http://news.yahoo.com/too-much-money-spent-iraq-too-few-results-051221182--politics.html
No accountability for the money spent…nobody fired…nobody goes to jail.
Whodathunkit?
-brickboy240
1.5 Trillion dollars in two back water shit hole country’s with almost nothing to show for it in terms of U.S. security. Just image what could have been done with that money here in the U.S. if it was wisely spent.
Isn’t globalization grand?
None of the people that flew planes into buildings was from Iraq.
When the Japanese bombed us…did we declare war on China?
A total waste…of lives AND money.
How about we work on building back our OWN damn nation?
-brickboy240
We should end ALL foreign aid until we are no longer in debt to other nations.
Don’t spend (or give away) more money than you have. Sounds simple but even a President cannot do it.
It was a war to pay back those that put Bush and Cheney in office - the defense contractors.
Much like giving the UAW a large chunk of Gm and Chrysler was payback to the unions for electing Obama.
Are we really that different than a place like Venezuela or Mexico these days? Kick backs and pay-offs and corruption running rampant.
It would have eliminated Obama’s deficit for one whole year!
Also…look at all the lives wasted.
Even some that came back were permanently injured or have PTSD in some form and are facing huge difficulties. Many families torn apart…forever. Others gave and came back to no job and a failing country.
…and for what?
-brickboy240
You know why.
You have absolutely no idea what you are talking about.
The war in Iraq was started to bring every militant arab fighter into the area so we could kill them. The highest concentration of muslim radicals is in the Iraq, Syria, Saudi Arabia region.
Afghanistan is not a arab country.
What about the 10 trillion added to our debt after bam bam gets out of office?
Scotty, I would say money. What was the amount quoted above . Someone got a good hunk of that, and you know damn good and well NOTHING this big happens without someone getting paid, bigtime.
But I think maybe a combo of yours and mine sounds more like it.
Unfortunately later rather than sooner people will get.
No. The Iraq war was started to find Hussein’s illegal WMDs, prevent those WMDs from falling into the hands of al-Qaeda and/or Hamas, and to save the poor Kurds.