"Lew Hodgett" wrote in message
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Let's see, on one side of the ledger we have:

Over $1 trillion of borrowed money was spent,

Over 4,000 lives were sacrificed,

Over 30,000 were wounded.

This is only the USA and doesn't include our allies or the Iraqis
themselves.

On the other side of the ledger we have:

Saddam Hussein is gone,

No WMDs were found,

No democratic form of gov't exists in Iraq,

In fact, at this point, Iraq still does not have a functioning gov't,

We built our largest embassy.

As a lyric from long ago goes, "When will they ever learn?"

Off the box.

Lew


Shouldn't it be:

on one side of the ledger we have:

Over $1 trillion of borrowed money was spent,
Over 4,000 lives were sacrificed,
Over 30,000 were wounded.
No WMDs were found,
No democratic form of gov't exists in Iraq,
Iraq still does not have a functioning gov't,

On the other side of the ledger we have:

Saddam Hussein is gone,
We built our largest embassy.

But that's only in your terms and is taking a pretty favourable view of the
outcome.

Why ffs do americans think only american lives count? The Iraq body count is
now around 100,000 civilian deaths.
You don't mention the wrecked cities, the polluted waters, the unexploded
ordnance.
You don't mention the total loss of respect that america has suffered world
wide from abu graib, from videos on youtube of marines killing civilians,
from the top level idiocy and deceit of it all, so that US citizens abroad
often pretend to be canadian rather than have taxi drivers and waiters
incessantly telling them what jerks they are, so that if there actually was
a reason to form invade a foreign country nobody, not even Tonga would join
you or support you.
You don't mention the cost to servicemen who come home uninjured who will be
spending the rest of their lives mentally unhinged.

And actually it was all totally predictable. Look at what Gen Norman
Schwarzkopf had to say about invading Iraq a few short years before Bush jr
did it.:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontl...arzkopf/7.html

Tim W