You said,
“This is a future where Iraq’s billions are used in transparent contracts to build the country and improve economic ties with our true allies and friends, not in shady deals for building palaces, supporting terrorists, and procuring tools of aggression.”
and yet over 100 billion has been lost to corruption, some of it U.S. taxpayer dollars.
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/14/world/middleeast/14reconstruct.html
You mentioned the Christian festival, and yet in October, 3000 Christians fled Mosul.
http://www.christiansofiraq.com/houses%20blownup.html
But yes, it’s nice that Iraq is not a threat to its neighbors, if it is true. The U.S. does not get a permanent military base there, as was hoped by Wolfowitz and Rumsfeld and other neocons; nor is there a Saddam to keep Iran in check. Mission accomplished!
