The war was fine, lightning fast, and brilliantly executed. Debaathification, disbanding their military and government, imprisoning senior civilian and military leadership, and attempting to impose democracy through long term occupation, was disastrous. Instead of leaving the Iraqi military/government intact and allowing them to maintain order and crush any Islamist uprising, we drove them to join the insurgency.
Exactly!
The powers that be convinced themselves Iraqis were 1945 Germans!
Let’s just be real honest here.
The anti Iraq stance folks are taking here is identical to Obama Biden 2009 withdraw from Iraq.
That directly created ISIS. So congrats on that. Same stupid as Afghan withdrawal.
Bingo.