The Washington Post reports that an Iraqi government with ties to Iran was the last result the Bush administration wanted after it toppled Saddam Hussein’s government. Middle East analyst Juan Cole told the Washington Post “In terms of regional geopolitics, this is not the outcome that the United States was hoping for.” Rami Khouri, an editor of Beirut’s Daily Star added “The idea that the United States would get a quick, stable, prosperous, pro-American and pro-Israel Iraq has not happened.” Khouri went on to say “Most of the neoconservative assumptions about what would happen have proven false.”