How could U.S. policy have failed so miserably in Iraq?

The simple, disgusting truth is that it has not.
The destruction of Iraqi society was and is deliberate.

Gulf War I and sanctions left Iraq weakened and militarily impotent. There was absolutely no strategic purpose served by the destruction of Iraq’s water, electricity, education and medical infrastructure - yet that is what was done. It was never Saddam’s regime nor the engine of his authoritarian rule that was targeted, it was the progressive and positive results, including purely intellectual assets. This is not a new strategy:

Why are libraries targets?.... Worst of all is when they are deliberately targeted as part of a systematic destruction of a community’s collective knowledge. This article will look at the destruction of libraries and similar institutions during the recent war in Yugoslavia, the efforts to protect such institutions during war, and various attempts to re-build them afterwards.
http://worldlylibrarian.files.wordpress.com/2008/09/deliberate-destruction-of-libraries-in-wartime.pdf

“Baghdad was considered the ’Paris’ of the Arab world, in terms of culture and art, science and education. The destruction of the scientific, academic, cultural and legal foundations of an independent state means increasing reliance on the Western multinational corporations and their technical infrastructure, thereby facilitating imperial economic penetration and exploitation. In this piece, James Petras analyses the forces, strategies and converging interests that have contributed to the deliberate dismemberment of Iraqi society at every level”
http://www.voltairenet.org/article161837.html

This strategy was predicted in 1982:

“..... Ze’ev Schiff, the military correspondent of Ha’aretz (and probably the most knowledgeable in Israel, on this topic) writes about the “best” that can happen for Israeli interests in Iraq: “The dissolution of Iraq into a Shi’ite state, a Sunni state and the separation of the Kurdish part” (Ha’aretz 6/2/1982)

“Iraq, rich in oil on the one hand and internally torn on the other, is guaranteed as a candidate for Israel’s targets. Its dissolution is even more important for us than that of Syria. Iraq is stronger than Syria. In the short run it is Iraqi power which constitutes the greatest threat to Israel. An Iraqi-Iranian war will tear Iraq apart and cause its downfall at home even before it is able to organize a struggle on a wide front against us. Every kind of inter-Arab confrontation will assist us in the short run and will shorten the way to the more important aim of breaking up Iraq into denominations as in Syria and in Lebanon.”
A Strategy for Israel in the Nineteen Eighties
by Oded Yinon

http://cosmos.ucc.ie/cs1064/jabowen/IPSC/articles/article0005345.html

Further reading:
http://cgi.stanford.edu/group/wais/cgi-bin/?p=2248

Contrary to expectations, Iran survived the neo-con inspired Iran/Iraq war and stands ready to aid the reconstruction of Iraqi society. Iran is therefore the current target.

The Surge is working. Bush Inc. was right all along. It’ll work in
Afghanistan, too.

Here is where my money is….

There is a CIA station chief behind every bit of the
recent violence since the elections.
It is EASY to figure out, as most of US crap is.

All “non-combatant” (what the f… that means) troops
are supposed to exit by Augest, this is a signed treaty
with the Iraqi government.
Obama, for the last six months has said, we will only
withdraw them if there is no violence surrounding the
elections.
YOU ALL CAN DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS, I ALREADY HAVE
DRAWN MINE…..

According to propagan-duh pundits on talk hate radio and corp-rat tell-lie-vision (Mr. Oxycontin, the O’Reilly Fuker, et. al.), the glorious (sic) invasion and occupation of Iraq-nam has been a marvelous success!

Yesss… we the people of the United $tates of Perpetual War Profiteering have supposed-lie freed the peoples of Iraq-nam (from communism, etc.)... after $pending a trillion plus dollars and killing 1.35 million of Iraqis (not to mention future Iraqi deaths from the depeted uranium weaponry).

Mean, mean, meanwhile… Amerika’s glorious (sic) troops are fighting in Afghanistan-nam to… ah… er… $upport hero-in in the veins for President Karzai and his family Indeed! There’s no oil in Afghanistan-nam; the reason Amerika is there is the hundreds of billions in drrrug profits propping up the dollar (or what’s left of it).

1. WHERE THERE IS NO INSIGHT, THE PEOPLE PERISH!
2. WHOM THE GODS WOULD DESTROY, THEY FIRST MAKE MAD(off).

This is why Rome is burning! We are living the last daze of the capitalist/fascist Amerikan empire! Alas! Amerika has morphed into a vicious and violent beast, a cruel and evil beast that tempts fate and invites a horrifying karma begging for nuclear evaporation! And as Amerika goes… so goes it’s masters in the ethno-racist apartheid theo-crazy of Israel, the biggest criminal $yndicate on the planet.

One more reason we should leave.

It is getting close to the Augest deadline,,,,

guess who is stirring up trouble for an excuse to
keep permanent bases and troops ???
You wouldn’t believe, would you???
Truth is,  we don’t know the truth ,,,,,,,,,
investigative reporters get shot !!!!!!!!!!!!!