What a surprise? Nation building? So it wasn't WMD?

So Bush's promise not to nation build was a bald face lie?


The chairman of the British Joint Intelligence Committee in 2001 told
investigators Monday that elements of the Bush Administration were
pushing for regime change in Iraq in early 2001, months before the
9/11 attacks and two years before President George W. Bush formally
announced the Iraq war.

Sir Peter Ricketts, now-Secretary at the Foreign Office, said that US
and British officials believed at the time that measures against Iraq
were failing: "sanctions, an incentive to lift sanctions if Saddam
allowed the United Weapons inspectors to return, and the 'no fly'
zones over the north and south of the country."

Ricketts also said that US officials had raised the prospect of regime
change in Iraq, asserting that the British weren't supportive of the
idea at the time.

"We were conscious that there were other voices in Washington, some of
whom were talking about regime change," Ricketts said.

The head of the British Foreign Office's Middle East department, Sir
William Patey, told the inquiry that his office was aware of regime
change talk from some parts of the Bush Administration shortly after
they took office in 2001.