ZIM:
You left out one date: August 2003, when the U.S. Commerce Dept urged American businessmen to get their feet on the ground in Iraq, under the protection of the U.S. military and U.S. security mercenaries paid for by U.S. taxpayers.
Iraq was described as a "blank slate" ripe for exploitation with no official opposition. We'd write all the rules and control any new Iraqi government. Everything was going to be swell! Wall-to-wall fundy churches and BurgerKings throughout Baghdad, and oil contracts for all of Bush's Friends. They were even going to open a pipeline from Mosul to Haifa so Israelis could steal Iraq's oil also.
Then those darn Iraqis showed their ingratitude by not rolling over and sucking up. Instead they started hurling bombs and screwed up all the nice Neocon plans.
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