Mission NOT Accomplished -- Juan Cole

Well sounds like Bush, Cheney, Halliburton Inc. kinda screwed things up:

' the Bush administration cannot have been filled with joy when Iraqi Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and eight high-powered cabinet ministers paid an extremely friendly visit to Tehran this week. The two governments went into a tizzy of wheeling and dealing of a sort not seen since Texas oil millionaires found out about Saudi Arabia. Oil pipelines, port access, pilgrimage, trade, security, military assistance, were all on the table in Tehran. All the sorts of contracts and deals that U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney had imagined for Halliburton, and that the Pentagon neoconservatives had hoped for Israel, were heading instead due east. Jaafari's visit was a blow to the Bush administration's strategic vision, but a sweet triumph for political Shiism.

--http://www.juancole.com/

Serves them bloody right if you ask me... "Oh what a tangled web we weave" etc etc.

No doubt Bush and Scotty will come out with some line that this was the original goal -- "We meant to hand Iraq and the oil over to the Shiites and create an Iraq-Iran alliance!"

Oh and all that "freedom" we're spreading won't apply to the women -- the draft constitution (as has been noted elsewhere) says they will be under "local religious law." Want to divorce that wife? Just say it out loud three times...