I once saw an interview on TV with Bill Clinton and the interviewer kept hounding Clinton for his oppinion on how Dubya had treated the Iraq situation but Billy wouldn't bite until near the end of the interview he finally responded and his answer was so true.
He said no matter what happens in the world there will always be bad people out there like Saddam and no matter what we do to rid ourselves of people like that there will always be more bad people coming behind them. So when we seem to have made a fix today the bad people coming after will be that much worse to us for what we have done in the past. In effect what we have done is rid ourselves of Saddam today only to have somebody much worse to follow in his footsteps tommorow. So our children and our grand children will be the ones to pay the price. The problems and the issues that face Iraq and other nations like Iraq today have been around for thousands of years and unfortunately Bush is not going to be the guy to end them.
On the issue of patriotism, Bill Clinton was the president before Bush so I would assume that all you patriots out there would have followed him and were loyal to him. What I fail to understand is how you can be loyal to one presidents way of running the country only to do a complete 180 in favour of the next presidents way of running the country. You have to agree that Clintons way and Bush's way are totally different from each other.