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No. When it comes to the actions of the protesters in Tunisia, I highly doubt that they took the events going on in Iraq more into account than the events that were going on in their own country. The Arab Spring was pretty much spontaneous. I believe there was a domino effect, but it started in Tunisia, not Iraq.
I believe that both people who say that Bush destabilized the region by going into Iraq, and people who say that Iraqi elections inspired the Arab Spring, are incorrect. Social unrest, being fed up with dictatorships, food prices going through the roof, high unemployment, the use of social media, all of these factors contributed way more to the bubble bursting than what was happening in Iraq.
Wouldn't want Bush to get an positive credit, that's for sure. There was all kinds of democracy going on before 9/11, all kinds everywhere. There is absolutely zero coincidence with the war in Iraq or Afghanistan, none whatsoever. Anyone that see a connection should be hospitalized. It was Obama that did it. All his hard work, apologizing for America that did it.