What a workmanlike and soaringly excellent report you have compiled!
There is one little turnstile in Iraq's developing freedom: the Right to Keep and Bear (fire-) Arms may be deliberately excluded from their Constitution. Even still, America has donated the rule of law to these newly-liberated people.
Thanks for your gracious comment. I just felt I could use my knowledge of how dire WWII was for this country for most of our involvement in it and place that into a perspective vis a vis the Iraqi situation. I am sick of hearing how this is an endless quagmire in which we can never succeed. This could be another self inflicted defeat like Vietnam. (I am a vet of the SE Asia war games by the way)