I have long believed that perhaps the true intention of invading Iraq was to ultimately make it easier to take on Iran. By being in Iraq, we already can set up the staging point for such an attack.
I agree. Just look at how Iran is now basically surrounded.
Or Syria. But in either case it's only important for a staging area if you want to put boots on the ground and that is something I think we'll never do. Otherwise, it's a pretty easy flight from almost anywhere our B2's or even B52's are based to drop some large ordnance including Daisy Cutters or nuclear bunker busters. Don't think we won't use 'em either. Lots of loud condemnation for this option. However, it's only overt uses of nukes that will get the U.S. in trouble with certain other countries. Do you really think the Iranians could ever prove that one of our stealth bombers dropped a nuclear bunker buster that burrowed deep into the ground and detonated? We could just get on TV and say "We told you nuclear bombs are dangerous, now one of your so-called peaceful installations blew itself up." Since there would be so much of their radioisotopes contaminating the site, they could not even determine the weapon's "signature." Point made. Problem stopped. Liberals and UN continue to bleat like the sheep they are. Order cheese to accompany whine.
Until all the obfuscation and disinformation perpetrated by the MSM, Joe Wilson, the Democrat party, and all the other anti-Bush shills, most thinking people understood that one of the rationales for invading Iraq was to establish a base for further action, if it were needed, in the Middle East. Just a glance at a map reveals how strategically-important Iraq is to winning the War On Terror.
Not thst the media would bother covering that. It might distract them from their indepth reporting of Cindy Sheehan's latest antics.
With credit to another Freeper:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear."
Marcus Tullius Cicero,
Roman Statesman
Speech in the Roman Senate - 42 BC
The traitors:
John Kerry
Bill & Hillary Clinton
Harry Reid
Howard Dean
Ted Kennedy
Tom Daschle
Chuck Schumer
Jesse Jackson
Al Sharpton
ABCCBSCNNNBCNPR
Academia
Hollywood
... the list is endless.
Um, we're building another large base in the Middle East. Don't know exactly where, but supposed to be up and running in less than 90 days.