I made one typo there....it should say 1991 where I typed 1998. The Gulf War was in 1991, and it was a complete defeat of Iraq's military ambitions regarding Kuwait (or any other neighbour of Iraq). It rendered Iraq quite ineffective as a real threat to any its neighbours from that point on. The 2003 attack was completely unnecessary, completely unjustified, and based on completely false evidence of "WMDs", evidence which I am quite sure was known to BE false by the US administration at the time, because it was nothing more than a phony PR excuse to justify what they wanted to do anyway all along. Occupy Iraq.

They didn't do it to bring democracy to Iraq. They did it to bring American control over Iraq and its resources, and to establish military bases there for further operations in the region, in my opinion.

America never goes anywhere in the world to "bring democracy" and never has done so. America doesn't even frikkin' well HAVE a real democracy of its own. (It just has the superficial pretense of one run by an oligarchy, a rich elite who control both the Democratic and the Republican parties, and who make sure that both those parties serve the will of that elite without exception, once in office.)