non so se c'è ancora qualcuno convinto che la guerra in iraq sia stata una scelta giusta. in tal caso, gli consiglierei di leggere questa mail di un inviato del wall street journal.

particolarmente interessanti, tra gli altri, i passaggi: 
..If under Saddam it was a 'potential' threat, under the Americans it has been transformed to 'imminent and active threat,'..
..As for reconstruction: firstly it's so unsafe for foreigners to operate that almost all projects have come to a halt. After two years, of the $18 billion Congress appropriated for Iraq reconstruction only about $1 billion or so has been spent...
.. The Iraqi government is talking about having elections in three months while half of the country remains a 'no go zone'-out of the hands of  the government and the Americans and out of reach of journalists. In  the other half, the disenchanted population is too terrified to show  up at polling stations..