Of course that chance has now been shot to hell by the destruction deliberately inflicted by Obama, who was determined to make "Bush's war" a failure. Obama, infatuated with himself (and under the illusion that all historians would always be as gullible as the Nobel Committee), thought that his base political motives for destroying Iraq would never be exposed. But it looks as if he is already being proved wrong on that assessment.
And btw, I still respect Dick Cheney, and disagree with your harsh words.
What was the basis of that assessment? How many "functioning democracies" did you see over there in any of those Islamic countries before 2007?
That's your prerogative. I'll never respect that guy. And I suspect most Americans don't, either. I would hope that the days of draft-dodgers sending U.S. soldiers to fight wars in Third World sh!t-holes are over.