I personally think if we did attack Iraq- this would just invite terror upon the US. One only needs to look at the Palestinian situation to understand this, if you occuppy a people, and treat them as second class citizens, or in our actions against Iraq, continually bomb and impose sanctions upon them, they will become piss- offed, and will try anything they can to get revenge or justice in their dissillusioned eyes. Add Islam to the mix, and you have even more of a problem.
The only solution i see, is to leave the middle east the hell alone- let them find another enemy- maybe Israel for a while. Lets buy more expensive gas, we can afford it.
My cousin is from Iran, and he thinks the country is dangerous and backwards, but really what can theUS do, when we tried intervention with these countries it failed, as it did with the Shah.
I think we should just blame the british for this mess, they laid out the modern middle east as we know it- and gave into the zionist movement to creat Israel the mortal enemy of the arabs- they should bear the responsibility of fucking the whole region up.