[RubinBoomer]

Remember it was the “intelligence community” that told us there were WMDs in Iraq - even though UN inspectors on the ground couldn’t find any.

All of that is a bit murky. I recall Sadam refusing and delaying access to UN inspectors.

Personally, I was for destroying Iraq and establishing airbases for strategic offensive operations in the region. Iraq would provide us bases to surround Iran on all sides. At no time was I for nation rebuilding. Quickly, brutally lay waste to our enemies and get out ASAP with the least amount of American human and financial loss.

[rintintin]

I’m with Trump. He said the Iraq war was a disastrous mistake based on lies about WMDs. He also said the Middle East was better off with Saddam in power.

[robowombat]

Your argument is from national interest. The new globalist would be ruling class want wars that are both profitable for them and that advance ‘progressive’ policies. Iraq is the all time classic example. There has never been a real accounting as to how much both support ops for US and allied forces cost and the Iraq reconstruction effort was, in my opinion, made deliberately so complex and opaque deliberately so accountability was impossible and even figuring out a good cost estimate also impossible.