http://www.usnews.com/debate-club/10-years-later-was-the-iraq-war-worth-it
Yesterday marked the 10 year anniversary of the invasion of Iraq. At the time, the Bush administration believed that American troops would be "greeted with sweets and flowers," as one advocate put it, due to their effort to oust Saddam Hussein from power.
But a decade after the war began, it is perhaps the costs—not the victories—that are most prominent: 4,488 American lives lost, more than 32,000 Americans wounded, and untold pain to those who came back traumatized by their experience.According to a recent Gallup poll, a majority of Americans believe that the Iraq War was not worth fighting. "Our war in Iraq, I think was the most fundamentally bad, dangerous decision since Vietnam," Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said during his confirmation hearing.(Hagel voted for the war when he was a U.S. senator.) And Rep. Raul Grijalva, D-Ariz., told the Arizona Republic, "I think the legacy of this is always going to be that it was a mistake, that it was pre-emptive, that it wasn't based on real information, and that the whole struggle could have been handled differently."But its most staunch supporters maintain that the war was worth it. Tony Blair, then the prime minister of the United Kingdom and a key U.S. ally at the time of the invasion, recently told the BBC,"If we hadn't removed Saddam from power just think, for example, what would be happening if these Arab revolutions were continuing now and Saddam, who's probably 20 times as bad as Assad in Syria, was trying to suppress an uprising in Iraq?
NO IT WAS NOT!
only someone who loss nothing because of this misguided arrogant " i'm going to war with who i want and we can beat them", don't forget the oil it's with the WMD's, attitude can say it was worth it, defend it and claim no responsibility for war crimes.
the eye was taken off our safety by the Pres. Bush who's party told us only they can keep us safe he ignored Intel telling him of impending strikes, he chose to attack the wrong place deliberately ignoring Afghanistan, then when Bin Laden was cornered he let him off by assigning his capture to others not American, needless to say again mission not accomplished. now 10 years later the right wing is saying "no attacks on our soil since 911 Bush kept us safe". makes you feel a little like vomiting. but there will still be those who will ignore that and vote republican again and suffer the same as we have for the next ten years.
this is what Bush and his party are deserving of,
