Iran naturally filled that vacuum once Saddam was removed. Iran is better off now, than before.
This idea that stability was going to be the ruling stasis is absurd. Reagan and Bush senior had good reason to keep Saddam in power, and that wisdom was ignored by this new breed of do good conservatism.
Now the entire ME is aflame, and Obama can be blamed, but not all of it is his fault. Bush couldn't get a SOFA, how the hell was Obama too?
Are we better off now. No, the Christan winter in the ME will continue, and Islam will continue to be Islam, marching across the sands like a plague.
Even here on FR everything is Bush's Fault.
Here are two videos of the Obama Administration claiming Iraq is one of the Administration's “Greatest Achievements”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOcPCrGRs6k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6BoQp2yBZE
Now your LIBERAL revision of history is disgusting.
I think the cliche “You’re over the target” is apropos.
Watch your back; I wear my scars, too...