I agree with much of what you said, regarding fighting a legitimate war. However, many Americans think we should not be in Iraq at all, nor should we have invaded. We are not "defending" our country. Al Queda wasn't in Iraq until Bush invaded the country and started this war basically under the false pretenses of "weapons of mass destruction". All we've done is fan the flames of hostility and the existing tensions between the ethnic groups there. If we had spent a tenth of what we spent on the war itself, and applied it to security measures in our own country, we'd be a lot farther ahead