Whichever way the wind blows. That still doesn't take away from my point that he feeds his followers red meat like this.
It's an unnecessary stirring of the poop pot. Hitler and Nazis were murdering filth. Stalin and the U.S.S.R. were vile in their bloodlust. Anyone with an ounce of sense and common decency can see this.
As far as the rest of it, if "if" was a fifth of Jack, I'd be drunk. That's a game that bores me, frankly. We will be able to judge our actions in Iraq on their own merit in due time. That time is not now so any speculation is specious in the extreme.