War in Iraq

[patwart]

The decision of war in Iraq was a 50-50 decision. One day Us have to attack on Iraq. Bush just started it. But this war wasn't as easy as they thought. It costs American's a lot of lives and money.
My personal opinion is War in Iraq was a good decision

[vpars]

It's a difficult one but what we do know

1)Saddam was a despot
2)We will never fix Iraq
3)There will be no winners
4)We went in there for the wrong reasons
5)We were lied to

Overall you have got to say it can be justified but not when you look at all the none oil based countries we have not gone in to.

[jcr4runner]

I agree that in a cost-effectiveness analysis, it is difficult to defend still being in Iraq. There are other countries with WMDs, but we cannot afford to invade them too and then rebuild their country.

Originally, Iraq was meant as a warning to other countries that would build up weapons supplies and support terrorism. Libya dismantled its weapons program voluntarily. We are now trying to bring the same pressure on Iran. The difference with Saddam is that he actually did kill hundreds of thousands of his own people with WMDs. He still had WMDs in violation of the UN treaty and was developing more.

The only "lie" was perpetrated by the media in saying there were no WMDs. We are still dismantling chemical weapons that need to be disposed of in a responsible way. It's an established fact that Saddam had WMDs and would have used them. It's also thought that our intelligence has proof of more that is not public knowledge for security reasons.

I am not a shill for the Republican Party. I hate what Bush did to our economy with deficit spending. However, history will show that he saved millions of lives by reacting strongly to the threat of terrorism. We do need to finish what we started, but it is also true that we have serious problems economically that will prevent us from doing this again.

[Doug Wright]

Bombing has never won a war except by threatening civil populations. Millions have died there and millions held in prison. We have no sanction for any of it. The reason the photo's of late are not released is the cruel sexual torture practised in 'israel' is done there by 'contractors' even on children in front of their parents; this is the push for legality that Bush went for. The war is for 'israel' not for U.S. Our culture is being sacrificed for others.

[jcr4runner]

Millions have died there and millions held in prison.

Where do you get your figure of "millions"?

It's a fact the hundreds of thousands were killed by Saddam. It's a fact that thousands have died on both sides in the current war. But I doubt the figure of "millions."