shaking someone's hand is the ultimate sign of disrespect - because they wipe their ass with their hands.

As long as we keep oil producing countries stable that's the best we can hope for.