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hugo7
I know about the ICC problem.
The sectarian violence didn't help achieve their aims...they achieved those anyway. But the violence suited them because Iraq contained a lot of people who they would categorize as 'bad actors', and they were more than comfortable with them being killed by other Iraqis. To their mind, it was preferable to trying to police Iraq and dig out the the bad guys. Some American lives would have been lost and it would have become an intractable problem. So they disbanded the army and looked the other way.
Do you follow the Bush shoe-thrower on twitter? https://twitter.com/muntazer_zaidi His tweets give me a useful reminder of what happened. I don't want to forget.