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The goal is protecting US national security interest in the Persian Gulf. That was accomplished by removing SADDAM and replacing it with a government that was not a threat or hostile towards the region and could bring some level of stability to Iraq without US troops on the ground. Guess what, the United States accomplished all of that. The current Maliki government meets all those conditions!
That's odd, the same ideas were cited when the US put Saddam into power.