First you write:
I stand with George W. Bush on this one.
"I don't think our troops ought to be used for what's called nation building." -- George W. Bush, Republican Party candidate for President of the United States (10/11/2000)
Than you continue with:
Much as I hate to defend Barack Obama, the responsibility for this debacle in Iraq should be placed right where it belongs: with the delusional hacks from the prior administration who actually thought it was a good idea to invade Iraq in the first place.
The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was not a continuation of Desert Storm. In fact, former Defense Secretary Dick Cheney explicitly said in 1994 -- in an interview in which he was asked why the U.S. didn't "finish the job" in Desert Storm -- that invading and occupying Iraq would be a bad idea. It's too bad Vice President Dick Cheney didn't heed his own advice nearly a decade later.
"Once you got to Iraq and took it over, took down Saddam Hussein's government, then what are you going to put in its place? That's a very volatile part of the world, and if you take down the central government of Iraq, you could very easily end up seeing pieces of Iraq fly off: part of it, the Syrians would like to have to the west, part of it -- eastern Iraq -- the Iranians would like to claim, they fought over it for eight years. In the north you've got the Kurds, and if the Kurds spin loose and join with the Kurds in Turkey, then you threaten the territorial integrity of Turkey." -- Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Richard Cheney (4/15/94)
Why would you blame the Obama administration for the disaster in Iraq in 2014 when the situation was set in motion by his predecessor in 2003 and is following the exact script Dick Cheney described in 1994?
So you think that the approval by Hillary Clinton is a sign of a wise policy?