[Phil the anorak]

Iraq has a resourceful and reasonably well educated society and essentially what they need is help in the way of materiel and some technical assistance.

The problem is that this isn't what Bush and co wants. They want a subservient population and an oil industry fully controlled by the likes of exxon.

Add to that a population that doesn't really want a western orientated society and there's a recipe for disaster. Bush and co have totally overestimated how grateful the Iraqi's are for being liberated which has been lukewarm at best due to the inability to maintain a reasonable law and order standard and consequently not being able to do much in the way of restoring the country.