In brief: whatever you may think about the wisdom of George Bush's invasion of Iraq, the situation at the end of 2008 had stabilized; however, when Obama withdrew all American troops from Iraq, Prime Minister Maliki was freed from all restraints and stopped promoting a unity government incorporating all elements of Iraqi society, Shiite, Sunni, and Kurds. Maliki's increasingly sectarian, pro-Shiite, pro-Iranian government alienated the Sunni minority; all the while, as Maliki was transforming Iraq into a one-man, one-Dawa-party state, similar in its repressiveness to Saddam's Iraq, the Obama/Biden administration continued to support him; the outcome was not only predictable, but Khedery predicted it; Sunni leaders, increasingly excluded from the pro-Iranian Maliki government, resorted to insurgency.
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