"Armies have instead brought a misery worse than under the cruellest of modern dictators "
Not surprised one bit.
We need to pull out and let the chips fall where they may.
Bring our soldiers and equipment back home to protect THIS country and let the private corporations running the oil fields and reconstruction contracts PAY for their own security. Seeing as they have the highest record profits, or most "missing" monies when audited.
I'd also like to see Cheney's list of energy executives from three years ago, and see if THAT was an agreement to go in using our military and divvy up the profits among themselves.