senor, europe is folowing our lead whether they want to or not.  are you one who thinks there were no wmds., dispite the kurdish evidence.if we wanted oil we could have kept going the same way it was. its not about oil. its about trying to change 2000 yrs of fucked up religious tyranny. we did leave them to it and look where it got us. mideast never had a better president than carter and look what iran did to him.