When a Christian can go buy a pack of smokes, a ham, Christmas tree and Playboy all in one stop like in the Baghdad prior to the war I'll consider things a success.
seems to me that we really have NO RIGHT to invade a nation, in order to make it something "we" approve of. What is important is what the Iraqis want. They want the empire OUT of their country,, never wanted to live under the terror of war, never wanted to lose the lives of so many of their own so that the empires leader could get his revenge and whatever the motives were. We cannot afford to forget that the "reasons er excuses " continued to change even after they had gone of militarily into Baghdad......in a drama worthy of hollywood.
We also cannot afford to forget that SH was the empires friend .....until he decided to make some independant decisions that the empire did not like.
Things would have changed there anyhow. It would have taken longer but it would have been achieved by the people ,