Well I don't agree with the war at all being started on the first place but I feel like Obama also made a big mistake by not stabilizing Iraq's government too that led to the creation of ISIS. I mean sure, the Bush Era started the whole mess or the 911 initiated it but then I feel like USA had the responsibility of straightening the kinks and filling the holes no matter what government started it. It's still their mess. It was their war and they have the nerve to actually avoid the consequences or preventing it at all.

I'm not going to side on both but I'm gonna take the controversial side that both parties(Busb and Obama) made compromising decisions that cause ripples to the whole world as we know it.

Oops. Looks like this thread hit a lot of nerves in here.

We made the mistake by going there in the first place I'm not just talking about 03 I'm talking about ever. They only made the region even worse then it's ever been.

Honey. This mess all started in the 1920s when the UK meddled with Baghdad, Basra, and Mosul east after WW 1.

The USA was left with this mess. Don't come for us!

But why would you leave the country without stabilizing it yet? It's still your government's responsibility. That's like Japan's and Germany's governments not giving a **** with the countries they destroyed because the past government has already transitioned into a new one. I mean yall can't escape responsibility like that because Obama became the president. That doesn't work that way.

Saddam needed to be overthrown because of his terrible treatment of the Kurds but once they did they opened the lid to a whole mess with different groups trying to all gain power and removing one led to another coming up.

They needed to leave since it had gone on for too long and caused too many casualties, also true democracy might not be possible there, the dictators might've been awful but at least they kept the region stable. It's all so complicated.

So basically, USA's government left Iraq because of cost without stabilizing the region. I mean, that's **** up. That's like leaving your pet dog in the wild and have it fend predators by itself.