Poll: Majority of Americans blame Bush for Iraq violence

A majority of Americans blame the recent surge of violence in Iraq on former US President George W. Bush.

According to a Quinnipiac University poll, more than 51 percent of the registered voters blamed the Bush-era foreign policies for the current turmoil in Iraq. Sixty-one percent of those polled said the 2003 war in Iraq was the wrong thing to do. A majority of voters also disapprove of the way President Barack Obama is handling the bloodshed perpetrated by ISIL Takfiri terrorists in Iraq. Fifty-eight percent of the voters said Obama's decision to withdraw American forces from Iraq in 2011 was the right decision. However, they warned against any fresh troop deployment, saying it's not in the best US interest to get involved in Iraq again.