Quote:What negative consequences? So what would Iraq be like if such didn't happen? I am amazed how so many individuals admired Saddam Hussein.....and fail to remember how scared many were after 9/11 with regards to those that wanted us dead.
What negative consequences? 4,500 U.S. KIA and over 30,000 U.S. WIA. We see many of those in TV ads.
Monetary?
Quote:NEW YORK The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.Mar 14, 2013Quote:
What else? Oh yeah. Bush cut taxes during war for the first time in U.S. history, presto....deficits out the wazoo.
You talk about fear? That's because the Administration conflated Iraq with the 9/11 terror attack, carried out by Saudis. Then they, Cheney in particular, ginned up the WMD B.S. Yeah, it WAS fear alright.
Straw man argument to claim anyone 'admired' S. Hussein. Who TF has expressed that on this board?
The point was that Saddam kept a lid on the sectarian madness he certainly knew would tear the country apart. Think ISIS get's a foothold anywhere in a Saddam ruled Iraq?
So yeah, I don't think we see the failed state that Iraq is today and I'm pretty sure there would be 200K+ Iraqis still alive if not for the intervention and the aftermath.
We had the lesson from the breakup of Tito's Yugoslavia. We had the lesson from Gulf War I, with Bush senior NOT going to Bagdad.
'We' being anyone who cared to look at all of that. Seems the minimum we should have expected from the Bush Admin.
