US objectives in Iraq prove elusive

[deadparrot]

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The world's only superpower has learned some hard lessons during three years of war in Iraq and there is increasing skepticism about whether it can ever achieve its objectives there.

President George W. Bush's stated rationale for invading in March 2003 -- ridding Iraq of weapons of mass destruction -- quickly proved illusory. No such arms were ever found.

Three years later, as bodies are dumped daily on the streets of Baghdad and civil war is very possible, longer term U.S. ambitions for a stable and democratic Iraq also seem shaky, experts say.

"It's quite clear, the United States did not achieve its objectives in Iraq" because they were "fundamentally wrong," said Anthony Cordesman, a former Pentagon official who once worked for Republican Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record) of Arizona.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/iraq_usa_objectives_dc

[LynnTheDem]

1. #1; WHAT "objectives"?

Genocide every single Iraqi in the country? We're doing damn well on that "objective".

America INVADED an INNOCENT NATION; a nation that had been doing NOTHING WHATSOEVER to anyone.

The Nuremberg Tribunal calls that "the supreme crime" So do I.

[daleo]

2. Bush hasn't even stolen the Iraqi oil

That will be his unforgivable sin, in the eyes of the neo-cons and empire capitalists.

[remfan]

3. Well, yeah...but some folks got to play football with bricks of $100 bills

so it's not a complete waste of time, right?