We are going to war because Saddam kills his own people and he has not disarmed, and we are not "occupying" surrounding countries, some of them are allowing us to use their territory to advance our operations in Iraq, but we don't have control of them. You need to spend some more time in the "War on Terror" forum so you can get a better understanding of what is going on, we aren't just going in to get a handful of terrorists, we are going in to get rid of all of Saddam's WMD and kick him out because he is a ruthless, heartless dictator.