> the real reason Iraq got beat up again was because he was still trying
> to get a pair of brass knuckles (and some other nasty implements).

There was never any real proof that Iraq was trying to get any 'nasty implements'. Bush 'claimed' that they were trying. But he also said there were WMD's in Iraq too which was either an unforgivable error, or a purposeful lie.
Bush lost any credibility he had when the so called 'WMD's' never materialized.

I sometimes wonder how people would feel if the situation was reversed.
For instance... Iraq claims that the U.S. is stockpiling weapons so they bomb the Whitehouse and arrest the President. Then they take over Washington with armed patrols and stay there for the next ten years pretending to look for weapons that never existed in the first place.

What would make that any different than what the U.S. is doing right now?