So what has been achieved? Saddam is gone, which is good. But: The US and the Brits apparently totally underestimated the amount of work needed after the war. Chaos still rules, electricity and other basic elements of infrastructure are still not working in most parts of Iraq. As a consequence, Jay Garner and other people were replaced to get things off the ground faster.

And all of a sudden, the American government is willing to have the U.N. play a bigger role in post-war Iraq than before - I guess, because they finally realized how much reconstruction will cost them.

The Americans have failed to achieve most of their purported war goals:

• No weapons of mass-destruction have been found.
• Terrorism hasn't subsided because of the ousting of Saddam, rather the contrary is true.
• Iraqis aren't so keen to have allied soldiers and government run their affairs for them, as people like this jerk Wolfowitz foretold.

To get Iraq flying again as a country will keep the U.S. - and the world community- quite busy for a long time and I can't say I pity them. You reap, what you sow!