After all the miscalculations and billions wasted , projects screwed up , lives and limbs lost , foreign enemies made , American stature squandered , Taliban strength regained , North Korean bombs and Iran-Iraq alliances built -LRB- visiting the American-hating , Holocaust-denying Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad yesterday , Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki of Iraq called Iran '' a good friend and brother '' -RRB- Dick Cheney would n't do anything differently ?