And here you go with that nonsense again. If you expected terrorism to be completely and totally wiped out - no terrorists left, not even in outer space or the Andromeda galaxy - then you were unrealistic and that's not George Bush's fault. Especially considering the subsequent administration and its policies.
No. Non sense would be trying to say I, of all people, ever said we should NOT have gone when I have said 1,000,002 times that the mistake was not in going but, in losing.
Bush made HUGE enormous mistakes that put at risk everyone in Iraq who was interested in Westernizing and liberalizing Iraq. We all, most of us, assumed that with Cheney and Powell and Rummy, we were going to go in kill everyone who needed it, break everything that needed breaking and, as we did with Germany and Japan, two very different cultures, IMPOSE our Western and liberal will on Iraq and get the same result. We were told Iraq was the place that had enough of a middle class, enough education for this to work and it may well have...had we been sincere with what we claimed we were doing.
And I don't ascribe to the 'terrorism' BS to me 'nither. I have written going on 2,000,000 times that we face FUNDAMENTALISTS. Not radicals. Not extremists. Not terrorists. We are at war with people who like their faith and their world simple and fundamental, just like their good book says. Maybe that is a huge part of why Dubbya ####ed it all up; he thought we were facing terrorists/radical/extremists? Certainly, that is what he thought but, he was wrong and when you don't even know what you're fighting, things can go awry.
So, again, our mistake was not in going. It was in losing. And part of the reason we lost, maybe the whole reason, is that we refused to accept that we were facing fundamentalists. Not terrorists. Not radicals. Not extremists. Fundamentalists. Like that mom who thought the American's were invading her home and there to destroy her way of life.