“It is a complex equation, and the U.S. government is ill-equipped to figure out how this is going to shake out,” a U.S. 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.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
So you guys didn’t bother to plan out what was going to happen after you overthrew Saddam’s Regime? Great…<\/p>\n
What a great message of freedom and democracy we’re sending to the people of Iraq and to the world- “We’ll let you choose your leaders, as long as we like them. So we’ll find some people we like and make sure they get elected.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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