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allegro , what in the holy hell were we doing in iraq? it boggles my mind!
190,000 lives (134,000 of those being civilians.)
2 TRILLION us dollars spent.
Iraq's healthcare infrastructure destroyed.
Extremism spread like wild fire throughout the region.
60 billion us dollars spent on "reconstruction," which for some reason means buying more police, NOT paying to repair the infrastructure we fucking ruined.
PRICELESS loss of US prestige on the world stage.
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allegro , i always thought it was about oil, but you shot that theory down.
I DAMN sure don't buy the damn WMD bullshit...plus, even if they HAD wmds , they most CERTAINLY didn't posses a missile capable of delivering a payload to much of ANYONE in the world.
I've heard of the "vendetta" idea. But i just can't buy that either. I'm gonna get you cause you pissed my daddy off on THIS scale?
Which leaves one thing...
A multitude of massive PERMANENT us Military Bases in Iraq, giving us a place from which to attack anyone in the middle east...like, for instance, Iran.
This is all i can figure.
Does anyone else have any ideas?