This may be the most accurate information to come out of Baghdad in years.

Iraqi lawmakers said on Saturday that Washington should take responsibility for the turmoil in Iraq and stop blaming Baghdad, Iran and Syria.

Frustrated by criticism from the United States over their slow progress towards political goals meant to foster national reconciliation, Iraqi leaders said Washington would be better served by examining its own progress in the unpopular war.

"The Americans always try to pretend the responsibility for cleaning up this mess isn't theirs and tend to shift blame onto Iraq, Iran and Syria for everything that goes wrong," said veteran Kurdish lawmaker Mahmoud Othman.

"But they should stop this nonsense and admit that most of the accountability rests on their shoulders," he told Reuters.

To depose a leader of a country, destroy the country's infrastructure, kill thousands of their citizens, allow a civil war to foment on your watch, and then demand that the country cobble together a political structure completely foreign to them to solve these problems is indefensible.

And when Hillary Clinton parrots these Republican talking points she demonstrates herself to be a follower, not a leader.