[Octavian]

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I think that Israel, considering the players from the admin. that played a major and fundamental role, played a major role in the reasoning for going into Iraq and I think that the admin. did truly believe that they could wave a flag of democracy at the people and they would dance in the streets, singing and laughing... the oil would start fountaining from the ground, like pools in Beverly Hills, the surrounding nations would applaud the ousting of such a odious leader such as Saddam....etc.

So they believed, truly, that they could implant Malachy, a man who had not been in Iraq for some 20+ years, and poof! a democratic nation appears.

They underestimated the situation and they underestimated their own ability to estimate the situation. A complete and fundamental break down in planning, reasoning and touch with reality starved our ability to effectively move into and occupy Iraq and I think it all hearkens back to the primarily observation of Neo-Conservativism: it is brash, authoritarian, brazenly arrogant and from all of those, utterly out of touch with reality.

Neo-conservativism is in its own right, already outdated and inept in a globalized world. Those leaders from this administration found that they could not function in Iraq and they certainly could not function on a global scale, where the US, despite being a military powerhouse, was not the economic untouchable that they thought it to be. Another result of their line of thought is that they are in a position of power, therefore, they are the makers of reality for all those around them. Of course, that is folly and the rest is history.