Actually, GUEST, if the motive were really the eradication of terrorism, THEN we'd go after Saudi Arabia. As it is now, Saudis supply nearly all the money and much o the manpower that goes into radical Islamic terrorism, starting with Osama Bin Laden.

Right now, our oil companies do a lot of business with the Saudis, so our government for the most part leaves the Saudis alone. But the Saudi government is in an unholy alliance with Wahabi extremists. The extremists allow the corrupt house of Saud to run the government, and in return the Saudi government gives them billions which go to fund anti-US terrorism. We tolerate this because we are addicted to Saudi oil. The sad thing is that changing Iraq will do almost nothing to stop terrorism. It may, however, mean that it's someone else's money going to kill us.