Bush wasn’t conned. Saddam was about to be unleashed by the UN. There were 3 historical stages: 1) Iran/Iraq war - we supported both sides, letting them murder each other as long as possible. 2) Gulf War 1 - Saddam contained 3) Saddam overthrown - he was about to be unleashed by all the UN types who were complaining about how the containment was hurting the Iraqis who could no longer get medicine etc. Bush gambled that a democratic Iraq was worth the gamble and that Saddam no longer was a reliable deterrent to Iran.
Obama screwed up Libya and Egypt. Syria has been untenable.
Thank God Sisi un-screwed Egypt.
I think we’ve unravelled all the trouble-making to.. Turkey.