We Haven't Done Any Good At All In Iraq.. On The Contrary

Oh yeah.. we have them on the ropes.. We are winnnig this war! all we have to do is...
An article at TomPaine.com tells us what we have to do and what actually has been done:

Bush and Cheney had hoped to rescue their failure in Iraq by four interlocking measures: first, the creation of an independent Iraqi military and police force that could take on the insurgents; second, a gradual drawdown of U.S. forces in Iraq to placate U.S. domestic opposition to the war; third, the establishment of a modicum of security in Iraq, enough to allow economic reconstruction to proceed; and finally, the cobbling together of some sort of credible Iraqi government. Let's take those four, one by one.

First, late last week, in the midst of the Golden Dome explosion, the U.S. military quietly announced that the number of fully trained Iraqi army battalions capable of fighting independently had fallen from one to a grand total of zero— yes, zero — over the past three months. Said Army Col. Jeffrey Snow, seemingly without irony nearly three full years after the U.S. invasion: "The growth of a new army cannot be instantly realized."

Second, as 900 more Marines left Hawaii over the weekend for Iraq, and 7,000 more U.S. soldiers began preparing to head for Iraq soon, various U.S. military spokesmen began to drop broad hints that more, not less, U.S. forces might be needed in Iraq. According to Gen. Mark Kimmitt, "There might be a need for more American forces." According to the Army Times , Gen. George Casey, the commander of U.S. forces in Iraq, is deciding whether or not to ask for more troops. The 56-page quarterly report by the Pentagon dated February 17 said: "Coalition force levels will increase, if necessary, to defeat the enemy." It also noted that (even before the post-Golden Dome violence) that attacks on U.S. forces had risen to an all-time high of 550 per week since October.

Third, the security environment in Baghdad and surrounding provinces is worse, and more terrifying, than it has ever been. On SundayThe Washington Post reported :

The streets of the capital feel as unsafe as at any time since the 2003 invasion. As one U.S. major put it, Baghdad now resembles a pure Hobbesian state where all are at war against all others and any security is self-provided.

It's a Mad Max world. It's rule by mob, by militia, by gangs and warlords and renegade mosque leaders. The Independent , the British daily, says that as many as 1,000 Iraqis are being tortured to death or executed, largely by Shiite militia forces and rogue police, army and Interior Ministry units, citing as its source the United Nations' former human rights chief in Iraq.

And fourth, a stable government of national unity, if it ever was a possibility, is now nearly an impossibility. The Golden Dome bomb attack came nearly 10 weeks after the Dec. 15 election, and even then little or no progress had been made toward creating a government. The new parliament has yet to meet even once, missing its statutory deadline.
Post continues at TomPaine.com

So what did you say Americans are paying a possible 2 trillion dollars for in Iraq?