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Allawi’s Party always had about to the best relations with the Sunnis and Kurds, of the main Shi’ite groups - because they were technocrats, whereas the others tended to be either sectarian populists, or straight out thugs (including the several Iranian front groups/militias).

Instead of such a group, that could balance the competing ethnic and sectarian interests, the Obama Admin arranged for a harshly sectarian Party to take over as Chief Executive (Prime Minister). Then the Obama Admin emptied our prison at Camp Bucca of all the worst terrorists and gang leaders, and announced that we would be pulling out all our troops on January first - Iraq (with its huge oil wealth) would go to the strongest, and most vicious, among them. They had one year to organize and arm themselves.

The day after our last troop crossed the border into Kuwait, the Shi’ite Prime Minister (Nuri al Maliki) declared the Sunni President guilty of treason (punishable by death). The Sunni President had to flee the country, and the ensuing wholesale disenfranchisement of Sunnis led to the civil war (with Sunni ISIS) that devastated the country much worse than both US invasions and the Iran/Iraq War combined.

It would have been a dramatically different outcome, had Allawi been in charge.