What about that last sentence makes you think that I think it was all flowers and sunshine?
At the end of the day they have a better government and if they hadn’t partnered with the American soldiers then we’d have fought AQ there for twenty years just like the Taliban in Afghanistan. I don’t have any concept that all Iraqis love the US. But the Iranian backed militias ain’t the majority opinion either. So yeah. There was a good thing done in there.