An excellent reson to do the opposite.
Our longer term strategic goal was to create a modern reformed western democracy that would serve as a model to other islamic majority states ruled by diktat and breeding ignorance poverty and resentment of the West that imposed those borders and supported those leaders be they kings or generals
Could you even CONCEIVE of anything stupider than that?
I used to believe in it. I supported Bush 100%
Now I feel we were all betrayed
First by 4 Bush critical miscalculations
1) Get the UN behind us by claiming the need to clean out WMD
2) The Iraqi people will welcome us as liberators
3) Saddam’s Old Guard can never be included in a reformed regime
4) The American people will accept the human and financial cost of a very large force deployed in Iraq for a very long time while we rebuild the country with our treasure. And to show how noble we are, we’ll let them sell their oil to China to show everyone we didn’t invade them for their oil