Posted on 03/19/2013 7:10:41 AM PDT by Kaslin
Yes, today, it was worth it. God Bless our military and the sacrifices they made.
Not at all
Trillions spent, 4,000+ American lives lost, for what?
A radical Shia state now aligned with Iran and against US interests?
This is why 4,000 of our best sacrificed their lives? This is why we spent over a trillion dollars?
No. The world is a much less safe place because of it. Iraq kept Iran in check, prior to the war.
If Bush the First had finished the job in 1991, we wouldn’t have had to be back in again.
Never finish wars half way, you just leave a mess for others to clean up later.
I echo your point about “God bless our miltary,” but was Iraq worth the spillage of American blood and treasure, just to hand some extra real estate over to Iran? HELLLLLLLLLLLL NO!!!
Ask the Christian community if our invasion of Iraq was a good idea. They’re suffering more than anyone.
It wasn't our job to "finish." Granted, we should NEVER have authorized Saddam use of the attack choppers vs. the marsh Arabs and the Kurds.. but to roll into Baghdad? No way.
Why not?
And that was exactly the question a mid-western family asked me in 2005, when I brought their son back home to them, remains not viewable. I changed the subject.
Because to form that coalition we did, everyone agreed the mandate was only to dislodge him from Kuwait.
Well, "everyone" was wrong, and we paid for it dearly.
F U Pat. Did you even listen to the speech? Did you hear what the President said? Or are you just a tool, jumping on a band wagon?
Soon, however, America found herself in a new, unanticipated war, and by 2006
Confirmed. You are a tool, because that was what the President warned against.
We paid for it dearly, because we chose to. Saddam Hussein was as evil as they come and so were his perverted sons, but let's keep it straight here... WE started that war in 2003... not him.
As I recall, the left wanted an "exit plan", a limited operation to achieve a desired goal. Bush caved in to that, his mistake, but let's remember that it was the Democrats who got what they wanted, and that is where a share of the blame needs to be placed.
Nope, total waste of some of our finest warriors!! makes me sick! I see nothing worth the financial and far more important lives that were lost or destroyed because of it... with no political will to really win they were doomed from the start, no matter how bravely they faught.
Iraq as Bush left it in 2008;
Iraq as Obama "transformed" it since he took the reins;
I believe in 2008, Iraq had a better than 50% chance of becoming a free, modern, pro-American state.
After Obama, he flushed all such hopes down the toilet, just as he's doing in Afghanistan.
Well that seemed to be a pattern with the Bush’s...giving into the Democrats....Gee, how did that work out for them, and for the GOP in general?
Amen to that. If it was so important to dislodge Saddam, we should've cultivated contacts with disaffected members of the Ba'ath Party.
No! It was not worth it. Nothing in that part of the World is worth our trying to save. We fought because Iraq invaded Kuwait and was killing just for the fun of it. It was a UN war! Forgot that? And we were the main Country in the UN. Iraq under Hussein was a cruel inhumane Country.
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