Sunni fighters say [Shia] militias, not army, should liberate Fallujah and Mosul

Are you kidding me Iraq was never stable after 2003 until today.

I am extremely well aware of that. And it still isn't stable to this day.

Now we have many of the scum politicians that tried to represent baath ideas gone.

You mean the only people who ever built up Iraq? You mean the non-Islamist parties which contain those? You mean ideals that aren't Islamism and extremism that are held so sacred by Sunni and Shi'a Islamist groups, "Baath ideals" who aside from the KDP/PUK, are the only groups that don't espouse Islamism and sectarianism? Ideals such as unity and secularism and nationalism?

Last I checked, it was the Islamist blocs of Dawa, Ahrar Badr, ISCI, Muttahidon, etc., half of whom are Iranian pawns, that were in power since 2003, and the ones stealing money and destroying Iraq since 2003 and making it on a tier with Somalia in terms of corruption and incompetence. Iraq is apparently still one of the top 5 or 6 most corrupt countries in the world. Even with the infinite American and other foreign assistance since 2003, Iraq managed to go backwards.

It is no surprise that the biggest criticism of the US, including within the US, following the 2003 invasion was dissolving the Baath party, largely because its ideals and its many educated and nationalist members were the closest thing Iraq had resembling a modern state.

Iraq is finally free from the baathi and daeshi ideals that were so prevalent in Iraq.

Except the strongest man and de facto commander of the armed forces in Iraq was a Baathi general. You may know him as Defense Minister Khaled Al Obeidi. ISIS was so mad about it they kidnapped (and presumably murdered) 70 of his family members in Mosul after he was appointed.

They undermined every single aspect of Iraq so happily.

You mean the Islamist parties that have been in power since 2003? Baath is long gone. The ruling Islamist blocs are entirely to blame for all of Iraq's problems (not that diverse mishmash of people who have been playing backgammon on street corners and doing other work since 2003 after they lost their jobs). Even KDP and PUK have proven much more competent and better than them, even with all their corruption and problems.

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