*I always wondered why Bush went after Iraq instead of Iran which has been the most prominent instigator/aggitator in the region.*
You really had to “wonder”??? There was a small matter of violated cease-fire agreements, repeatedly, over a decade and even that took months and months or arguing with half of our idiot populace and Congress to get the f*cking job done. Yeah, I’m sure attacking Iran for “no apparent reason” would have been an easy sell.
He could have made the same case for Iran. They have multiple proxy armies of terrorists. They are developing nuclear weapons that they can sell, and they were included in the axis-of-evil. They aren’t cooperating with the IAEA, and they have been violating the non-proliferation treaty that they did sign.
They have been at the center of nearly everything that is wrong with the middle east. So yes, I wonder why the golden opportunity to take care of them once and for all wasn’t snapped up.