Yes with the full support of the Democratic controlled house and senate .
Old Georgie boy didn't go it alone .
Funny how every one likes to forget that tidbit .
Of course, if Bush hadn't lied he would never have gotten that support - funny how so many forget this:
The Downing Street Memo :: What is it?
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And now the Republicans are admitting that their war was a "mistake":
Iraq war judged a mistake by today's White House hopefuls | The Salt Lake Tribune
A dozen years later, American politics has reached a rough consensus about the Iraq War: It was a mistake.
It's a revealing moment when the major contenders for president in both parties find it best to say that 4,491 Americans and countless Iraqis lost their lives in a war that shouldn't have been waged.
Polls show most of the public have judged the war a
failure by now. Over time, more and more GOP politicians have allowed that the absence of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq undermined Republican President George W. Bush's rationale for the 2003 invasion.
It hasn't been an easy evolution for those such as Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton, who voted for the war in 2002 while serving in Congress. That vote, and her refusal to fully disavow it, cost her during her 2008 primary loss to Barack Obama, who wasn't in the Senate in 2002 but had opposed the war.
In her memoir last year, Clinton wrote that she had voted based on the information available at the time, but "I got it wrong. Plain and simple."
Jeb Bush, a likely candidate for the Republican nomination in 2016, was pressured last week into rejecting, in hindsight, his brother's war.
Or as Rick Santorum, another potential Republican candidate, put it: "Everybody accepts that now."
Santorum didn't always see the war that way. He voted for the invasion as a senator and continued to support if for years. Last week, he mocked Jeb Bush's reluctance to give what now seems the obvious answer when he was initially asked to reconsider the war in light of what's known today. "I don't know how that was a hard question," Santorum said.
It's an easier question for presidential hopefuls who aren't bound by family ties or their own congressional vote for the war, who have the luxury of judging it in hindsight, knowing full well the terrible price Americans paid and the continuing bloodshed in Iraq.
Florida Sen. Marco Rubio and Texas Sen. Ted Cruz weren't in Congress in 2002 and so didn't have to make a real-time decision with imperfect knowledge. Neither was New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie or Ohio Gov. John Kasich, who served an earlier stint in Congress.
All these Republicans said last week that, in hindsight, they would not have invaded Iraq with what's now known about the faulty intelligence that wrongly indicated Saddam Hussein had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction.
Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, in an interview Sunday on CBS' "Face the Nation," summed up that sentiment: "Knowing what we know now, I think it's safe for many of us, myself included, to say, we probably wouldn't have taken" that approach.
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And, of course, Obama had nothing to do with ISIS's success since he is president of the USA, not of Iraq whose president is Fuad Musam. Blaming Obama for Musam's failure is like blaming Musam for what went on in Ferguson.
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