I think doing good for the Iraqis was completely off the table (or regarded as an agreeable bonus by the administration); while I am nowhere near educated enough to formulate any intelligent theory about it, there's no doubt in my mind that everything that administration did was for the good of America, or the good of itself. The Republican party has spent the last twenty years (at least) in the control of American exceptionalists, or worse, people who claim to be. Nothing was done for the good of the Iraqi people.