I've long held the attitude that our invasion of Iraq was a great choice!  Why?  My friends Omar & Mohammed taught me early on in the war about Iraqis and their collective nature.  They have been traditionally secular, intermarrying between Sunni & Shia, and highly educated.  Today I read a justification for that attitude from the minds of Iraqis thanks to Mohammed's post.  He had been monitoring a BBC site asking the question, "Should Arab nations have nuclear weapons?"  He translated and posted some of the Iraqi's answers to that question, and they are likely to be a pleasant surprise for most westerners.  For instance;

"I wish from all my heart that Arabs [not] get to build nuclear weapons because they will use them against one another and against their peoples-what Saddam did is the best example. Consequently this would lead to the extinction of Arabs and by that Arabs would be giving a free service to the civilized western world by ridding the world of themselves and their terror. The world will become safer."
Ammar Rahmatallah. Baghdad"

This observation was one learned from Ammar's personal experience with Saddam.

"My name is Haider Mousawi from Arabic Basra. I absolutely refuse that Arabs acquire nuclear weapons, at least for the time being, for several reasons. First, it's dangerous for them before others, as Arab rulers are not wise and might use them against one another or against themselves (just like the former rulers of my country did to their people and the region's peoples). Second, nuclear weapons could not save super powers like the USSR from collapse. Third, they are very expensive, so it's better to [spend money] fighting poverty and unemployment. Fourth, those weapons are going to be a burden on their producers in the future and fifth, a peaceful program makes more sense."
Haider Mousawi. Basra

This thoughtful and insightful response was also educated, insofar as his observation about Soviet Russia was spot on.  This one was short and succinct;

"Even thinking about this subject should be forbidden to Arabs, Iranians and Muslims because of the factor of religious and sectarian extremism. The world would be living in the dark ages had these dangerous weapons fell into their hands."
Saad al-Iraqi. Baghdad

This one I found to be the most surprising, my bet is you will too!

"Only democracies like Israel or India can have these weapons while Arab countries would threaten world peace and the future of life on the planet. Even if Arabs don’t get to have strategic missiles to strike the west, they'd detonate [the weapons] in their homes and against their peoples in any case of revolt.
When Arabs acquired conventional explosives they strapped them to their cars and their own bodies and enhanced them with nails and ball bearings to attack civilian crowds at weddings and hospitals. This is what happened and keep happening in Iraq, Jordan, Israel and Egypt and all other places infested with terrorism."
Mohammed al-Iraqi. Baghdad/Iraq

As Mohammed observed;

"Not only that, in fact some of the commentators even emphasized that only Israel has the right the possess nuclear weapons in the region because of the hostility and fanaticism of the regimes it's surrounded by."

One commenter even observed that if Israel wanted to use their nuclear against an Arab state, they would have done so already!  I urge you to go read the rest of the article.  It may help you to feel better about what we are doing in Iraq.