Hashim al-Bayati, a 62-year-old civil engineer who frequents the café most weeks, is relieved it looks unlikely to be another Bush, with Jeb Bush finishing fourth in New Hampshire.

“We are fed up with the Bush family, come on. No more Bushes please,” he said. He recalled George H.W. Bush’s “betrayal” when he urged Iraqis to rise up against Saddam Hussein after the Gulf War in 1991 but then did not support them. The death toll reached the tens of thousands.

“Unfortunately they cheated us,” Bayati said, adding George W. Bush was even more damaging in his handling of the fallout from the 2003 invasion. He says he has little faith that any president will improve things for Iraq.

“They have the problem as Iraq, the same faces coming again and again, the same families, Bushes and Clintons,” he said. “They exported a copy of this system to us.”