We made Iraq unstable. After the first Gulf War, which we wisely didn't move on Baghdad, the no fly zone in the North and South had Saddam bottled up and the Kurds were in charge in the North once we established the no fly zones and Provide Comfort. I personally walked around Irbil and Zakho without even carrying a weapon because we were shadowed by the PKK and it was a stable area basically run by the Kurds. But hey, Cheney lied and scared the wingnuts and spineless Democrats into green lighting the stupid war. Not to mention we took out Irans main enemy in Saddam and gave them all the inroads into Iraq that they wanted.