"it was not created until 2014"

Odd, I was getting lectures about its creation long before that - early 00's  - can't imagine how all those antiterrorism experts from across the world were so wrong. May be they should just have waited for trump's made up tweets to know the "trust"

"Iraq was entering a period of relative stability" Only if you think the eye of a hurricane is "relatively stable". Or are you saying it was stable because GWB had already announced, planned, and started the withdrawal of US troops in 2008 with a timeline that had them all out by 2011? Wouldn't that describe the US withdrawal as "That was an operation that was well underway before he showed up."? Surely not.