Anti-war protesters were right. Iraq invasion has led to chaos.

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96. I don't think we differ that much. Yes, we built the world's largest, most hardened embassy in Iraq

...from which we would control our empire in the ME. The Saudis were/are feeling the pressure from the Wahabists, re: American heathens in the Muslim Holy Land, and have requested that we quietly remove American presence from SA soil. My main point is that we were never going to leave Iraq and the ME once we returned. Bush1 had his friendly little war (The Coalition of the Willing) and removed most American presence from Iraq, except for UN Weapons observers. cheney*, PNAC* and Helliburton* plotted for a continuous, lower-level ME conflict, catered by Helliburton* forever and ever with mucho no-bid contracts and the looming specter of the Patriot Act to stifle any dissent both in the American Congress and the American people. Thus bush*2 gave us Iraq Redux, the mother of all clusterfucks. The bushishtas* had undoubtedly pictured it would all come together far better than it has actually transpired, but hey, what didn't this group not fuck up? Seriously. cheney*/bush* predicted the Iraqis would greet us throwing flowers, not IEDs and other ordinace. cheney*/bush* figured the ME would kowtow to American might, forever ending ME terrorism. Thanks, cheney*/bush*, ISIS thanks you from the bottom of their little black fanatic hearts. This heads for you. cheney*/bush* predicted a golden period of stability in Iraq as an American protectorate, kind of like our own little ME Puerto Rico. Ah yes, The Green Zone. And in actuality we have broken Iraq, and unfortunately it's people, most likely beyond all repair. Even now this American President deliberates reinforcing the forever continuous American presence in Iraq.

Again, the overreaching goal for cheney* and the PNAC* and their warhawk profiteers was never-ending conflict in the ME with the US involved to some degree forever and ever.