George the 1st might be onto something

Former President George H.W. Bush regarding his son's Iraq war critics:

"I don't know what they are talking about here. Do they think life would be better in the Middle East if Saddam were still here?"

Is he asking if it might have been better if we had continued the successful containment of a dictator who was by no means the worst in the world while concentrating our armed forces instead in Afghanistan and elsewhere against the actual 9/11 terrorists, who would have been largely vaporized by now with our military still intact, with the world cheering us on, with Iran and other nations thinking twice about taking on our might and with our budget not busted for decades to come?

Yes.