Bolton was, in large part, responsible for the second war in Iraq and the removal of Saddam. That entire event is considered one of the more corrupt events we have ever been involved with. As an example an army sargeant was assigned a task of taking a pickup load of money someplace and turning it over to somebody else. Nobody ever found out who that was or who ordered it. The money was some that was returned to Iraq due to court order (it was their money from American banks in cash). This means that somebody stole a pile of cash and, with the help of the United States Military was able to get hands on it and then go up in smoke. One should also know that by the time we were done with that second war with Iran OVER 200,000 Iraqis were killed. Oh, and we made promises to the Iraqi army, which we did not keep, which means that those 200,000 were killed without a military opposition, ie. we just slaughtered them. The army we broke promises to later became the military arm of ISIS.

Oh, the second Iraq war also saw wholesale torture, by Americans. Lower echelons were forced to make Muslims do bad things and then take pictures (cameras supplied by Army). Then, these low echelons were sent to prison for doing what they were ordered whilst those that did the ordering were never even tried. Our government eventually moved all torture to our Guantanamo Bay detention camp and out of the public eye.

This is a very long and very sad history. To get the facts you really have to dig in the internet. Little things, like the Congressional hearings on postwar corruption, seem to have just gone up in smoke. Bolton had much to do with much of this stuff.

Oh, this happened during the last Bush administration but BOTH parties were involved and both get to claim part of the blame. This being a fact I think that they both, in the end, agreed that the best thing they could do was to make it all go away (with the connivance of media) so, these days, nobody talks much about it.