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I am not quite sure, what you mean with Iraq being part of utopia building.
It was called "Nation Building", "Spreading Democracy" and the like. We were going to "make" Iraq into a Western style democracy, then all the ME would want it for themselves, which would head off a war with Islam. THAT is why the invasion was supposed to be worth it.
DIDN'T. WORK.
Because there was a huge disconnect with reality.
Utopia builders tend to be very skilled fantasists, they always have been.
EDIT: what we ended up showing was our incompetence, and through stuff like Abu Ghraib that our morals are for press releases not for actual use, which made Muslims even more sure than they already were that the West is not something to be admired or copied.
Several trillion dollars and many thousands of wrecked or ended lives bought us the exact opposite of what we were trying to buy.
Thus the elite lose their followers.
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