I don’t think GWB could have sold America or much of the rest of the world about starting a war with Iran while still in Iraq and Afghanistan. Russia and China in particular. And to the ME countries who might start to believe we weren’t just there to stabilize Iraq, but actually take over the middle east.
Iran was left to Obama to deal with. And he’s failed. Doesn’t help he’s a freaking muslim sympathizer at best, or a muslim practicing al-taqiyaa himself at worst.
My major beef with Bush on that matter didn’t start with him not attacking Iran. It began with him not warning Iran to stop arming the insurgents. It began with the Iran supplied IEDs killing large numbers of our men.
We knew where those things were coming from, who was supplying them, and who was training terrorists and sending them into Iraq.
Iran got a complete pass on every bit of their treachery related to Iraq and Afghanistan.
If we had given them an ultimatum, we could have escalated the level of our actions against them. We didn’t so much as whisper about it. I am exaggerating, because our side did touch on it, but they took no measures to stop it.
It was so bad IMO, that I actually felt Bush had betrayed our men by not addressing it and putting an end to it.