Here's a criticism of the Bush administration's shift of focus to Iraq while Al Queda continues its mission of drawing the US and the West into a wider conflict with the Islamic world.
The Guardian To me, the bottom line is that if we focus on Al Queda our intentions are completely understandable, however, if we change targets to Iraq, we play right into the hands of the extremists giving them the opportunity to paint us as the aggressors, radicalizing, as tw is fond of noteing, people not normally in the sway of religous extremists. I still don't see the upside of an Iraqi invasion. We knock off Hussein and install another puppet and then spend a generation guarding oil fields? I guess we could use Iraqi airstrips to hammer Syria and Iran...