Larry Cable wrote:

Even if there is a new President, he can't afford to allow this to
become a victory for the Islamist. Strategically, the Invasion of Iraq
has always been the right move, although the Bush administration has been
very poor [articulating] why that is true.

Why was invading Iraq the right strategic move? I'm trying to think...
(and deleted a bunch of sentences putting words in your mouth).

Tactically, they underestimated the force needed to occupy the country
and had poor intelligence on some of the so called allies, especially
among the Shiite in the South.

Letting go the Iraqi military without pay was a bad decision by Bremer.
I'm not sure of all his bad decisions, but he and others did a good job
(a bad job, really) of alienating the inhabitants. This I knew was true
before the prison scandal broke.