Muy Caliente!

But that’s OK because it took me a while too. I’m talking about the whole situation of why we still have troops in Iraq. It seems really obvious to me, but let me know if you think I am on the right track or not. Here goes:
After 9/11 I’m pretty sure that the US new exactly who attacked us and where they attacked us from. They also new which countries in the Middle East had a realistic threat of WMDs. They also had a good idea of who in power in these countries were supporting and harboring terrorism. It was not Afghanistan. It was not Iraq either. No, these countries, while holding genocidal regimes and terror cells that were dangerous and a threat to the US, democracy and freedom in the world, they were just stepping stones to what I believe will ACTUALLY be the war against terror. The country that I believe the US has been going after since 2001 is Iran.
I think the Iranian government is now the most threatening force to entire world. If you take a look at the mess in Iraq, most of the violence is not Iraqis killing Iraqis. It is extremist militias from around the world, but mostly Iran. Most of the weapons and explosives brought into Iraq are also from Iran. Now just going and trying to wipe Iran off the map is a very bad idea. Over half the country does not support their leader (sound familiar USA?). But what to do with a regime that has pointed out numerous times of its wish to wipe Israel off the map, praised the 9/11 attacks, is enriching uranium for nuclear power and/or weapons and has missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads? What Bush decided to do was surround them. We invaded Afghanistan from Pakistan and now hold Iran’s Eastern border. To the west, the US has air bases in Turkey, support from the Saudis, and are now in a holding position in Iraq. Saddam Hussein, while an evil leader and general threat to the US was just in the way for us to secure Iran and his regime was overthrown. We now sit between Iran and Israel - ready to intercept anything that happens to fly that way - missile, bomber, or otherwise. If it comes to it - we are now in the position to attack although I hope it never comes to this. I hope the people of Iran take matters in their own hands. If we go into Iran, the Middle East will become very very messy. You think Iraq is bad? I believe it would be 50% worse.