This makes no sense to me ...

These things make no sense to me:

• This: We invaded Iraq to fight terrorism (read, Al Qaeda), though Iraq had no known ties to that terrorist organization. At the same time, the Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden is widely reported to be operating out of Pakistan!
• And this: Yet, we don't invade Pakistan. Instead, our President claims that Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf had been a helpful ally in fighting terrorism. "We have enjoyed some of our biggest successes with our allies in Pakistan," a White House Spokesman (Townsend) reportedly told reporters. Oh, really.
• At the same time this: Our Administration is continually making overtures of war towards Iran because insurgents are allegedly aided and abetted by groups inside Iran, even though those groups, so far as I am aware, have no known ties to the Iranian government.
• On top of this: Iraq was said to have become a nuclear threat to the U.S., yet we now know that Iraq had no nuclear capability. Our "intelligence" was that bad.
• At the same time, Korea DID and DOES have nuclear capability, yet our administration went about "disarming" Korea through diplomacy.
• And this: The United States apparently DOES know where Al Qaeda's leadership resides. U.S. officials suspect he is hiding in the remote mountainous border region of Pakistan and Afghanistan. So, I am confused: Why are we bogged down inside of Iraq rather than sweeping the hills of Pakistan?
• And now this: There were no known links of Saddam Hussein's government to Al Qaeda, and it is doubtful that Al Qaeda could have operated from inside Iraq, seeing as Saddam despised the organization. Now that the United States is in control of Iraq that has changed! The White House now reports that Al Qaeda in Iraq currently is the group's most visible and capable affiliate and the only one known to have expressed a desire to attack us here in the United States. So, the United States opened the arms of Iraq to Al Qaeda, in the name of national defense?

What am I missing here? This simply is not adding up. What are the missing pieces to this puzzle? Someone help me out. Send me some informed comments!