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Defense contracts actually stated that the longer we stayed in Iraq, the more money the generals would make.
Not to mention the Military-Industrial Complex. War is Good For Business. Which brings us to the real reason why the US conquered Iraq, and why the US feels the need to have hundreds of military bases all over the world, and why Beltway Washington has gone neocon: it's profitable to the MIC.
So far as the MIC is concerned, any motivation for more militarism and more war is a good one. Friedman and Hiatt are employed to provide the cover story by coming up with plausible lies. They're just a couple of the many neoconservative propagandists who have been useful to the MIC in promoting US imperialism and globalism. They really have no other purpose, and nothing to say about anything which does not advocate corporatism and militarism, either directly or indirectly.
Friedman and Hiatt know full well they aren't keeping their stories straight and care about that as little as any other con artist. They're paid professional weasels and make no apologies. They're just doing a job, selling out the country to the war profiteers and subsidiary greedmongers, any way they can.
read NYT's take on General McCafferty.
It makes it pretty obvious that the MIC is running the show, and that the MIC is more than willing to bankrupt the US to get a few more boatloads of money sailing their way.
