US troops are still in Iraq. The US government thinks it has a right to dictate policy to the Iraqi government. The US government is working very hard to try to persuade the Iraqi government to sign an agreement to let US forces remain in that country indefinitely. The US is still trying to persuade the Iraqi legislature to sign away Iraq's rights to its oil, and to agree that US forces and private contractors will not be accountable to Iraqi law. There are US bases in Iraq now, and they were built as permanent bases, not as temporary bases.

The goal was not to stabilize and rebuild Iraq. The goal was to create a pretext for maintaining permanent bases in Iraq.