How will history judge bush's Iraqi war?

[Botany]

Is Iraq America's biggest mistake since slavery?

Because of 9/11 we invaded a country that had nothing to do w/
9/11 to look for weapons that were not there? We will have spent over
$300 billion (and growing), created more terrorists, looted oil, and caused
@ least 100,000 unneeded deaths to carry out the insanity of the PNAC.

http://www.newamericancentury.org/iraqclintonletter.htm

I pray that a judgmental God does exist because if their is a hell
cheney and his gang already have their tickets punched.

[JackDragna]

1. Depends on what the world looks like in the future.

If people are as disgusted by the war as they should be, then the war will be considered a tragedy and Bush will be seen as he is: a buffoon, manipulated by megamillionaire cronies. If, however, the Bushes are successful in pushing the world to the right, then perhaps schoolchildren of the future can read about his glorious victory over the terrifyingly powerful forces of Saddam. I smell a TV movie.

[Faab32]

2. The judgment is by the winner ....

Sadly, he will be judge the same wasy Reagan was judge, based on fale image,

take a look at the book

No Questions Asked

and you will see how the media let this happen.

Cheers,
/FA

[AX10]

4. Not exactly, remember, Bush is not seen in the same...

positive light that Reagan is. Also, Bush is far less popular with the people than Reagan who was popular.

[madrchsod]

3. ranks in the top 5 the worst

geo-political wars in history.remember this isn`t just bush`s war because this war started with his dad with clinton keeping the sanctions. georgie`s problem is that his handlers could not buy out saddam so they wanted him dead. silenced men can tell no tales.

[Davis_X_Machina]

5. It's the most successful camaign ad of all time...

...and the most expensive.

And that's how they looked at it then, and look at it now.

[illflem]

6. Bush and his war

will be in the same history book chapter with Hitler and his invasion of Western Europe.

[Yupster]

7. Maybe similar to the Spanish_American War

I guess it will depend on the results, but that one was also started under false pretences. It's little remembered today.

[mtnsnake]

8. Hopefully, future history books will read that Bush's war was illegal &

that Bush was impeached, along with being tried and convicted for war crimes...and exiled to the Arctic Circle where he was forced to see with his own two eyes the damage from the Greenhouse Effect.

[Botany]

9. Nice thought .....

...... i want him to get his chain saw and go out and do some work
without his handlers ..... that should be enough ......

[Nikki Stone 1]

10. Knowing high school history books, it will be a sad but inevitable war

like Vietnam. Bet you the focus will be on the logistics and not on the root causes. And I'd bet money that the DSM won't ever appear in one of those little side boxes.

[bonzotex]

11. I hope we live long enough to find out

With the comfort of historical hindsight, most wars end up being remembered for what they were really about rather than whatever was claimed as the reason at the time.

Bush will be seen as a rather dull and highly manipulated political opportunist and the Iraq War 2 as an almost inevitable resource war launched by a greedy and declining superpower.

Unfortunately, but probably correctly, the American people as a whole will be blamed for electing "leaders" of such meager intelligence and flawed ideology and continuing to support them even after their policies failed over and over and over. Because a minority of the American adults and a bare plurality of voters are scared shitless of the wrong things and unable to cope with a changing world, we'll all get the blame.

The so called, "War on Terror" will be seen as the convenient excuse it is for the US to make a last futile attempt to dominate the world's economy through force when peaceful economic means began to fail.

Finally, future historians will look back in wonder at how a small minority of religious fundamentalists could hijack the government of the world's richest and most powerful secular Democracy, thus ensuring it would become bankrupt, weak, reviled and less Democratic.

People point out correctly that the winners write the history books and these books won't be written Muslim or Christian fanatics on either side, but rather by the well educated elites of other nations who benefited while the United States gleefully bashed it's own brains out.

[dkofos]

12. It depends on wether or not he is executed for his crimes.