Re: Iraq Worth The Cost, Apparently.


"Tiglath" <temp5@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes folks, a new poll reveals that most Republicans believe that the
Iraq War has been worth the cost.

Wonders will never cease...

How many Republicans can give a good rationale, I wonder, for such a
belief.

Can Mr. Hines?

The cost is between half and one trillion dollars, thousands of dead
soldiers, tens of thousands of wounded soldiers and that amorphous
mass of dead Iraqis no one wants to count.

The cost is high, especially if seen in terms of the things that could
have been done with that money instead, which we can' do, at the
national level. And that is just the money.

The Return on the Investment is quite clear. That's the puzzling
part. Few times in life one can so clearly see what a lousy
investment this has been.

We got rid of Saddam Hussein, a tin-pot dictator who was no threat,
who had not the means to be a threat either, and whose services are
badly needed today in Iraq.

We made Al-Qaeda stronger, enabling the creation, the Al-Qaeda in
Mesopotamia Branch, a.k.a Al-Qaeda's Disneyland, which provided
jihadist with a recruitment center and a boot camp to die for rolled
into one. Live Fire Drill with Real Americans 24 x 7 x 365.

We have increased Iran's influence in the region enormously.

We have divided our country bitterly, and the people who ought to run
the country have spent an enormous amount of energy and attention on
an unnecessary war instead of on our more pressing problems.

People hate us for two main reasons, envy and our foreign policy.


Well, they hate us for our arrogant stupidity, and for the damage it causes.

If we had been able to make the Iraq occupation work in generating a decent
situation, the world might resent us to some degree for being intrusive, but
there would have been grudging admiration.

In everyday life, Bush is like a stupid *** who won't shutup, always
asserting themself into situations, always damaging things, leaving messes
for others to deal with, and shirking responsibilty.

There are great things about the US, but it's too stupid and too lacking in
character to be considered a great nation, aside from its power.

As for how many people honestly believe in the American Iraq venture, I'll
just point out that there are 300 million people in the country, a huge
number of military age males, the military is small in numbers, the
casualties are quite low compared to other wars, daily living conditions in
the combat zones is usually much better than previous wars, and
nevertheless the military has to use immigrants and economically
disadvanteged people for recruits, and is even then not succeeding to good
standards.

We're a country showing real signs of decay, and the Republican party is a
rotten organization.










We
can do little about the former, but Iraq has greatly exacerbated the
latter, we live in a world content to gloat at our misfortunes at the
moment. Not good.

Our military has been misused and abused; it is less feared and it is
under heavy stress, which might well lead to dysfunction. I hear we
are admitting the criminal and the obese into the ranks in order to
preserve the illusion that we can recruit normally.

... And counting, because it is not yet over.

So can someone, Republican or otherwise, tell me how this resounding
fiasco has been worth the cost?



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