Good Timing

Big story today in The New York Times, "Hussein Saw Iraqi Unrest as Top Threat." The headline pretty much says it all. I think there are two lessons we can learn from this.

1) We invaded at the perfect time. If we had waited much longer (and we certainly waited, hoping to get important members of the UN, who were essentially playing us, to join our coalition), Saddam likely would have gotten wise. There probably would have been more resistance to our invasion, and--who knows--perhaps many thousands of our soldiers dying in the first few months of battle.

2) Iraqi people should appreciate (not that many don't) what we did, since if we decided not to invade, it seems that Saddam was ready for another cleansing, where tens of thousands or more of his own people would pay the price.