The next Guy That Cries War, Kick Him In The Butt.

       Wow! Who could have foreseen this situation in Iraq? America sent it's finest men and women into that country to throw out a despicable tyrant and to create a democracy that would be a beacon for the entire Mideast to replicate, and to eliminate all those weapons of mass destruction. and, by the way, to make a tidy fortune in the process. It was a war, but it was a war that would be measured in days. The citizens would welcome us with open arms. It could be done without  substantial loss of life or financial costs to America. Go back and check the rhetoric for yourself.
       So how did that turn out? Well, we did throw out Sadam Hussein, we did make a tidy fortune for a very few corporations, but that's about all that was predicted that worked as planned. As it turns out, the people didn't welcome us quite as expected, there were no weapons of mass destruction and that highly touted democracy? Well, after we got the man we wanted in Al-Maliki, he wanted us out as soon as possible. At least after a decade. Pres. Bush rightly told him that if he would not assure us he wouldn't allow our troops to be arrested we were going to pull out by 2012. Maliki thumbed his nose at us and so Obama pulled our troops out as required in 2013.
       Now suddenly, or not so suddenly, his little kingdom democracy is being overrun by extremists and now he wants us to come back and save his bacon. But now, even if Halliburton wants more super profits, we're not going back in, nor should we. Why not? Because we don't know how to build democracies. We don't even know how to build decent dictatorships. Many Iraqi citizens would rather have these ISIS terrorist extremists to the current government.
       No wonder Bush sits so quietly while Obama gets all the flak for the unraveling of a country that would otherwise have continued to keep things in the Mideast from boiling over. A dictator Sadam was, but at least he kept a lid on things. Just think. We could have saved thousands of American lives and trillions of dollars and we'd all have been the wiser for it.