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Was the War in Iraq worth it?

Was the War in Iraq worth it?

  • Yes

    Votes: 21 19.6%
  • No

    Votes: 86 80.4%

  • Total voters
    107
Worth what?

What did WE get out of the deal?

Let me know and then I will vote in your poll.
 
Was it worth the sacrifice of lives, physical maiming, and money?
 
hell NO!

but why no parades for our veterans of that war?!

tuesday, march 20, the ninth anniversary of the invasion, should be a date set aside for our nation to hold parades honoring our iraq vets

they deserve much more. they also deserve nothing less
 
I agree. I was also surprised how quiet it was for a news story, in many cases not even the lead story. WTF?
 
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.
 
Too soon to tell for me.

Earlier in the week BO had nice things to say about the outcome. He said this at Fort Bragg so he may have been lying to the soldier to make them feel better. He probably doesn't believe a word he said.

It’s harder to end a war than begin one. Indeed, everything that American troops have done in Iraq -– all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering -– all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people. We’re building a new partnership between our nations. And we are ending a war not with a final battle, but with a final march toward home.



This is an extraordinary achievement, nearly nine years in the making
 
No. Invading Iraq a second time was foolhardy, and was not worth the cost of lives and money.
 
Not even close. It was a war based off of lies that has only strengthened fanatical resolve against the USA and alienated much of the worlds love for us after 911. The war was stupid and the Bush admin should be tarred and feathered like the douche bag liars that they are.
 
The war was stupid and the Bush admin should be tarred and feathered like the douche bag liars that they are.

More like... they are rolling in the money that their buddies got from the oil and defense contracts.
 
George Bush Sr. appears to have been vindicated. He took some heat for not "finishing the job" after the first Gulf War. People said he should have had our troops continue into Iraq to take out Saddam Hussein. However, he explained that being an occupying power of an Islamic country would create bad blood and a quagmire for us. He appears to have been right. It's too bad his son didn't learn from him.
 
Worth what?

What did WE get out of the deal?

Let me know and then I will vote in your poll.

Got rid of Saddam. We don't have to worry about him invading his neighbors every few years.
 
4500 americans dead, 100,000 civilians dead, one trillion spent. What's the opportunity cost?
 
Got rid of Saddam. We don't have to worry about him invading his neighbors every few years.

He wasnt going to invade anyone after the first gulf war. We destroyed his weapons program. We had some terrible sanctions on his country and we bombed his country before the second war in Iraq. He wasnt going to invade anyone.

And to answer the question. **** no it wasnt worth it.
 
US, British and French OIL corporations now have most of the Iraq's oil in their centralized distribution network. That's the same as the Centralized Collection of Monies network. Oilfield service and development contractors from the USA can now operate legally in Iraq and generate huge profits. Armaments and ammunition and weapons manufacturers have profitted handsomely and will continue to profit by selling to the Iraqis. These were and are the groups that inspired the war and generated the perceptions that justified (falsely) the invasion and killing of at least 100,000 people. It was and is worth it to them. It's all about Corporate profit and loss. The bottom line. The black and white bookeeping that is the Corporate lifeblood and continuity. A corporation is a fictitious entity that does not live and breathe, but profits from war in this case. Does Corporatism seem a bit more real in hindsight?
 
I don't ascribe evil intent to the Bush administration for their decision to go to war, as we had reason to believe that Hussein was holding material left over from the first Gulf War that, in the hands of terrorists, could have wreaked havoc across the world.

However, it is obvious that our intelligence gathering was flawed and the decision making process based on it too strongly influenced by politics and patriotism. Cooler heads should have prevailed, but they didn't.
 
Got rid of Saddam. We don't have to worry about him invading his neighbors every few years.
I wasn't worrying about that to begin with. And, frankly, I could have cared less if he gave Iran hell.

I agree our soldiers should have a parade. They are heroes and they deserve the best we can offer them. But, that being said, I don't think all that was worth it just to have a parade.

Lotsa parents lost their kids over there. Lotsa kids lost their daddy's. Let's give them a parade too.
 
He wasnt going to invade anyone after the first gulf war. We destroyed his weapons program. We had some terrible sanctions on his country and we bombed his country before the second war in Iraq. He wasnt going to invade anyone.

And to answer the question. **** no it wasnt worth it.

Right, that's why he massed Republican Gaurd units on the Kuwaiti border in 1994. Not to mention his persicussion of the Kerds and the Shia.
 
I wasn't worrying about that to begin with. And, frankly, I could have cared less if he gave Iran hell.

I agree our soldiers should have a parade. They are heroes and they deserve the best we can offer them. But, that being said, I don't think all that was worth it just to have a parade.

Lotsa parents lost their kids over there. Lotsa kids lost their daddy's. Let's give them a parade too.

Why are you denegrating their service? What's next? Pissing on their graves?
 
Right, that's why he massed Republican Gaurd units on the Kuwaiti border in 1994. Not to mention his persicussion of the Kerds and the Shia.

So we are supposed to invade and occupy every nation that threatens to or attacks another nation?

OK then... let's invade Tibet and kick out the Chinese.
 
Why are you denegrating their service? What's next? Pissing on their graves?

Are you reading through a Mary Jane smoke filled haze or something?
 
Got rid of Saddam. We don't have to worry about him invading his neighbors every few years.

Every few years? It happened once.

Eventually, getting rid of him would have been necessary. That being said, a better time could have (and should have) been chosen. Replacing Saddam with a weak government only made Iran stronger with nobody powerful to keep them in check. Now it's just a bigger mess than it was.
 
Every few years? It happened once.

Eventually, getting rid of him would have been necessary. That being said, a better time could have (and should have) been chosen. Replacing Saddam with a weak government only made Iran stronger with nobody powerful to keep them in check. Now it's just a bigger mess than it was.

Actually, it happened three times, but don't worry about the facts.
 
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