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The cost according to the Congressional Research Service was $806 billion. That was a tally of actual dollars spent. Some of these studies have included in 'cost' such things as impact of the war on oil prices and resulting cost to the US consumer.
As you say, $806 billion is itself a significant amount, so why the need to make stuff up?
No, GW Bush did not lie. He was given intel from the CIA and other agencies. He went on that intel, which any President would do.
Was the intel bad? Don't know for sure, but what was bad was the premise that the US needs to be the muscle and teeth in any UN resolution (which Saddam was violating, or at least stonewalling inspections).
Iraq should have kept their petty dictator. He was contained. However since we did invaded, we needed to have finished the job. Obama pulling the troops out, allowed the situation on the ground to spiral. Is 10 years a long time for the US to have troops stationed in a country? Try Germany, Japan, South Korea..... 65 years and counting....
he got same intelligence briefing as the democratic leadership got who push members to support the war by yes vote. In most liberal experts and even Un inspectors thought the same as most predicted heavy casualities to like 20K; most from there use. One of one our main problems was since the Church commission we had little human intelligence capability. I fact many would say since he left things in middle east have gotten worse. basically no one pays much attention to Obama since his redline and evne our allies in region are acting on their own; not just Israel.
The intel of the time was definitely poor. The CIA had little to no sources inside of Iraq. They were dependent on satellite imagery.
Early in the invasion, the CIA thought that they had located Saddam at a place called Dora Farms outside of Baghdad. The CIA had determined that Saddam had an underground bunker there. An F-117 bomber attack was quickly planned and launched. The F-117 attack struck dead center. They figured sure that they had taken out Saddam right there. One senior officer greeted the pilots upon return telling them, "Bitchin', dudes, bitchin."
When the ground forces later reached Dora Farms they found no bunker, only an empty field that had been bombed.
The intel of the time was definitely poor. The CIA had little to no sources inside of Iraq. They were dependent on satellite imagery.
Early in the invasion, the CIA thought that they had located Saddam at a place called Dora Farms outside of Baghdad. The CIA had determined that Saddam had an underground bunker there. An F-117 bomber attack was quickly planned and launched. The F-117 attack struck dead center. They figured sure that they had taken out Saddam right there. One senior officer greeted the pilots upon return telling them, "Bitchin', dudes, bitchin."
When the ground forces later reached Dora Farms they found no bunker, only an empty field that had been bombed.
Your first two sentences is what Bush lied about, if we didn't have good intel, then we shouldn't have been invading countries for no reason. The Bush administration made up a reason to attack Iraq.
The WMDs are no where to be found, still to this day. The debacle known as the Iraq and Afghan War has led to nothing more than ISIS.....the Khemer Rouge of the 2010s.
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