If John Waver had done an Iraq War

I would never have done it in 2003. For what I would have actually done in response to 9-11 if I had been in George Bush's shoes, see the following article:

http://jwaverterror.blogspot.com.au/2017/03/if-john-waver-had-been-george-w-bush.html

But let's just say that George W. Bush invaded Iraq, took control of Baghdad, had a heart-attack and John Waver happened to be the Vice President. What would have I done to limit the Iraqi debacle?

Of course I would've found Saddam Hussein and I probably would have exiled him rather than execute him.

I would not have handed Iraq over to the Shi'ite Arab population, as Bush did. Nor would have I kept another Sunni Arab Ba'athist dictator in power.

I would have formed a Kurdish government to control Iraq.

Iraq is a completely unstable nation. That is why someone like Saddam Hussein was needed to keep the lid on it. The only force capable of keeping Iraq together - other than the Arab Ba'ath party - is the Kurds. They may not be the most populous group on the ground, but they are certainly the most driven group on the ground.

I would have let the Iraqi Army still serve, under the Kurds - together with their Peshmerga. The advantage of having Kurds control Iraq is that the Kurdish problem in Iran, Syria and Turkey would almost be solved overnight - they would emigrate to Iraq and not stay in the other countries. It would mean borders would not need to be changed for the Kurds to control a country.

Kurdish populations would have moved into Baghdad and would have moved the Sunni Arabs out of historically Kurdish regions, like Kirkuk - called the Kurdish Jerusalem - and into other Iraqi regions. The Kurds would have kept tight control on the Sunni and Shi'ite Arab populations and would have restricted immigration to just Kurds from Syria, Iran and Turkey to balance out the population in favour of the Kurds.

It would have sent a shockwave of enormous proportions throughout the Middle-East. Under the Kurds Iraq would have established public ties with Israel. Also, Saudi Arabia and Iran would have funded terrorism in Iraq like crazy - but instead of one terror group controlling the country - Iran-backed militias - and the other treated the enemy - Al-Qaeda in Iraq/ISIS - both would be seen as the enemy, making Iran-backed militias and ISIS-minded jihadists less popular than they are today.

It would have caused outrage from the other Arab nations, as well as Turkey and Iran. But it also would have solved the Kurdish issue, given Israel an ally, protected the Yazidi and Christian minorities, and prevented terrorism from spreading as far and wide as it did in Bush's Iraq War and in Obama's Syria War.

It would not have been perfect, nor would it have been as stable as under Saddam Hussein. But it would have been one of the best scenarios in what was the epic debacle of the Iraq War.