re: Religious power
In a few years, everyone will see if it's worth it or not.
In a few years, you'll be able to blame the UN (after the US will have gone back home) for having allowed Iraq to become an islamist republic.
But the world will know who made it possible: your dear president.
Nature hates vacuum and there's a vacuum of power as well as democracy in Iraq. The only kind of power capable of filling up that void are the religious groups.
Goodbye freedom for Iraqi women.
Was it worth the loss of so many lives?
Raoul