you believe the old adage, "leave the sleeping dog lie," would have solved the terrorist problem? That has been tried since the 1970's but they didn't continue to "lie" did they?

When was this tried, exactly? Iran? Iraq? Grenada? Panama? Cuba? Vietnam? Laos? Cambodia? Afghanistan? Chile? The last thing the US did in any of these cases was let them "lie" - instead, the US actively dug itself in and either funded repressive regimes as its pawns (several of whom subsequently turned against the US) or sent in its troops. Every one of these has turned out to be a fuckup of massive proportions. And every one has been directly caused by the US government's foreign policy of intervention that's been running for the last 40-50 years.

In the last 30 years, the only successes I can think of that the US military has had were Bosnia and Gulf War I, and those were achieved together with UN forces from many other countries, and with a UN mandate. If you can name any more, please let me know.

There is no doubt that the leaders of every major country in the world thought Saddam had WPM

Except they told the world they had evidence that Saddam had WMDs. Since they now can't produce any evidence, they were clearly lying through their teeth when they said that, weren't they?

Graham.