The Invasion of Iraq Accomplished What??

Registering New Influence, Iran Sends a Top Aide to Iraq - New York Times

BAGHDAD, Iraq, May 17 - Wasting little time in registering its new influence in Iraq, Iran sent its foreign minister to Baghdad on Tuesday only 48 hours after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice became the first high-level visitor to hold talks with Iraq's new Shiite-majority government.


The arrival of the Iranian, Kamal Kharrazi, underscored changes in the political landscape that many Iraqis find dizzying: almost 25 years after Iraq and Iran started an eight-year war that left a million people dead, the government in Baghdad is now led by officials with close personal, religious and political ties to Iran's ruling Shiite ayatollahs.


Iraqi officials who greeted Mr. Kharrazi acknowledged that the timing of his arrival, so soon after Ms. Rice's 12-hour visit on Sunday, was not chance. "The political message of this visit is very important, notably in its timing," said Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari of Iraq, who at one point broke into fluent Persian, Iran's principal language, during a news conference with Mr. Kharrazi.

Remember how invading Iraqi would create an Arab ally in the Middle East? Remember who told Bush that? Chalabi, exposed as an Iranian spy is now leading the Baathist purge from government in Iraq, ensuring a thriving insurgency.
And now, Iraqi leadership is sending a message to the world, after the US leaves, Iran will always be there, as an ally and a friend. Iran now influences more oil, more Shiites, and more politics than ever before. All because the Neo-cons thought they knew something when they were being played by an Iranian spy. Don't people with national security responsibility get reprimanded, demoted or even fired for being cowed by a spy?