"Until an actual government is formed that wants to be part of the rest of the world. " That's what they had. The yanks, believing in Manifest Destiny, a lie they made up (that it's God's Manifest Destiny that the "White American Race" own all trade, assets, resources and money in the whole world. That is, the world. Destabilised the Middle East.

By all accounts, Iraq was a good place to live once. If you could speak the language. Not just during the British Empire but for a few years afterwards.

Why did Britain and so on take part in the illegal invasion of Iraq? For the same reason they condemn Russia doing the same thing in Ukraine: corrupt politicians who invested in Basic Industries Group. To prevent the yanks seizing their accounts without pay (the investments are not declared and the operations illegal) they obey the yanks. And there had been no large, low cost oil finds since 2000, except in Iraq. Plus juicy contracts and higher interest paid on government debt during war. Whilst the Arabs look with glee at the defeat of the yanks in the Middle East, the people who actually started the war had won before the first shot was fired. If anyone, China, Russia, so on, could get hold of the Basic Industries Group investor list, it would make an awesome kill list. It would completely stabilise the world - no yanks sailing a fleet up the Chinese coast, saying "We can do what we want.", so no triggering the Maoist doctrine that "The best form of defense is attack.", so no nine dotted line, no coming war on Taiwan. Just for starters.