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of President Ronald Reagan. Still hungry for conquest, Saddam invaded Kuwait ostensibly to stop the poaching of Iranian oil under the desert sand and to incorporate it as a province. In fact, Saddam had asked for America's opinion about his planned adventure and was assured by American diplomats that it was of no concern. Thus, America had already double crossed Saddam twice in both of his wars, when George W. Bush decided to blame 9-11 on him and claim he was plotting to use weapons of mass destruction against the US. It would appear that Saddam has been the favorite enemy of Republican presidents to trick, blame and fight, if by proxy. Perhaps, the belief was that keeping the Iraqis fighting in the Middle East kept them from fighting in America, but there has never been credible evidence that Iraqis ever had the ambition to strike at America. That appears to have been a neo-conservative excuse for foreign intervention in Iraq.

After several years of al-Qaeda terrorists fomenting intra-Muslim bloodshed in Iraq, where Shiites outnumber Sunnis by more than double, the Sunnis grew tired of the violence against innocent compatriots, something that Mohammad had strictly warned against. Concurrently, the American people had grown wise to the deceit of George W. Bush and his cabal of neo-cons and Zionists, who salivated at the thought of controlling Iraqi oil riches. The majority of both Iraqis and Americans wanted the US to depart from Iraq by the 2006 mid-term elections in the US, but Bush refused to admit his lies about 9-11 or the failure of his Terror War policies.
Finally, Senator John McCain and others prevailed in insisting that America had too few forces to control the country, so a "Surge" of troops was combined with General Petreas' counter insurgency policies, including the paying of Sunnis to protect their neighborhoods. In combination with the decision of the Medhi Army of Muqtada al-Sadr to recognize a cease fire, increasing combat competence of the new Iraqi Army and the willingness of the Shiite-dominated government of Prime Minister al-Maliki to accept responsibility for areas of the country, the violence within Iraq has begun to subside, albeit not to the level under the oppression of Saddam.

The American Democratic Congress took power in 2006 with promises to end the war, yet when faced with approving Bush's budget requests or being blamed for failing to support American troops at war, Congress continued to give Bush whatever he requested to fight

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