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Iraq war costs U.S. more than $2 trillion: study

wiseone said:
hey i agree the government wastes a lot of money, but this reply is a complete red herring. The fact that the government has other debts doesn't justify the creation of this debt.
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66gardeners said:
Make all the excuses you want. Nothing changes the fact that we are still paying for a war/wars that were fiascos from the get go.
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:roll: there have been sixteen zillion arguments about the merits of the Iraq War. This is a debate about the relative expenditures associated with that effort.
 
dirtpoorchris said:
I bet not even half of that actually went to effort. Probably scooped up by politicians and their cohorts. To their friends in the private war market at incredibly inflated costs most likely.
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They know for a fact that $60 billion of cold, hard cash is unaccounted for.
 
ecofarm said:
That speculation doesn't have anything to do with my question.

Obama has more deaths in Afghan than Bush... whose war is it?
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It is ALL of our war. Ask any member in the service whose war it is. Sometimes republicans like to forget it is their war as well. Undoubtedly, they own a far larger proportion of the responsibility for the costs.
 
ARealConservative said:
be sure to thank the democrats in the senate too. They had control of that branch and could of easily prevented authorizing force.

And please save the bad intelligence bull**** for the shills that buy it. Several conservatives that I respect had the same intelligence and voted no for authorization of force.
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Really. Who?
 
DaveFagan said:
No! You are. Lotsa different Shiites.
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Can you imagine anything more totally lame than threatening you with a rule infraction violation for the s word? LOL
 
ecofarm said:
Obama killed more than Bush. No one forced him.
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I've seen you say this a few times now. Are you saying that because more troops died in Afghanistan under President Obama, then President Bush, and because of that he could have ended it?

I feel like I'm not understanding you correctly. If I am, I'm not following your logic here. Are you interested in elaborating?
 
Muhammed said:
I never made a comparison.

What I did was prove that you were wrong. And showed you conclusive proof that GWB did not start the war in Iraq. It was ongoing long before he ever took office.

Do you have a problem with people educating the DP forum by speaking the truth?
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Who in their right minds responds to this? You have not proven anything and it sounds absurd.
 
66gardeners said:
Who in their right minds responds to this? You have not proven anything and it sounds absurd.
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OK, not picking sides on this, but you did respond. Are you in your right mind? ;)
 
WWGWD said:
I've seen you say this a few times now. Are you saying that because more troops died in Afghanistan under President Obama, then President Bush, and because of that he could have ended it?

I feel like I'm not understanding you correctly. If I am, I'm not following your logic here. Are you interested in elaborating?
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I'm saying that Obama owned Afghan when he escalated and oversaw more US deaths (and others?) during his admin. Pretending his actions are Bush's "fault" is bogus. He must own what he has done.

How many civilians has Obama killed? So many countries. How many soldiers? What happened to the counters.
 
WWGWD said:
OK, not picking sides on this, but you did respond. Are you in your right mind? ;)
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You are absolutely correct, and a got a very hearty laugh out of it. LOL
 
cpwill said:
:roll: there have been sixteen zillion arguments about the merits of the Iraq War. This is a debate about the relative expenditures associated with that effort.
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My comment was that we are still paying for a war/wars that were fiascos from the get go. Does that compute?
 
ecofarm said:
I'm saying that Obama owned Afghan when he escalated and oversaw more US deaths (and others?) during his admin. Pretending his actions are Bush's "fault" is bogus. He must own what he has done.

How many civilians has Obama killed? So many countries. How many soldiers? What happened to the counters.
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I totally and pretty strongly agree with you. Isn't the debate on this string about Iraq though? By your same logic, wouldn't that make Iraq totally President Bush's war? Maybe I missed it, and that's entirely plausible, but I never say anyone trying to place fault for Afghanistan on President Bush. That is a war that was inevitiable after 9/11. I would say, however, that President Bush should bear the brunt of the responsibility for the length of the war in Afghanistan. Simply because of the split focus after starting a war in Iraq. Would you say that is a fair assessment?
 
66gardeners said:
Who in their right minds responds to this? You have not proven anything and it sounds absurd.
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Could you elaborate? Are you trying to insinuate that the USA was not at war with the Republic of Iraq when GWB took office?

If so, you would be showing an extreme ignorance of history.
 
Muhammed said:
Could you elaborate? Are you trying to insinuate that the USA was not at war with the Republic of Iraq when GWB took office?

If so, you would be showing an extreme ignorance of history.
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Let's put it this way, I would never buy the books you read.
 
Muhammed said:
I never made a comparison.

What I did was prove that you were wrong. And showed you conclusive proof that GWB did not start the war in Iraq. It was ongoing long before he ever took office.

Do you have a problem with people educating the DP forum by speaking the truth?
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I have a problem with false statements.

The war was not "ongoing" before Bush invaded Iraq. It started in 2003 and ended in 2011. Saying otherwise is false.
Date: 20 March 2003 – 18 December 2011
(8 years, 8 months and 3 weeks)
Iraq War - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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If you want to say that the war which began in 1991 never ended, then you'd be wrong.
 
calamity said:
If you want to say that the war which began in 1991 never ended, then you'd be wrong.
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Got any evidence to back up that ridiculous assertion?

Here's a video from 1998.



Looks like war to me and every other person who is not ignorant of history.
 
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ARealConservative said:
nope. It was approved overwhelmingly, it was a bi-partisan war.
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Where do you guys get this stuff?
Iraq Resolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In the House:
Party Yes Nays PRES No Vote
Republican 215 6 0 2
Democratic 82 126 0 1
Independent 0 1 0 0
TOTALS 297 133 0 3

82 (40%) of 208 Democratic Representatives voted for the resolution.
6 (<3%) of 223 Republican Representatives voted against the resolution...
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40% to 97%. How is that Bipartisan?

The senate:
Party Ayes Nays No Vote
Republican 48 1 0
Democratic 29 21 0
Independent 0 1 0
TOTALS 77 23 0
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21 D's against it vs 1 Republican.


Hmm...I like how you GOP guys twist reality. You all should sell used cars.
 
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