It was for the corporate shills... but not really anyone else. Hundreds of thousands of Iraqs dead as "collateral", a civilization reduced to rubble yet again, American soldiers lost defending oil fields and attacking "insurgents" (a.k.a Iraqi civilians who are fed up), and hundreds of billions of dollars of tax payer money. It was a pretty costly war for one that shouldn't have happened in the first place, but did because of upper level lies and deceit.
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Yeah, all the insurgents I killed were Iraqi. Care to see all the passports from the '03 invasion I collected from Yemen, Syria, Chechnya, Iran, etc that had the reason for their visit listed ON THE PASSPORT as jihad? Or how about the Columbia University trained surgeon from Saudi we found. Or how about the Iranian made and planted EFP (Google that, nasty stuff) that blew my vehicle up and when I woke up my feet were on the pavement because the entire front end of my truck was gone. Yep, all those Iraqi's man. Wish they wouldn't have danced in the streets when we came in '03. Wish they wouldn't have fed me in their homes everynight in '07 when I was an advisor to the Iraqi Army and we didn't have anywhere to sleep.
Im really glad I fought for that discount in oil we got....oh wait....there wasn't any. Prices are pretty high. I remember the Rumalyah Oil Fields too. Yeah, there wasn't any bases down there. They just left those things undefended!! How dare those Generals not figure out the war was for oil. I guess we didn't think we should be doing that. I know, I fought for KBR. Dick Cheney's company. Oh wait, if it wasn't for them we wouldn't have had food, water, or a bathroom because they built infrastructure so Marines and soldiers could go fight. I can't believe they had the nerve to take those jobs so we could go fight the war! Tell you what else really pissed me off. Having to stand there for days on end and guard construction workers while we built that prison/well/road/hospital. I thought we were just there to destroy everything and there I was actually helping them.
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I'm tired of you liberal panty waists talking about us "poor servicemembers" that had to fight "for oil and greedy politicians". I volunteered to go kill terrorists because it pissed me off they ran a plane into one of our buildings. Period. I was already a Marine in 2001 when that happened and had a re-enlistment coming up. Guess when that re-enlistment happened? December 2002. Guess when I went to Iraq. February 2003. I knew, as did everyone around me, what I was getting into and I was all about it. My unit had over 70 out of 110 Marines that could have gotten out of the Marine Corps right before the invasion of Iraq. They all were hitting their 4 year mark around December of 2002. Guess what?
NOT ONE GUY got out. We all believed in what we were doing. I know you guys (libs) can't grasp this concept: If someone hits you in the mouth, you hit them back. Thats what we did and we continue to do. If they want to hate Americans, we want them to hate us, the servicemember so they can't inflict their hate on you, the panty waist liberal. After all, if we, the rugged individuals, sat back and let you, the panty waist liberals, decide when to fight we'd all be speaking with an English accent/German/Japanese/Arabic right now huh?