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Trillions of dollars, thousands of lives... and we're not done yet.
What have we really accomplished for America. Feeling warm and fuzzy that we "helped an oppressed people"? Acquired cheaper oil sources?
Some people say we've rooted out terrorism, while others say we just gave more people more reasons to want to blow us up.
Balance the costs with the benefits, and vote! Don't forget to take the possible future courses of the war into account.
NOTE: Don't talk about "well we shouldn't have gone at all" or any hypotheticals like that. Talk about actual events/history. Predicting the future of the war is acceptable, of course, because it's necessary.
I would say it is too early to make a definitive statement on whether it was worth it or not. At this stage it doesn't look like it, but (after several years of REALLY BOTCHED policy) stablity is finally starting to improve, so we really won't know for sure for another 5-10 years or so.
If a stable, prosperous and democratic Iraq comes out of all this, then yeah, MAYBE it will have been worth it.
If, on the other hand all that ends up happening in Iraq is another petty dictator - or worse yet a Radical Islamic regime - then no, it most definitely will not have been worth it.
It was the wrong decision on day one that was made from lies and false information ~ nothing has changed – we are still there because of lies and false information. George got sucked into a financial war instead of a conventional one, and he was so worried about chemical or biological weapons. Guess he never thought that our nation would be bankrupted by a few men wearing rags on their heads, but then George hasn’t be correct about so many things in his life either. What a scam they pulled on the public!
Absolutely 100% wrong, wrong then, wrong now, wrong a year from now, it will never be worth it, our children's children will be paying for this war, thousands of American soldiers have lost their lives for a war that never needed to be waged, we have lost our respect & credibility worldwide, and thousands of the innocent Iraqis have lost their lives because of the invasion. Never, ever should have happened
The war is good for those who are making money off of it. Those who have stock in the corporations that are contracted with the government seem to be happy that they’re getting a few extra bucks on their investment.
The war has taken our national economy down so badly that “everyone” will be affected by it. And NOT ONE life was worth this action by this administration! Shame on all of them for their actions that moved and kept our servicemen and women over there.
The Iraqi war is wrong on every level, from the needless loss of lives, to the maimed bodies and minds and to the horrific cost.
Chimpy came to office with a chip on his shoulder, the Bush family black sheep who wanted to show his old man he could cut the mustard. He wanted to one-up his old man by finishing a few things that, in chimpy's opinion, his dad did not finish while in office:
(1) Huge tax cut for the wealthy patrons on the far right wing of the GOP; (2) Bump off Saddam to show his dad that he could finish the job and to avenge the alledged plan the Iraqi Intel Service had to kill GHW and Barbara Bush during their thank you visit to Kuwait in 1993;
(3) Pack the SCOTUS with enough rightwing jurists to please the far right and maybe overturn Roe v Wade.
(4) Make sure the oil lobby got it's share of the loot, in the USA and as we now see, in Iraq too.
With that background, the failed presidency of G W Bush unfolded as one unbelievably mental, moral and ethical sick mess.
For the whole sorry truth, read "The Bush Tragedy" by Jacob Weisberg of Slate Magazine.
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