Great point.
I forgot about that.
The war benefited the military contractors, many subsidiaries of Halliburton, + the terrorists + those we helped put into power to run the country.
Many probably don't recall the
$6.6 Billion in cash that went missing back in May 2004. Shrink wrapped bricks of $100-bills were stacked on pallets and loaded onto 20 cargo planes--a $12 Billion stimulus package to grease the wheels in the rebuilding of Iraq. And this year, the auditors
closed the books on the mystery:
So, whoever got their hand on $6.6 Billion of U.S. dollars, I say REALLY benefitted from the Iraq war.
While we're on the topic of tax-payer dollars paying for the reconstruction...In Paul Wolfowitz's memo that made the case for the war, we were supposed to finance the operation by selling the seized oil fields. That was supposed to be a benefit for us.
LINK
So, we went to war over lies, damn lies, and pipe dreams.
No WMD.
No Oil Profits.
New breeding ground for terrorists.
Iraq is this generation's Viet Nam. Yet 106 people believe it was worth it. I guess they must all be invested in Halliburton.
We could have covertly assassinated Saddam and his sons and, over time, orchestrated an uprising to overthrow the government--the South American CIA playbook is very cost effective.