The csuse was Obama and Hillary’s policy
According to a study compiled by United States intelligence agencies in early 2007, the ISI planned to seize power in the central and western areas of Iraq and turn it into a Sunni caliphate.[94] The group built in strength and at its height enjoyed a significant presence in the Iraqi governorates of Al Anbar, Diyala and Baghdad, claiming Baqubah as a capital city.[95][96][97][98]
The Iraq War troop surge of 2007 supplied the United States military with more manpower for operations targeting the group, resulting in dozens of high-level AQI members being captured or killed.[99]
Between July and October 2007, al-Qaeda in Iraq was reported to have lost its secure military bases in Al Anbar province and the Baghdad area.[100] During 2008, a series of US and Iraqi offensives managed to drive out AQI-aligned insurgents from their former safe havens, such as the Diyala and Al Anbar governorates, to the area of the northern city of Mosul.[101]
By 2008, the ISI was describing itself as being in a state of “extraordinary crisis”.[102] Its violent attempts to govern its territory led to a backlash from Sunni Arab Iraqis and other insurgent groups and a temporary decline in the group, which was attributable to a number of factors,[103] notably the Anbar Awakening.
In late 2009, the commander of US forces in Iraq, General Ray Odierno, stated that the ISI “has transformed significantly in the last two years. What once was dominated by foreign individuals has now become more and more dominated by Iraqi citizens”.[104] On 18 April 2010, the ISI’s two top leaders, Abu Ayyub al-Masri and Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, were killed in a joint US-Iraqi raid near Tikrit.[105] In a press conference in June 2010, General Odierno reported that 80% of the ISI’s top 42 leaders, including recruiters and financiers, had been killed or captured, with only eight remaining at large. He said that they had been cut off from al-Qaeda’s leadership in Pakistan.[106][107][108]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_State_of_Iraq_and_the_Levant
Not the wars fault, it’s Iranian influence. Influence that would not be present were it not for the war. Got it.
Look, I’m not a fan of Saddam Hussein, but none of the conflicts listed above would have occurred if he were still in charge.
Bush won the war and screwed up afterwards. WHy the hell didn’t he authorize the execution of this radical monster when we had the country over? WHy did he allow him to continue to spout his anti-western Hate? Why did the Bush administration permit the Iraqis to set up a Sharia Based government, a recipe for sure disaster considering the Sunni Shiite feud? WHy did the Bush administration do NOTHING to protect Iraqi Christian communities in Iraq?
Maybe our involvement in Iraq had more to do with the fears of the Saudi Sheiks about Saddam, the Bush family’s connections to the Saudis and the Saudi need for Dhimmi bodies to fight for them than anything else.
Fundamental Sunnis consider Shiites heretics, and regularly kill them when the opportunity presents itself.
That is why there won't be any peace in Iraq, now that Saadam is gone and the warring Islamic factions can't be kept apart.
Christians won't be protected from either Muslim faction now. -Tom