Would we be better off, if...?

Liewise. I was the biggest supporter of Bush, eventhough he had massive scewups. I still think he would have done better then Kerry, but thats based more on a personal opinion and not fact. I still think that going to war was a bad idea, but now that we did, i say let him finish what he started. You cant just go into another country, bascially destroy it, start to rebuild and then say fuck it were out. I dont like the idea of our boys being hurt over there, but what else should we do, pull out and let Iraq turn into shit. Plus, we need the oil haha.

Taking their Oil is only delaying the inevitable, we're still relying on a nonrenewable source of energy as it's still believed to be formed via ancient organic materials, the odds of finding petroleum on another planet after we've run Earth dry are low to begin with. We'd long have been cured of our Oil addiction by the time we likely found another source of it.

Regarding Iraq and such, I'd rather we halfassed a mistake rather than stuck to our guns and finish the judgement we've rendered over most of the country.