WTF have we been doing over there for the last 2 years?

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/10/AR2005081000289_pf.html

Iraq's leaders and military will be unable to lead the fight against insurgents until next summer at the earliest, a top U.S. military official said Wednesday, trying to temper any hopes that a full-scale American troop withdrawal was imminent as Iraq moves toward elections scheduled for December.

Both Americans and Iraqis need "to start thinking about and talking about what it's really going to be like in Iraq after elections," said the military official, who spoke in an interview on the condition he not be named. "I think the important point is there's not going to be a fundamental change."

The official stressed that it was "important to calibrate expectations post-elections. I've been saying to folks: You're still going to have an insurgency, you're still going to have a dilapidated infrastructure, you're still going to have decades of developmental problems both on the economic and the political side."

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1. Simple, we never intended to win anything...

We simply intended to make money and yes "we" because are tax bucks go to this machine.

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2. Killing innocent Iraqi women and children and elderly.....

....hoping to smoke out terrorists it looks like. Oh, and protecting oil interests and installing a puppet government.

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3. setting up permanent military bases for an assault on Iran