You can not beat terrorism. It is an idea, not a group of people or country. Like freedom, it can't be beaten. Anyone who fights this war will fight it forever.
It was never about WMDs or Saddam. If you want to know one of the, if not THE reason we went to war with them, it is because they were selling oil in EUROS (since 2000) and not US Dollars, as they and the rest of the world has been since day one.
http://archives.cnn.com/2000/WORLD/m....un.euro.reut/
Or maybe I'm just crazy.