“Trillions of dollars in Americans’ taxes and debts later, Iraq is in a civil war. What do American taxpayers have to show for Bush’s ‘I’m Macho!’ grandstanding? War debts and war dead. Plus this photo. Stories about Iraq were buried even before Obama pulled out the visible troops. Iraq went down the memory hole. Mercenaries have stayed behind. In addition, the U.S. government still operates military bases. The U.S. military has insisted that this will not change. Did the neocons ever say, ‘We were wrong?’ Of course not. Did they say we should pull out of Afghanistan? Of course not. Are we going to pull out of Afghanistan? Yes. Every military invader of Afghanistan always has.”
http://teapartyeconomist.com/2014/06/12/iraq-chaos-total-defeat-bushs-policies-course/