Whatever the Iraq war was supposed to accomplish, this is what it accomplished in reality:
It empowered Iran, by ousting their principal foe - Saddam - and replacing him with a government run by Iran-allied Shiites.
And no, it wasn’t Obama who put the Shiite gov’t into power, it was the Bush administration.
bush did the world a great favor by creating fruit basket turn over in the fertile crescent.
It is all going as planned. Iraq and syria are split asunder into natural divisions. The Kurds are now autonomous in their region. The Iraqi threat is gone. Iran is being isolated. Hezbollah and Hamas are weakened
Bush was prescient and could see further into the future than those who see only a daily news cycle