What scares me more than anything is that you and millions of others actually believe this war mongering credo. The people we are "fighting" in Iraq are Iraqi's that don't want us there. They think we are after their oil and are pissed because it's the only damn resource they have that is worth a pile of beans.
There are terrorists in every country. Including the good ol' US of A. We should have done it like the old days. Just take out Saddam in a sniper type operation and replace him with a puppet for the United States. That way when the REAL threat, Iran, rises up and decides to test our country's manhood, we could have saved on troop transport, jet fuel costs and tank transport and launched an operation right from Iraq.
Instead we police the streets of Bagdad, hauling off Iraqi civilians in the middle of the night, and use questionable tactics to force them to divulge information, truth be damned. This thing is such a cluster!@#$ at this point there is no readily available solution. One thing is for certain, they don't want us there and they are pretty damn set about making sure we don't stay.