Poor? How about nonexistent?

Hope is NOT a plan

And we're assuning that Iraq is going to remain a country for any appreciable amount of time. Not bloody likely. I bet that soon we'll be talking about the continuing warfare between Kurdistan, Sunnistan, and "what's-left-of-Iraq"-istan. And let's throw in Turkey and Iran while we're at it....

Let's face it, sanity checked out a long time ago.

Hyperbole and exaggeration only serves to stroke your own lack of sanity.