A bit of a rant:

For all the talk about preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and protecting "the homeland", this administration (and congress---hint, hint: vote!) has done an incredibly poor job.

How many years ago now was it that the "Axis of Evil" was named: Iraq, Iran, North Korea. Anyone in their right mind would have approached the problem thus: first, prioritize these countries by the danger that they pose, then develop a plan to deal with them in order from most to least dangerous, and finally implement said plan.

So, step 1.
-Iraq: may or may not have WMD; may or may not even have a WMD program; may or may not have ties to terrorism
-Iran: definitely has a uranium enrichment program; definitely funds and arms Hezbollah
-North Korea: advanced nuclear program with enough plutonium for 6-10 nuclear bombs; now, they've conducted a successful nuclear test.

So, with this information at hand, how would you rank the threat posed by each of these countries? Seems pretty obvious to me that Iraq would not go at the top of the list.

Then there's step 2, planning to deal with them:
Planning. Once a target was chosen (for reasons other than what most of us would call "facts" and "reality"), a plan needed to have been draw up to not only accomplish a short-term goal, but a longer-term goal of a stable government that would not, as a recently-leaked National Intelligence Estimate has suggested, turn Iraq into a recruiting tool for terrorist organizations both because of its instability and the increased animosity toward the United States that it breeds.

As for step 3, some sort of plan was indeed put into action. Look where it's gotten us: a nuclear North Korea, a uranium-encriching, Hezbollah-sponsoring Iran, and a mess in Iraq in which nearly 3000 US soldiers have been killed, approximately 100 civilians are killed every day by sectarian violence, and nobody is willing to do anything about it.

That's all I got.