"there are lots of nasty people in the world." - Very true Folkiedave, very true.

"Now why pick on Iraq?" - Ask the US Joint House Security Committee, or all of the nineteen US Security and Intelligence Agencies who separately identified Saddam Hussein's Iraq as the nation posing the greatest threat to the United States of America, her interests and her allies.

"Why not go rescuing the Burmese people - suffering under a dictatorship." - Burma was not considered to be a threat to the United States of America, her interests and her allies.

"Or the Zimbabweans, who are dying of starvation as their country suffers under a dictator." - Zimbabwe was not considered to be a threat to the United States of America, her interests and her allies.

"Thousands if not millions have died in the Congo region of Africa. Wny not send a task/invasion force there instead of pussyfooting around?" - The Democratic Republic of the Congo was not considered to be a threat to the United States of America, her interests and her allies.   

"Is it the job of the USA just to go around putting the wrongs of the world right? If you believe it is then a little consistency might be appropriate." - No it is not the job of the United States of America to go round putting the wrongs of the world right, and I do not believe that I have ever said that it was. That little job is supposed to fall on a rather useless and ineffectual organisation known as the United Nations, who if memory serves me correctly:

- Did absolutely nothing in Rwanda
- Did absolutely nothing in the Balkans
- Did absolutely nothing in Tibet
- Did absolutely nothing in Cambodia
- Did absolutely nothing in Darfur
- Did absolutely nothing in Burma
- Did absolutely nothing in Zimbabwe
- Were doing nothing in Iraq until the USA stated if you do not act we will.