My doublewide living, Nascar watching, 6-fingers on each hand Cletus will tell me, "Well we up'n them there went ta liberate them eye-raqi peoples! Why, doggoneit, Saddam woulda killed 'em if we not liberatid 'em!"

Fair enough, Cletus. Say, as a side note - Before we go any further - Can you please identify where Iraq is located?

"'Course I'can.. Whodoya think A'am? Eye-raq's in the Midwest. Everyone knows that, and Jesus finally come to them Eye-raqis to help liberate'em!"

Okay, now that we have that figured out, let's analyze the situation a little bit. First of all, maybe I am selfish, but I didn't particularly care how Saddam was running his country. The added bit of irony here is how, on one hand, some will froth at the mouth expounding how Saddam was such a bastard towards his people. Then, in the same sentence or conversation will let slip that we should "kill 'em all". I have a "friend" like this! It's quite amusing to hear him spout off on the topic.

There are dozens of dictators around the world. Is it the United States' job to deal with all of them? Not in my opinion it isn't. The billions of dollars spent could have been spent in a much wiser fashion, by helping the American people rather than the Iraqi people.

Now, at this point, doublewide living Cletus will get into a tizzy, shaking his head in anger, claiming how unAmerican one is to say thus, how much of a threat Saddam was, etc.

Do you know how much of a threat Saddam was to the US? About as much of a threat as a camel with two pounds of shit strapped to its sides. In other words, no threat at all. How do I know this? Well, you see, the United States has a vast nookolar.. Sorry, I mean nuclear.. arsenal. Cletus, what this means is, let's theoretically say Saddam, in a drunkan jihad-vision inspired rage, one day in the past had decided to use his make-believe non-existent WMDs against any US target. Do you know what would have happened to Eye-raq? It would have ceased to exist; Saddam and everyone within 500 square miles of Saddam would have been turned into bright, shiny, glowing photons, delivered lovingly by US B-2 stealth bombers.

Therefore, my good friend Cletus, put down the pig gristle, turn off the Nascar, lock-up the doublewide and pay attention: The moral of the story is - The next time some Asshat gets on the TV and proclaims to you how it's your moral imperative to help the "poor (Insert country name here) people", stop and think for a moment - Maybe you're just being dicked around. Maybe there aren't WMDs. Maybe billions of dollars wasted could have been better used to improve your doublewide and get you a better working TV. Maybe.. just maybe!

5 years of help, and Iraqis are throwing shoes at our outgoing president. What does this tell you? It tells me, "What a collosal fucking waste of time".