Why’d we go to war with Iraq again?
First it was to find and destroy all of Saddam’s WMDs, but we can’t find any.
Then it was to find and destroy Saddam, but we can’t find him.
Then it was to liberate the Iraqi people and install a new, democratic government in Iraq — only that new goverment is looking like it might not be very friendly to the US:
As Iraqi Shiite demands for a dominant role in Iraq’s future mount, Bush administration officials say they underestimated the Shiites’ organizational strength and are unprepared to prevent the rise of an anti-American, Islamic fundamentalist government in the country.
The burst of Shiite power — as demonstrated by the hundreds of thousands who made a long-banned pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala yesterday — has U.S. officials looking for allies in the struggle to fill the power vacuum left by the downfall of Saddam Hussein.
“It is a complex equation, and the U.S. government is ill-equipped to figure out how this is going to shake out,” a State Department official said. “I don’t think anyone took a step backward and asked, ‘What are we looking for?’ The focus was on the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.”
We’re on a roll, folks. It’s just not going where the powers that be expected it to.
(via Tom Tomorrow)