Your memory is a bit faulty on Iraq and much of the past eight years. Bush was clearly not perfect, but he was quite competent. I am displeased with many things he did, but your description is with worthy of the Daily Kos.
RE: Iraq, it was not a far right position. It was a continuous policy dating back to 1998 under Clinton. Support was widespread on both sides until the Dems got their butts kicked in 2002 mid-terms and made the war political.
I hate seeing otherwise smart people re-writing history alongside the the left-wing.