read more.......from asia times online....
"The Pentagon officially pronounced its US$3 trillion-and-counting, "war on terror"-related invasion, occupation and decimation of the Iraqi nation dead on Thursday even as the country prepared for a low-intensity Sunni-Shi'ite civil war and the Muslim world wondered whatever happened to the George W Bush administration's Greater Middle East.
In an open-air cement bunker at the former Baghdad airport turned military base, Pentagon chief Leon Panetta praised more than one million Americans in uniform or in mercenary gear for "the remarkable progress" in death and destruction accomplished over the past nine years, but acknowledged the severe challenges that faced the virtually devastated country."
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