After 9/11, it was hard to argue that things could get worse. There was a reasonable guess that things could get better. Added with all the other attributes of the situation, The U.S. Senate and the American polity agreed to invade Iraq. Bush led, and America wanted it too. So, we were in it together. Including Clinton and Kerry.
“Foolish” is easy to identify retroactively. A few thought it foolish at the time, but they lost politically. That’s the way the ball bounces.
Bush didn’t lose the roll of the dice. 0bama walked away and lost the game that Bush had either won or drawn to a tie.
America and the West will pay dearly for 0bama’s continuous support of Islam against Western Civilization.
Let’s put the blame squarely where it belongs: The President who sells us out to our enemies each and every day.
Bush crapped out. There were no weapons of mass destruction. 4000+ Americans were killed. Tens of thousands of locals were killed producing thousands of AQ recruits, metastasizing terrorism. The enemy of Iran was blasted. Bush didn’t want democracy by majority rule, Bush wanted to hang Saddam and get a puppet. We should have got out after the 1st Gulf war.