[Joe Hadenuf]

The Middle East isn't vital to America? That's a new one on me.

Actually he didn't say the Middle East.

George Bush may prove to be a well-intentioned president who embroiled us in decades of wars in a part of the world that was never vital to America.

He was referring specifically to Iraq.

[freedomcrusader]

Thanks for the Clintonian parsing of words. He said "a part of the world" not "a country". Iraq is in the Middle East, which is most definitely a part of the world that is vital to America.

Following your logic, Pat could never have made the claim that US involvement in the Philippines embroiled us in wars with Japan, N. Korea, and Vietnam because those are different 'parts of the world' than the Philippines.

Nice try, however.