I keep hearing more and more pundits (both liberal and conservative), saying going into Iraq was a mistake but since we are there let’s finish the job, yadda, yadda, yadda.

Why and how was going into Iraq a mistake? In my my admittedly very unsophisticated view:

we blew the doors off the Iraqis (the strongest army in the middle east) in very short time with amazingly few losses and or setbacks. (I read that Russian generals who were advising the Iraqis were stunned by the ease with which we rolled up the road to Baghdad).

We eliminated the THREAT of WMD’s by Saddam.

We have stacked up a bunch of the world wide supply of jihadis.

We eliminated a truly cruel and dangerous regime.

We are in the process of establishing a more or less “United States friendly” regime in a very important part of the world.

We have demonstrated to the world that when we get really upset, we are very good at breaking things.

Okay, what have I missed?