If we hadn't gone to war in Iraq...

then we would have....

-- had more readily sent a couple thousand marines to Liberia during the political crisis in 2004 instead of taking forever to send them due to our military being spread so thin.

-- already been able to put peace keepers in Darfur to stop the genocide there.

-- no budget deficit and a lower national debt.

-- 4000 American soldiers as well as soldiers of Britain, Italy, Australia, Poland, and the UK still alive.

-- lower oil price per barrel of oil.

-- more stable Saudi Arabia not on the verge of an Islamist attack on an oil field.

-- thousands upon thousands of Iraqi civilians still alive.

-- still a viable Chaldean Catholic population in Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul.

-- women being able to walk the streets of Iraq without a veil.

-- more credibility and respect from the international community.