RE: Maybe it was a good idea, and maybe it wasn’t ... but it sure as hell wasn’t done because of any “imminent attack” on anything.
So, your reasoning sounds like this — our military intelligence LIES like every other government bureaucracy does and the recent attacks on our embassy is just a one time thing that will not be repeated anyway.
No. My point is that President Trump doesn't need military intelligence to tell him that the U.S. embassy in Baghdad is vulnerable to attack from Islamic mutants.
President Trump himself described the George W. Bush decision to invade Iraq as one of the worst blunders in the history of our country. If it were up to Trump, the U.S. embassy wouldn't even be there.