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We never had any real influence in Iraq, many who had power and money that fled Iraq propped us up as the great freer of the society. We achieved that pretty easy. Maybe hind sight and this could of happened with the beloved Al Gore or John Kerry was President and don't forget that either is after we nailed Saddam we should have throttled back and made the new Iraqi government stand up and be strong. No matter what Saddam was a threat either today or 10 years from now it is a fact and he needed out of power. But with doing that pandoras box opened to, it was gonna happen.
The only real mistake we made in Iraq was not hitting the terrorists hard enough soon enough. Half measures do not work in war. Al Sadr should have been killed years ago, but now he wields too much influence over Maliki.