The biggest mistake that Bush and Rumsfeld made in 2003 was not right-wheeling into Iran after Baghdad fell. Why that country and its population of fanatics is not a smoldering crater in the ground today is beyond me.
Documents made public by Wikileaks recount Iran’s role in providing Iraqi militia fighters with rockets, magnetic bombs, rifles, surface-to-air missiles used against American helicopters.
The Iranians were scared witless in 2003 and afraid we might do just that. Everyone who remembers 1979, including the Iranians, knows that the US owns Iran a giant shipment of whipass. We don’t have to restore a civil government in Iran, just break up their toys real good, including anything that even is remotely useful for making a nuclear weapon.