How do you know that you are correct? This grand experiment of bringing democratic societies to Afghanistan and Iraq is embryonic. We may not know the full outcome for a generation or more.
It's actually quite simple. Back in late 2002 and early 2003, nobody was using silly terms like "this grand experiment of bringing democratic societies to Afghanistan and Iraq" to describe the urgent nature of the war in Iraq. This idiocy about "democratic societies" is something that was conjured up (from all appearances, at least -- though I don't believe for a minute that it wasn't part of the U.S. agenda in the first place) after the WMDs failed to materialize.