They hate us, because we destroyed their infrastructure, caused 4.5 million to run away, murdered another million and poisoned their entire country with spent uranium, in such a manner that birth defects have skyrocketed an order of magnitude. And now taxpayers must fork over $5 trillion over the next thirty years, for the war and health care for the returning troops that don't commit suicide, a tragedy at unprecedented record levels.

Iraq is the greatest foriegn policy disaster in the history of the United States. Brought to you by a bunch of chickenhawks, aka NeoCons.

Aply & DW are delusional and making facts up in order to quell internal dissonance. Its the kind of dissonance that has resulted in the highest suicide rates ever for returning veterans. We lost the war under Shrub. The terms of peace were negotiated under the Bush administration which the Obama administration honored. Rebuilding something you just blew up may be better than just leaving it blown up, as is done to the Palestinians, but its not as good as not blowing it up in the first place. The invasion was sold as a humanitarian crusade, but was actually induced by panic when Hussein announced he would sell oil in Euros. There is nothing humanitarian about war, even though individuals are always free to act that way. Grotesque birth defects continue to plague the Iraqi population, which has lost all the important people that could afford to run away or were in the wrong place at the wrong time. Saddam Hussein was a monster of our own creation. We induced and supported his war against Iran, which required our WMD technology to keep it a stale mate. Otherwise iran would have demolished Iraq. Our Government doesn't care how monstrous a leader is, as long as they do things our way. Our military forces are a scourge on the planet and have a greater effect on our deficits than welfare, though less than a third of the bailout.

But all this is now Iraq's problems. The greatest damage to US and Israeli interests, caused by that foolish war, is the alliance which has emerged between Iran and Iraq. The new Iraq leadership loves Iran and hates the US. Its a religious thing and easily predicted blowback from that lost war.