if we did our homework

which we did NOT do, we would have known about the troubles we would be causing when we unjustly, illegally and immorally invaded iraq. of course iraq NEVER did anything to provoke us. they didn't fly planes into a field in pa, or the pentagon or the world trade center. they didn't have weapons of mass destruction. they really didn't have any terrorists. well they do now and WE helped to create them.

look at the mess that CONTINUES to happen. this is going to go on for GENERATIONS

As British Leave, Basra Deteriorates
Violence Rises in Shiite City Once Called a Success Storya


By Karen DeYoung and Thomas E. Ricks Washington Post Staff Writers

As British forces pull back from Basra in southern Iraq, Shiite militias there have escalated a violent battle against each other for political supremacy and control over oil resources, deepening concerns among some U.S. officials in Baghdad that elements of Iraq's Shiite-dominated national government will turn on one another once U.S. troops begin to draw down.
Three major Shiite political groups are locked in a bloody conflict that has left the city in the hands of militias and criminal gangs, whose control extends to municipal offices and neighborhood streets. The city is plagued by "the systematic misuse of official institutions, political assassinations, tribal vendettas, neighborhood vigilantism and enforcement of social mores, together with the rise of criminal mafias that increasingly intermingle with political actors," a recent report by the International Crisis Group said............