Depending on who you talk to, the decisions to invade Iraq and Afghanistan spring up different answers. I for one believe that our country’s leaders deceived us into thinking there were weapons of mass destruction controlled by crazy people. I think everyone felt deceived when no WMDs were discovered but you could still find people that were on board with the decision to take Hussein out of power. Saddam was by no means a person that you would want to cross but the country under his control seemed like a safer place than the war torn country of Iraq we created today. You cannot read the headlines without seeing something about people dying in suicide bombings, marines injured from insurgents and ravaged cities controlled by militant and military gun fire.

An exit strategy is an easier idea than answer to the problem. I do not have the pertinent information to make a smart decision on what we should do. We pull out completely and leave a country in civil war but if we stay more soldiers and money are wasted.

These will be the same problems if American and British forces decide to attack the crazy people of Iran who will not stop enriching their uranium program. But as we have seen with the crazy people of the Bush Administration, the leaders of Iran act on their own liking. They are not a good representation of the countries people. I think more than a few Americans would be embarrassed to be judged by the actions of Bush.

Nancy Cramer, a journalist, understood this idea and decided to take an intimate look at the so called crazy people of Iran in a three week observation of life within Iran. Her work was published in an article called As I See It. She said that the food was great, students from high school to college asked if they could take pictures with her  and the overall feeling was friendly. Iranian citizens voiced their like for America and asked what America thought of them. Billboards with martyrs killed during the Iraq skirmishes could be seen in every major city. Half the population is under 30 years old from those skirmishes. The citizens now facing rising unemployment voiced their concerns about their leaders (sound familiar). They do not seem like crazy people to me.

Bush went to meet people during his Europe Farewell Tour recently in hopes of gaining support for added pressure that is now being put on Iran to stop their nuclear program.  Prime Minster Gordon Brown agreed on moving more troops into Afghanistan and harder sanctions on Iran. A move to isolate Iran from the rest of world by freezing money, oil and gas is in the works. The pieces have been put in place and if Iran does not comply soon expect another active Middle Eastern target. Iran houses funny people, normal people, weird people and, of course, crazy people who can be seen in the governmental ranks just like us.