1) Even if islamic fundamentalists are in a "War against the West", the West fighting against fundamentalist terrorism doesn't mean that the west is fighting against islam, it just means that it is fighting against terror. Politicians use religious, ethnic and racial differences to get support for their wars, but fighting these differences is not the end-goal, or else they would be fighting elsewhere where there is no oil too.
2) You can say Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney ran this war, but what about Blair? Blair didn't just go to war because Bush told him so. Britain has its how geo-political interests in play, and I think that was the main interest.
Re: I'd like to visit a safe Baghdad some day.
1) Even if islamic fundamentalists are in a "War against the West", the West fighting against fundamentalist terrorism doesn't mean that the west is fighting against islam, it just means that it is fighting against terror. Politicians use religious, ethnic and racial differences to get support for their wars, but fighting these differences is not the end-goal, or else they would be fighting elsewhere where there is no oil too.
2) You can say Wolfowitz, Rumsfeld and Cheney ran this war, but what about Blair? Blair didn't just go to war because Bush told him so. Britain has its how geo-political interests in play, and I think that was the main interest.