Regarding any notion about "welcoming us" after we invaded Iraq...that only lives in Cheny's self serving fantasy....Would we welcome a nation that killed over 100,000 of our citizens and reduced our infrastructure to rubble...to get at our natural resources...? Please!
The Iraq invasion not only cost us much wasted money and lives...but any good will we may have had in that region...
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Oh get a handle on reality.
The fraudulent figure of over 100,000 is baseless. That's for starters.
Then, of course, a goodly number of the deaths that did occur were not caused by the US or her allies.
The infrastructure of Iraq was never reduced to rubble, although Saddam did do a number on Iraqi oil fields.
We WERE indeed welcomed, although not as roundly and soundly as Vice President Cheney apparently expected.
Our "invasion [sic]" wasn't so much an "invasion" as it was a liberation. Minor technical difference. The D-Day Invasion was an "invasion" too, I guess we can say, but not really the kind of invasion your use of the word seeks to suggest.
And there's not even a hint of support for the bogus claim that the "invasion" was to take natural resources. Since, you know, we didn't take any resources. Those "fact" things really perturb your universe, evidently.
And if we lost some measure of good will, perhaps that's because to do what we were doing there, we also had the liberal scumbag Democratics in THIS country busy undermining the job. Accordingly, our house divided did stuff in messy half-measures effectively screwing up the good we would otherwise have succeeded more fully in accomplishing.
By the way, when was the last time Saddam was able to use a "rape room" against his own people?