The ISG report.

[innonimatu]

Go and find out how many people voted in the Iraqi elections and then get back to me.

How is that relevant to my claim that the current iraqui government dares not leave the green zone without military protection, and does not control the country?

You have it all wrong. Iraq was already an anti-Iran platform under Saddam. If all we wanted was a counter to Iran, we simply had to do nothing.

Ah, but it so happened that it was also anti-american. More anti-american than anti-iranian. It would never help the US "change the Middle East".
On change, I believe you mean it like like: "Se vogliamo che tutto rimanga come è, bisogna che tutto cambi."