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Entry: "We're Making Progress in Iraq"--Towards What? Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/were_making_progress_in_iraq_towards_what#23306 Post contents: sorry, just a bit of jocularity, eh wot? No offense intended. "Our" task in Iraq "ought" to be to pay reparations for all the damage we've done and then get out. I think Jim Lang nailed it above - the real goals (there can't be just one, though oil is most assuredly chief among the reasons) were never any of the stated rationales, which changed with the seasons. I think the whole lot of them are evil but i don't think they are as stupid as they are happy to have everyone believe they are. They definitely achieved what they wanted to achieve. I'd also like to point out that this all is nothing new and that when the dreaded neocons are gone, having served their purpose, future administrations will continue to do the same thing. Didn't Smedley Butler write about this a long time ago? Sent at: 2008 11 23