The current state of affairs in Iraq has been the culmination of roughly a decade of unpleasant and even hostile quarrels between Iraq's controversial dictator Saddam Hussein and presidents George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush. Tensions have seemed to have risen to an unprecedented level and now war looks inevitable. More importantly are the circumstances that have led to this present predicament.
The conflict seemed to have originated during the first Bush administration, with the clash deriving from Iraq's expiring funds. …