To call the 2003 US invasion and
subsequent (and ongoing) occupation of Iraq a "mistake" would also be
highly inappropriate. The US war machine and its "coalition" knew
exactly what they were doing---the destruction of Iraq to seize the oil
fields and enrich the war profiteers has been highly successful for
them. The destructive US foreign policy is policy, not “oops, we just
fell into a war and made a mess.”
The consequences for today are
a horrid legacy of poverty and disease for the people of Iraq. Depleted
uranium and poisoned water and land are still killing the people there
and the US is still occupying the country despite the fraud of Commander
in Grief Obama ending the war in 2009; as agent orange and unexploded
land mines are still haunting the people of Vietnam, who "won" the war,
but have lost the peace.
-- Cindy Sheehan, "What's to Celebrate? Iraq, 15 Years Later" (CINDY SHEEHAN'S SOAPBOX).