Ditto.
Our country is run by fools.
The key to understanding Iraq is the simple and quite obvious observation is that Iraq doesn't really exist - it is a purely jury-rigged political construct cobbled together by the British imperialists after WWI for the express purpose of creating a disharmonious state that would be easier to dominate. Iraq represents no national identity. There is no such thing as an "Iraqi." There are Sunnis, and Shiites, and Kurds and Turkomens and Chaldeans.
But there are no Iraqis.
Only a drooling idiot could have ever thought otherwise.
We can't build a new "Iraq." We might as well try to make a decent country out of, say, Afghanistan, which is made up of warring Pashtuns and Tajiks and Uzbeks and so forth.
Oh, sorry, I forgot. We are trying to build a new Afghanistan. Hahahahaha!!! Silly me. I seem to have a hard time accepting that our country is run by morons.
And one of the saddest aspects of this whole affair is the way Bush and his advisers were duped by Chalabi and other nefarious Shia scum.