The purpose of the war was to establish a democratic and united Iraq, which is now falling apart in a civil war, Galbraith said, adding that the next US president would have to withdraw US troops from Iraq.
Galbraith said that the Balkanisation of Iraq was the best solution, including the establishment of an independent Kurdistan and states of the pro-Iranian Shiite and the Sunni Arabs.
Comparing the US interventions in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo with the one in Iraq, Galbraith said the Clinton administration had known what it wanted.
Unlike Bush's campaign in Iraq, Clinton sent a strong military force to Bosnia-Herzegovina and Kosovo, which was accepted by the local populations, Galbraith said.
Asked if his Iraq model regarding the break-up of multiethnic countries could apply to Bosnia-Herzegovina, Galbraith recalled that the Bosnian Serb entity was founded on genocide and ethnic cleansing of local Bosniaks and Croats.
Asked how it was possible for the US administration to be pursuing an undemocratic policy in Iraq, Galbraith said the world needed to understand that the US democracy was not perfect.
He was also hopeful that the next US president would work to restore the country's international reputation and correct mistakes in the functioning of US democratic institutions.
Galbraith's book was published by the Zagreb publishing house V.B.Z. The author writes in ten chapters about the establishment of an independent Kurdistan, civil war, the resolution of the Iraqi crisis through the establishment of three states, and US withdrawal from the region.