Our resounding success in Iraq is a myth. The country is being torn apart by sectarian violence

[cali]

It's a bloody mess. Who could have predicted this? Anyone with a few functioning brain cells, that's who.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-22692664

http://www.theworld.org/2013/05/amidst-political-crisis-in-iraq-sectarian-violence-intensifies/

http://www.cfr.org/about/newsletters/archive/newsletter/n1265

http://www.netnebraska.org/node/855294

[warrant46]

1. Anyone with a few functioning brain cells?

It sure the F#$@ wasn't D-Bag Bush or his Brain Cheney who started the whole fiasco.

[Bluenorthwest]

2. I've never heard it called anything like a resounding success.

Of course it is a mess. I missed the whole myth of resounding greatness of Bush Invasions. Was there are parade?

[arely staircase]

3. exactly who believes this myth?

I don't even know any republicans who will defend it, much less take ownership for supporting it at the time, which they totally fucking did.

[quinnox]

4. Yup. Maybe, just maybe, it takes a strong-man alpha-type male like a Saddam to keep things together

in certain cultures and regions.

[dkf]

5. Howard Dean was a truth teller here.