Well, I’m not a member of Code Pink and I think the Iraq war was a sham.
It was.
And anyone here that looks at the thousands of Americans killed, a nation that is now part controlled by ISIS and Iran, trillions in the toilet, and not one damn WMD, is nothing more than a pig-headed mule.
I fully admit I was for it back then, and taunted lots of leftists about their opposition, and I fully admit I was wrong.
there ya go
“Fight them over there so we do not have to fight them here”. Yet B and O have been inviting them over in plane loads. In a few years, God willing we all still have weapons, we will be fighting them over here as well.
Hah...they did not even embrace us as liberators.
The US has never figured out to this day, that those Mideast mudholes needed strongmen like Saddam and Khadafi to contain their whacko people....who are now marauding all over Europe....and are coming here.
The indigenous Mideaster/s saw the money-making opportunities of a superpower in their midst, and the US stupidly let them pick our pockets.
The US gamely decided to "train" these people.... it took five years and billions of dollars to get 4-5 of them ready for combat. They/re now using billions in abandoned US war materiel against us.
The war profiteering was humongous; the WSJ announced neocon godfather Richard Perle (above the fray---conveniently based in Paris) was starting his own Mideast oil company.
The biggest fraud was at the Bank of Kabul where the CIA and DOD deposited billions to finance the war. Afghan insiders could withdraw all they wanted---w/ no requirement to pay it back. Afghanistan/s Kharzi was seen loading billions of US dollars into a truck to send abroad.
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Bush estimated the Iraq strike would cost $50-60 billion.......then an angry Bush fired advisor Larry Lindsey because Lindsay dared to say the war might cost more like $100 billion.
That was in 2007 dollars.
FAST FORWARD TO TODAY Iraq and Afghanistan today have cost the US some $3 TRILLION....and rivers of young blood.
We/re still pouring US tax dollars into those decrepit Mideast countries, and..... as Donald says....we got NOTHING in return.
My personal thoughts when Bush first decided to invade was -”He is trying to avenge the attack on his father.” Next, I could not believe he was so dumb as to fight Hussein who was the only one keeping Iran out of Iraq.