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Cartoonist Tom Toles perfectly captures the latest Iraq fiasco. This is a joint Bush-Obama debacle – and proof that neither party can be trusted to intelligently intervene in the Middle East.<\/p>\n

But the pro-Iraq war crowd is still yelping for the U.S. to “fix” Syria….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Cartoonist Tom Toles perfectly captures the latest Iraq fiasco. This is a joint Bush-Obama debacle – and proof that neither party can be trusted to intelligently intervene in the Middle East. But the pro-Iraq war crowd is still yelping for the U.S. to “fix” Syria….<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[464,415,56,82,202,137,36,453,377,38,262,75],"class_list":["post-8372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-atrocities","tag-boondoggle","tag-cartoon","tag-foreign-aid","tag-fraud","tag-george-w-bush","tag-iraq","tag-isis","tag-job-training","tag-obama","tag-syria","tag-war"],"yoast_head":"\nLatest Iraq Success Story - James Bovard<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Cartoonist Tom Toles perfectly captures the latest Iraq fiasco. 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