>And WE are not provoking anyone right now...WE are responding to provocation.

How were we "provoked" by Iraq? Our government lied to the American people and sold us some story about Saddam and 9/11, yellowcake and aluminum tubes. Then after no WMD were found, the reason for entering Iraq suddenly became "the Iraqi people need to be free of this dictator". Saddam was in no way a threat to the US. We made sure of that during the first Gulf War.