Pakistan

Since 1999, the nation of Iraq has been ruled by a brutal dictator who took power in a military coup and has deliberately resisted any democratic reforms that might oust him from the presidency. Iraq's foreign relations have been marked by hostility and aggression, and twice in the last decade, it has brought the world to the brink of its first nuclear conflict following a border conflict with its nearest neighbor. Iraq has confirmed its status as a nuclear power, and is even now developing a ballistic missile system that could conceivable allow it to lauch nuclear warheads into the heart of America. Worst of all, one of Iraq's leading scientists was recently discovered to have sold nuclear secrets to rogue nations like Libya and North Korea, and possibly even to Islamist terror organizations -- and when his nefarious scheme was discovered, his own government let him off with less than a slap on the wrist.

A majority Muslim nation, Iraq's people despise their heavy-handed authoritarian leader, and his support by foreign leaders has only strengthened the Islamic fundamentalist movement there. There are indisputed ties between the country's madrasses, or fundamentalist Muslim schools, and terrorist organizations like al-Q'aeda; many members of the oppressive sectarian Taliban have made Iraq their home since being driven out of Afghanistan. Atrocities are commonplace on both sides; while the Islamic hardliners plot acts of terror, the government is complicit in torture, murder and myriad civil rights violations. Outside observers say that Iraq's political situation is a lethal Hobson's choice between an awful totalitarian dictatorship and a popular but extremist Islamic movement; and whoever's in charge, they're unquestioningly sitting on an ever-growing arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.

Oh, wait, that's not Iraq! It's PAKISTAN! And they're on our side, so there's nothing to worry about. On to Iran!