Not to beat a dead horse but it seems that alot of people are getting their nose out of joint that former neocons are coming out of the woodwork with the gall to criticize the Obama administration in what's happened since.
Ezra Klein:
http://www.vox.com/2014/6/17/5817910...ampaign=buffer
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A decade later Iraq is becoming the things it was meant to destroy. It could become a #####e dominated state dependent on Iran for its security. It could become a weak or broken state that serves partly as a haven for the Sunni terror organization ISIS. It could end up as both.
The one thing it will not be is the liberal, democratic counterweight to radical Islam that the Bush administration sought. There is no one in the Middle East who looks to the Iraqi state and sees a better life for them and their children.
The totality of the Bush administration's failure in Iraq is stunning. It is not simply that they failed to build the liberal democracy they wanted. It's that they ended up strengthening theocracies they feared.
And it's not simply that they failed to find the weapons of mass destruction that they worried could one day be passed onto terrorists. It's that a terrorist organization now controls a territory about the size of Belgium, raising the possibility that America's invasion and occupation inadvertently trained the fighters and created the vacuum that will lead to al Qaeda's successor organization.
And all this cost us trillions of dollars and thousands of American lives.
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