The disorganized Iraqi threat the invasion cited turned into a daunting sociopolitical war

Evidence

The Iraqi regime, depicted as posing an imminent grave biochemical threat to international security, conspiring with terrorists, and poised to unleash weapons of mass destruction if attacked, was speedily routed, proving to be an enemy of disorganized and rogue combatants rather than a mighty military machine. Geopolitical disputes arose over who should preside over and reap lucrative contracts for the nation’s reconstruction. With Saddam’s removal, the power vacuum in this deeply fissured, multireligious nation was quickly filled by exiles with political ambitions, ethnic separatists, and clerics jockeying for power to turn a pluralistic, secular country into an Islamic theocracy. The sociopolitical war presented more daunting challenges than did the military one. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2360

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 2360
• XREF: connects to: Iraqi resistance forced US strategy from conquest to counterinsurgency hearts-and-minds tactics