Look, I voted for Bush-Cheney twice. But the Iraq war was a neocon con. Saddam was a horrible bastard, but there are a lot of horrible bastard running countries around the world. We can’t police the whole world. Saddam had no involvement in 9/11. To opportunistically use the country’s justified anger about 9/11 as the basis for pursuing neocon dreams of taking out Saddam in the name of “nation building” was insanity. The toll in blood and treasure was mind-boggling. The Bushes can shove it.
The most bizarre thing - when Bush took out Saddam Hussein, he turned most of Iraq into a province of Iran, making Iran that much stronger, and creating a "Shiite Crescent" of Iranian control, from western Afghanistan to Lebanon, and turning Hezbollah into the main power in Lebanon
And to counter that, the neocons were then required to overthrow Assad (and create a huge migrant crisis in Europe), which also failed. So then we must keep bases in Eastern Syria. And here we are, 20 years later, talking about war with Iran.
These people go from one disastrous folly to another.