Pragmatically, it all comes down to this: are they (the Iraqis) better off now or worst? - watching at what is going on there day by day, I doubt the answer can be "yes, they are better off." It's worse.
Theoretically, it all comes down to this: has any of the major pre-war assumptions and declarations of the war-wanting authorities in the West and in the US beeing found to be true? - Quite the opposite.
Historically, it all comes down to this: will the outcome of the war and the post-war history of Iraq and the kind of nation it will become reflect the results (amongst others) that the war had intended to cause? - The difference cannot be bigger.
What it all means? It means that it is too late now to ask the right questions. The messup is done.
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