weelittledrummer, you say "It was a dumb move conquering the country - but conquering it and walking out again like Bush senior had done didn't really seem to work , did it? if you had left Saddam in power one day he would have got the supergun that he could hold the whole world to ransom with." but there are no indicators that Saddam was a Hitler in the sense that he aspired to rule the world.

Plus, Bush senior did not, to my mind, "conquer" Iraq- from all reports he did what he set out to do which was to send Saddam back inside his borders. As far as it not working is concerned, it DID work. Saddam could hardly move around inside his own country without being monitored.

Nope. It was NOT smart to attempt to conquer Iraq- as Bush senior himself said at the time. I didn't like Bush senior but he had a whole lot more diplomatic sense than does his son.