No shit. I could have told you that years ago.
Why couldn't anyone else see it?
Especially your leader.

(No wait, we HAD to invade because of dangerous, ever present weapons of mass destruction! And Sadam was in bed with Al Queda!
We HAD to get Bin Laden............remember "Get Bin Laden! Dead man walking)

Aw shucks, we ended up giving them democracy, or trying to at least. Those damn ungrateful desert savages! Why even SDAI admits they're not ready for a democracy! You can take an Iraqi out of the desert, but you can't take the desert out of an Iraqi.........

When I look around this country, I can see SO MANY better ways all those BILLIONS of dollars could have been spent. Starting with securing our borders and throwing some money into education.
Naw, that would have been realistic and wouldn't have benefitted those in power in any way, shape or form.
Drats.