From the start, I knew that it was a waste of lives, time and money to try to bring democracy to that country. Those people needed to be ruled by an iron-handed brutal dictator, to keep them from killing each other and themselves.
Bush meant well, but had high hopes that savages could be brought into the modern world by toppling Saddam.
I don’t think most of ISIS is Iraqi- it originally sprang from a Palestinian terrorist bunch commanded by a Jordanian Palestinian terrorist. Though there were some Iraqi intel officers in its ranks from the start.