They know we're going to bomb anyone we damn well want to. Let's just assume that they are on the path to joining the nuclear club and decide whether or not we're okay with this happening.
We really have been wasting our time and our fighting capability in Iraq. The elections this week are certainly not going to resolve the deep internal divisions of that country, and our marines rebuilding schools in order to win "hearts and minds" is just plain silly. The Iraqis are going to solve their own political and security problems, and they'll have to do it without us if they are ever going to stand up by themselves. We need to pull out to the borders, and start turning our attention to Iran and Syria. We should have done that over a year ago.
We aren't in the ME to nation build, we're there to protect our interests. The bigger threat has always been from Iran, we really should have started with them after securing Afghanistan.
setting up iraq as a staging point for us/ israel troops to invade iran isn't a good enough reason to help set up a nation? wasting time in iraq so we already have people there that have wartime experience and are right next door isn't a good enough reason?