I'll take a positive leaf out of the US's book during the war with Japan as an example of the US and it's rebuilding record for what could be considered as rougue countries - Japan was certainly one of them!
Yeah sure At the horror of Hiroshima and Nagasaki being levelled by a US Atomic bomb, it has always been the US who has stood by our country at an enormous unnecessary cost to them and prevented us from being - now read this carefully - TAKEN OVER - by the japanese. I'm not condoning that everything they have done in the past has been right, but I'm certainly not saying they've done everything wrong either. After the bombing of those two japanese cities who else was it but the United States to build it up again - also at considerable cost - manage it, and turn it back over to the japanese hierarchy as an economic superpower.
To claim oil has much to do about anything is sticking your head in the sand - Sadi Arabia has stacks more and would be a much easier target. Iraq would never have been invaded had Saddam followed the simple UN guidelines imposed upon him during the first gulf war. He flaunted it and now he and may others - again most certainly the US - has had to pay the price. I've got no time for TYRANTS or TERRORISTS and I wish them every Hell imaginable. You are indeed protesting about the very thing that our countries have believed, died and fought for - it's what has won Bush another term in office, it's called DEMOCRACY and I believe it's alive and well and doing a damn good job! My 10cents worth :wink: