It Will Take 100 Years to Pay Off the Iraq War

[drivebymedia]

Stupid ....

 

[drivebymedia]

"In 2003, President George W. Bush and Paul Wolfowitz, the deputy defense secretary, used the attacks on Sept. 11, 2001, to wage pre-emptive war against Saddam Hussein and a nuclear arsenal that did not exist. They promised a “free and peaceful Iraq” that would be a model of democracy and stability in the Arab world. While no one laments Saddam’s passing and violence is down from peak war levels, the country is fragile, with grave tensions between Sunnis and Shiites and Arabs and Kurds that could yet erupt into civil war or tear the state apart.


http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hp&_r=0

 

[DiamondDave]

opinion pieces as 'proof' by trolling troll.. priceless

 

[drivebymedia]

This one's for you timmy!

"Yet none of the Bush administration’s war architects have been called to account for their mistakes, and even now, many are invited to speak on policy issues as if they were not responsible for one of the worst strategic blunders in American foreign policy. In a video posted recently by the conservative American Enterprise Institute, Mr. Wolfowitz said he still believed the war was the right thing to do. Will he and his partners ever have the humility to admit that it was wrong to prosecute this war?



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hp&_r=0

 

[U2Edge]

If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat.

An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to relatives of Civil War veterans — 148 years after the conflict ended.



AP: Costs of US Wars Linger for Over 100 Years - ABC News

Which means the same could be said for any war, which essentially makes the statement irrelevant.

 

[Politico]

I'll be dead.

 

[U2Edge]

Ten Years After ....


"Ten years after it began, the Iraq war still haunts the United States in the nearly 4,500 troops who died there; the more than 30,000 American wounded who have come home; the more than $2 trillion spent on combat operations and reconstruction, which inflated the deficit; and in the lessons learned about the limits of American leadership and power.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hp&_r=0

The United States spent more money bailing out Detroit than it spent on the Iraq war. Spending on both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 13 years is only about 25% of what was spent on National Defense in total.

Also in terms of US casulaties, lets not forget these wars:

World War I 116,516 died; over 204,002 wounded
World War II 405,399 died; over 670,846 wounded
Korean War 36,516 died; over 103,284 wounded
Vietnam War 60,699 died; over 303,000 wounded

Just take the year 1968 in Vietnam, 16,500 US troops died and over 80,000 were wounded.

 

[drivebymedia]

Ten Years After ....


"Ten years after it began, the Iraq war still haunts the United States in the nearly 4,500 troops who died there; the more than 30,000 American wounded who have come home; the more than $2 trillion spent on combat operations and reconstruction, which inflated the deficit; and in the lessons learned about the limits of American leadership and power.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hp&_r=0

The United States spent more money bailing out Detroit than it spent on the Iraq war. Spending on both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 13 years is only about 25% of what was spent on National Defense in total.

Also in terms of US casulaties, lets not forget these wars:

World War I 116,516 died; over 204,002 wounded
World War II 405,399 died; over 670,846 wounded
Korean War 36,516 died; over 103,284 wounded
Vietnam War 60,699 died; over 303,000 wounded

Just take the year 1968 in Vietnam, 16,500 US troops died and over 80,000 were wounded.

So Bush and Cheney had plenty of room for more killing?

Do you think the same goal posts are in place for the 4 (four) Americans killed in Benghazi - who are the Republicans' kill-flavor of the month?

Stupid ...

 

[U2Edge]

Ten Years After ....


"Ten years after it began, the Iraq war still haunts the United States in the nearly 4,500 troops who died there; the more than 30,000 American wounded who have come home; the more than $2 trillion spent on combat operations and reconstruction, which inflated the deficit; and in the lessons learned about the limits of American leadership and power.



http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/20/opinion/ten-years-after-the-iraq-war-began.html?hp&_r=0

The United States spent more money bailing out Detroit than it spent on the Iraq war. Spending on both Iraq and Afghanistan over the past 13 years is only about 25% of what was spent on National Defense in total.

Also in terms of US casulaties, lets not forget these wars:

World War I 116,516 died; over 204,002 wounded
World War II 405,399 died; over 670,846 wounded
Korean War 36,516 died; over 103,284 wounded
Vietnam War 60,699 died; over 303,000 wounded

Just take the year 1968 in Vietnam, 16,500 US troops died and over 80,000 were wounded.

So Bush and Cheney had plenty of room for more killing?

Do you think the same goal posts are in place for the 4 (four) Americans killed in Benghazi - who are the Republicans' kill-flavor of the month?

Stupid ...

What I'm saying is that the cost was far lower than in past wars launched to protect US security. The Planet, and global economy is dependent on energy supplies from the Persian Gulf and that is well protected now that Saddam's regime has been removed.

 

[Jimbo]

If history is any judge, the U.S. government will be paying for the Iraq and Afghanistan wars for the next century as service members and their families grapple with the sacrifices of combat.

An Associated Press analysis of federal payment records found that the government is still making monthly payments to relatives of Civil War veterans — 148 years after the conflict ended.



AP: Costs of US Wars Linger for Over 100 Years - ABC News

As I recall the Associated Press did everything in it's power to give aid and comfort to the enemy during the Iraq war. You couldn't tell the difference between the A.P. stories and Al-Jazeera. Democrats authorized the operation and then did everything they could to undermine the effort. Senate majority Harry Reid told America "the war is lost" just as the Troop surge was underway. Democrats snickered and joked about a full page ad (at a discount price courtesy of the Times) in the NY Times calling the US commander "betray-us" for no other reason than it rhymed with Petraeus.

Oh, how true......And while your media and Demoprats gave comfort to the enemy, our useless lot over here in the UK were doing the same....Faking photographs of our troops supposedly urinating on captured Iraqis....Various newspapers and TV commentators alike putting to print and spreading lies and half truths just to make a story that makes us look like uncontrolled animals in combat and the enemy look like poor victims of the aggressive West.....It didn't then, and doesn't now, matter to these Left Liberal media shitheads that it is THEY who are responsible for the emboldenment of the enemy and prolonging the conflicts by their totally biased and thoughtless reporting....
I wonder how many people were murdered needlessly because of these morons?? Strange that when they were found out, nobody was bought to book....Much like Obama and his witch Clinton with the Benghazi affair......

The Liberal media are the "useful idiots" of the Islamic propaganda machine But they're so stupid that they cannot see they are being manipulated