Bad as Obama is, anyone with any sense of the situation in Iraq should have known that removing Saddam would lead to a civil war between the Sunnis and the Shia. Yeah, Saddam was a thug, but so is everyone else over there, and he at least kept the radical Muslims in line and kept Iran in check. Everything the US did in Iraq was a colossal mistake from the get go. You can thank Bush, Cheney, Wolfowitz, etc. for the massive blunder in thinking they could remake the Middle East.
As usual, politicians make stupid decisions and the soldiers and Marines pay the price.
Saddam tried to kill Bush’s daddy.
That’s what got us into Iraq eventually.
And what about the Air Force ? If we had not removed Saddam we would still be enforcing the no fly zone in Iraq. For 15 years now. And Saddam even had the gall to attack the Kurds with a major land force under the no fly zone. He boosted about that in one of the classified documents temporarily available on the web.