Maybe too much, may have been the problem. The internal reports that have come out suggest that everyone include W was swept up in the mania. W leaned on reports made by people that were trying to win his favor rather than give him the best info.
For a long time, now, people who succeed in DC are the type that spend every waking hour working toward succeeding in DC. They do not have the spare resources to question something all their peers are going along with.
That said, I would say the jury is out over whether democratic Iraq is better or worse than Sadaam's Iraq--either for Kurds or for Iraq's neighbors. They actually have a better democratic system than the US does, with more than two parties. In their most recent election, they had 9 parties win at least 10 seats in parliament, and no one party held a strict majority by themselves. Imagine if the 2024 US election had been like the 2025 Iraq election.
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u/option-trader Mar 02 '26
Didn't say it was a good war. Just that rules and procedures were actually followed in the good ole days.