troll, no we should not have waited until the iraquis exploded a nuclear device. we should have waited until the time requested by the inspectors which, as i recall, was a matter of weeks. at such time the UN should have evaluated the results, decided on a course of action (which may have included military force) and proceeded. in that case i think we may have been able to keep world opinion with us and avoided the resentment we've stirred and still have dealt with saddam in a timely fashion. instead we've launched an unprecedented and illegal aggressive war. time will tell the truth of what our governments agenda is but the manner in which it has acted makes me very suspicious. that, and the new american century document which clearly is a blueprint for american primacy in the world at the expense of others. a reprehensible and truly unamerican manifesto.