Our goal in invading Iraq was to destroy a hostile regime which was part of a Triad of Middle Eastern terror states as identified correctly by Bush in one of his speeches.
Having destroyed Saddam, we should have moved on to destroy the Ayatollahs and then the Sister Baatist terror state of Syria.
Instead, we let a military operation degenerate into a police operation whose goal was to create a new kind of government in the Middle East. Laudable, but totally impracticable. Had we chosen to run this social experiment AFTER we had eliminated the Iran and Syrian terror governments, it might have had a chance.
It will never succeed as the Iranians will agitate the Shiite majority and the Batthists will stir up the Sunnis. Their goal is to get us out of their and then flight between themselves over the carcass of a geographical expression not a nation sate in the sense that we recognize one.
Bremer was an idealist and a moron. I remember hearing him speak in late 2003. When he said that he was modeling post war Iraq after post war Japan and he does not want Iraq to have a real Army instead he wanted them to have just a small National Guard force to mostly disarm mines.
Tens of thousands of Iraqis and thousands of Americans died who shouldn’t have because of this guys stupid decisions.