Mission Accomplished?

Last night on The Daily Show (one of my primary sources of news- LOL) Jon Stewart made the observation that it appears that in a way we've managed to accomplish what we set out to do in Iraq: we've turned it into the country that we said we were invading in 2003. It's become a breeding ground for terrorism, the borders have been destabilized, and we turned a nation that was at peace within itself into a hotbed of civil unrest. Anti-American sentiment is at an all time high, and money and volunteers are pouring into terrorist training camps throughout the Middle East.

Might this not be the Mission we set out to accomplish? The American oil industry is seeing record profits, Haliburton and other administration favorites have absconded with billions, thousands of new Federal jobs have been created thanks to the "war on terror", and we've assured that military spending- long a top Republican priority- will continue to rise as we deal with a whole host of new security threats.