1) The removal of Saddam Hussein's dictatorship.
To replace him with an Iranian like Theocracy and/or a civil war which could easily spread. Not brilliant by any sane test.
2) The ability to generate a new terror 'battlefield' outside the US.
No sane person wanted an other location to generate terrorists. This is an after the fact justification and in fact is insane! You don't create "fronts" to protect the USA you stop terrorists from attaining training and weapons (especially WMD of the Nuclear kind). Non of which Iraq helps with at all.
3) The ability to acquire a US staging area for the middle east.*
If you were talking of Afghanistan this would be true. But, it's not happening in Iraq over time. You are clueless! See the answer to your number one.
4) End any threat of WMD coming from Iraq.
Again see my answer to you first number.
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- Neocons acknowledge Iraq a failure.
- Iraq failure or success TBD very soon.
- It keeps the war machine going strong, a neocon's sacred cow.
- Reality: Iraq a resounding success
- Saddam is no longer murdering his people. Iraqis voting = progress.
- So democracy's working there? How's your take on Hamas?
- Instead Iraqis are murdering each other