An Iraqi sheikh who doesn't want to make the same mistake the Vietnamese did:

"One thing Sheikh Sattar keeps saying is he wants al-Anbar to be like Germany and Japan and South Korea were after their respective wars, with a long-term American presence helping ... put them back together," MacFarland said. "The negative example he cites is Vietnam. He says, yeah, so, Vietnam beat the Americans, and what did it get them? You know, 30 years later, they’re still living in poverty."

And don't forget the cautionary example of the Duchy of Grand Fenwick.

So far the occupation hasn't resulted in much
improvement in life for the iraqi's.

I daresay the current fighting in Iraq is a lot easier on the general Iraqi population than the fighting during the Iran/Iraq war!

Saddam's idiocy forced the Iraqi people into three wars with the outside world. Good thing for the Iraqi people that Saddam didn't survive the third one.

Not much good A.M.? Doesn't that depend ENTIRELY upon the region in Iraq that you happen to be talking about. Northern Iraq's quality of life has soared...but I suppose you don't count them because they're actually DOING SOMETHING to capitalize on the end of a dictatorship.

Let me know when the car bombs stop in kirkuk

That's just ONE city sparky. Wake the heck up and READ.