Well, I'm calling him a root cause more than I'm blaming him for everything. Like it or not, the US and the UK are there under false pretences. Bush has claimed that God told him to send his armies to Iraq. Why? File under "moves in mysterious ways", I suppose. But that, unfortunately, was when every reasonable attempt to justify the invasion was proven to be false. While it sounds like him evading responsibility (kind of sounds like "the devil made me do it" to me), it's actually proving that he's pretty much directly responsible for troops being sent out to a pointless war. Everything else has kind of followed since then. If the troops hadn't been there, there wouldn't have been the friendly fire that killed all those people, or the torture, or any of the rest of the hell that faces the combined armed forces of the US and UK. Yes, they volunteered to be in the army, those people, but they kind of counted on the CoC to make sure they only went when they had to. And I'm not taking away from the fact that it's down to the soldiers at the end of the day how they behave when they're in combat, but they didn't have to be there.

And there's no excuse for his joke of an initial Supreme Court nomination.