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Going into Afghanistan was the correct thing to do. We had to respond to 9/11 to give confidence to ourselves and the rest of the world that we will not sit back idly after being attacked.

Going into Iraq increasingly appears to be a personal vendetta on the parts of the administration. Yes, there may be an axis of evil, but much of its current rise is due to our behavior inside Iraq.

Afghanistan is a mess because interest in the country has shifted toward a need to stabilize and Democratize Iraq, mostly for its oil reserves and to establish a puppet state in the Middle East.

A person who blames the catastrophic results of this ill-founded war on the media, is only seeking an excuse against established facts about how entirely wrong this war is. The media aren't the only ones who know how ridiculous the U.S. administration has behaved since 9/11, the American people know. One only has to look at Bush's poll ratings. He's in the thirtieth-percentile.

As was said earlier, the Fundamentalist terrorists have made this a worldwide fight, which is true. But Iraq was never the place to meet that fight head on.