Great point. Hearts and minds are best won with the pocketbook.
"We would have hired Iraqi firms to contract construction projects and they would have done them for a fraction of what we have paid to the likes of Halliburton and Bechtel, who have absconded with the money and done no work at all...
We could have built good will for the US and everyone would have applauded. Instead we have looted, murdered and destroyed everything and everyone who was in our line of fire. Very very stupid and it is going to cost us...
Is it in our vital national interest to act like flaming idiots on the world stage?"
Who better than Dubya to act like a flaming idoit on the world stage? The neo/theos needed a shill. Dubya was perfect.