I have to disagree here. In interviews with some 40 protestors in New York who agreed to speak with the reporter not one knew anything more than the names of George Bush, Condy Rice and Powell, none knowing what Powell's position is. Most of the protestors when asked knew what position Bush held. The other's knew Powell or Rice, but not both. Most knew little or nothing about the 2,000 lbs. of nerve gas unaccounted for by Sadam. He must have misplaced it somewhere. Hmmm. None of those interviewed were able to articulate an intelligent opinion about most of the reality factors of the presently known knowledge of weapons mass in Iraq. 
I feel very strongly that it is as much of a crime against the American people and those of other peaceful nations for Sadam to squander our resources in time, money and manpower babysitting his butt and searching his rooms as if he were an errant teenybopper with pot hidden somewhere as Osamma's blowing up of the trade towers. Last week an escaped scientist from Iraq declared unequivocally that Saddam still has these weapons and does intend to wreak havoc in the United States and elsewhere with them. I believe this man unequivocally. Just after the 1st. World Trade Towers attack I drove up to Bloomfield NJ on a needlework trip with a few other ladies. When we left we had to get onto the Garden State Parkway to head back south. Along the entrance ramp, a very slow entry due to the traffic at 4 o'clock there were Middle-Eastern men lining the roadway, gesturing at the picture of that 1993 disaster and yelling "they will do it again! They will do it again!" I didn't really believe it then, see 9/11/2001. 
The fundamentalist Muslims feel they have an obligation to destroy America or at least our peace of mind. They detest us for our perceived weakness in allowing freedom to triumph over what they consider moral imperatives. The mindset is quite different from ours, most gentle and pacific persons do not understand how deadly the truly evil can be. I divorced my first husband, he was a terrorist of the truly domestic sort, a wife abuser. There is absolutely no possibility of negotiating or managing a sociopath, they hear a different voice than the one we are using. They only understand strength and disdain those who do not use it to the fullest. As ever there are good Muslims among the bad, but there were also good Germans among the bad in Germany. Millions of dead men, women and children among the Jews can tell you about that. 
Who made us the policemen of the world? Those who accept aid from us did. We have made nice for so long that those we try to aid spit on us for this. In a conversation with an old friend, Iraqui/American a few years ago, she explained it this way: 
You give the aid, they accept it and act rather simple minded when they do, shuffling and smiling and thanking, then when you leave they laugh and deride your attempts. They feel inside that you are fools, you invite the viper into your beds. 
And she was on our side! In our conversation she stated that these minor attacks will continue, perhaps with attempts to infiltrate our water systems, and with biological attacks in subways, places where large groups congregate and in Washington. This conversation occured 9/15/2001. Who is she? She is a political refugee from Iraq, a specialist in microbiology who used to work in Iraq in their biological weapons development. 
This problem in the Middle East will not disappear..ever. Not as long as we are a fat, happy and relatively immoral people. Freedom has it's price. The bill is coming due. 
I believe that what we should do is to hit, hit fast, hit hard and clear out as much of the muck there as we can, then help those people rebuild a better country. We won't be universally loved for this act, there may be retaliations. There were retaliations on 9/11, what was it we did then? We existed. Shame on us. 
We can do this, I figure 3 months of battle then the work begins.