if people go back and re-examine the march to war in Iraq, some startling things start to emerge.

For example, all along the UN inspectors were not finding what the US said was there and kept coming back to the UN reporting to the contrary to what the Bush Adminstration was claiming.  Not only that, at one point the UN inspectors asked the US to quit giving it places to check, because each time they checked, nothing was found and it was taking time away for more credible locations of any potential WMD's. 

Now, don't know about anyone else out there, but if I were in a country with geographical attachments to a country such as Iraq (when compared to our ocean buffers), I'd hope my govt would be more prudent in its march to war. 

One thing that people seem to forget awfully fast is that France and Germany and other European countries have had their country sides ravaged by war and might have a different perspective when chosing to go to war, especially when what we know now was untrue.

(Drone airplanes, WMD's, aluminum tubes, mobile death labs, al Queda connections, 9/11 connections, et cetera)...

Bush has certainly squandered the reputation of the US with his Iraq war and it is going to take some repair.