Oh junkie, thank you for proving my point for me. You make an excellent representation for the "Average American". Your share of the stimulus package is on its way to you in the form of a check, so be waiting by the mailbox, like all of the other unemployed Obama supporters.
As far as Iraq, I went there before most of this started for the second time, picture the wild west, no laws, no order, just he who has the biggest gun wins. That was Iraq. No schools, infrastructure didn't exist, oil funded their army, so no need for anything else. Wholesale slaughter of innocent people at the whims of Hussein.
Now, they have schools, plumbing, roads, hospitals and so on. It almost looks like a normal country. Thanks to us. You see that the Iraqis want us to leave, well its partially true. Two types want us out, those with money, so they can take control again, and those that are terrorist supporting bastards, which unfortunately are often the same.
What you don't see is the hundreds of thousands of normal people like us who have essentially been enslaved their entire lives. That is why we stay...and I am not ignorant, oil and a strategic military position in the middle of the hottest political spot in the world helps too