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.
Ask the Christian community if our invasion of Iraq was a good idea. They’re suffering more than anyone.
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.
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.
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.
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.
When George W. Bush came into office, he spoke against “nation building”, but after the Iraq War, that’s exactly what we got bogged down in. We should’ve collected war reparations and let Iraq figure out how to recover. It would have amounted to the same results we have today and we wouldn’t have lost as many troops and so much money.
Would’ve helped if we’d conducted the war correctly. Our mistake was deciding world opinion was more important than our own well-being.
I’m sure that war will start paying for itself any day now.
We went to war because someone dared insult George Bush Sr. He had a personal hatred for Sadam and Noreiga. I believe we went to war because Bush needed to smash something. Bush Sr. showed his feelings toward these two men and I was shocked at how personal it became to him. Not a healthy way to lead a country.
I felt so proud, and thought here we go again – America bringing freedom to the oppressed.
I was so wrong. Islam and liberty are not compatible. There will be no peace or progress in the Middle East until the EVIL of Islam is eradicated.
WWII was worth it. Since then, not one declared war, just misguided adventures in policing, nation building and ludicrous rules of engagement, wasting our troops and treasure at the bidding of Globalists.
I played a small part in the Vietnam fiasco - color me appropriately jaded, but don’t “thank me for my service” - if I served anybody at all, it was not you, nor this country, but the dark powers that have now taken our country to its ruin.
Iraq was payback by Dubya for Sadaam Hussein’s attempt to assasinate Bush 41.
Basically Iraq had nothing to do with the 9/11 attackss - 9/11 was just used as an excuse.
It was not only a mistake to invade Iraq - it was poorly conceived and executed at high levels.
In the almost 12 years since 9/11, under republican and democrat presidents, we have spent trillions of dollars, cost the lives of thousands of our finest military men and women, and made the mid-east more militantly muslim and more anti-American.
Who says bi-patisanship is dead?
Not without having taken the saudis and iranians down first.
The second Iraq war wouldn’t have been necessary if we had finished the first one back during the first Bush presidency.
It was no less than Colin Powell who put the kibosh on that one. Norman Schwarzkopf wanted to keep going, perhaps all the way to Baghdad, but Powell argued to President G.H.W. Bush that they stop prematurely. Schwarzkopf later commented that Powell “had no stomach” for war.
After the World Trade Center attack, Bush II probably reckoned he had to do _something_ as a show of force against “terrorism”, and Afghanistan wasn’t going to be “enough”. So, we got “Iraq II”.
I foresaw years ago that toppling both regimes would really gain little in the true struggle in which we are engaged. It should be obvious now that our efforts there were little more than wasted, particularly in Afghanistan (which will be back under taliban control before too long). All they had to do was “wait us out” until we just got tired of being there.
The problem with the struggle with islam is that we are not involved in a war with any existing national “government”, per se. Our struggle is with _something else_. Most here know what the “something else” actually is. Most leaders of The West are desparate to deny this truth.
Also, removing any particular individual (or more than one) from power will do little to change things — because the actual leader of the forces against which we are aligned has been dead for 1,400 years. Yet he still controls more than a billion of his “soldiers” through his “operational field manual” — the quran.
This is why the other side is winning.
It’s also why it will continue to win, so long as The West refuses to confront the realities before us….