What did we accomplish in Iraq?

[NightWatcher]

serious question


What are we accomplishing in Af/Pak?


WMD's?

9/11?

???????? of $$$$$$$$$$

[Subdivisions]

1. We're securing resources by brute force and violent death. n/t

[GoCubsGo]

20. And, we enriched a bunch of private contracting corporations

Among them, Halliburton, Blackwater... We made a handful of people very rich.

[TheKentuckian]

2. Destabilized the region, the deaths of shit loads of Iraqis, control of the reserves to the global

corporate syndicate, and greatly enhanced the influence of Iran to start.

[AndyA]

3. We're shoving "democracy" down the throats of the people who live in those countries,

whether they want it or not.

We made corporations incredibly rich with no-bid contracts.

G.W. got to be a war Prezident.

Bush and Cheney got to walk around acting like they could still get stiffies...big men, all that destruction and fire power in the Middle East...better than sex.

Oh, and G.W. got even for Daddie Bush, finally got that Saddam after the elder idiot didn't get him during Desert Storm.

See? Not all bad. :eyes: :(

[SoCalDem]

4. We healed a rift between Iran & Iraq and secured a spot in history for this guy

[indepat]

5. Doubt if it were making this part of the world safe for democracy

:)

[damntexdem]

6. Quite a bit, really:

war crimes;
major addition to national debt;
fomenting of hate of America around the world;
many, many deaths;
destruction of much of the legacy of seven millenia of human civilization;
enhanced the regional power of Iran;
failure to follow up initial ousting of Taliban in Afghanistan with nation building;
and more.

[MichiganVote]

7. We paid with lives and capital to hang George Bush's nemisis

[Bluebear]

8. Exactly.

[Barack2theFuture]

9. death, fear, profits (for a few)

[activa8tr]

10. We gave George W Bush four more years to destroy America's economy and that of

the rest of the world.

We gave Afghanistan the chance to stay a lawless state for 5 more years.

We gave Republicans excuses to be stupid, because they looked like patriots. (We are ALL patriots but Republicans are just the stupid ones).

[another saigon]

11. a permanent presence in The MidEast?

I believe that was the plan and the US has succeeded mightily.

:(

[gratuitous]

12. Halliburton is saved to continue paying Dick Cheney's pension

Sure, it sucks if you or a loved one was a casualty of the War for Cheney's Pension, but think how much more comfortable the entire Cheney family is, and how much less they have to worry now that Halliburton is again restored to solvency.

[activa8tr]

13. So we should stop paying him a taxpayer pension, too, right? OH WAIT

no one has asked for that money back for that multi-millionaire yet?

SHOCKED!! I'm SHOCKED !!!

[Individualist]

14. Death and destruction.

[baldguy]

15. 4700 allieds killed, ~1,000,000 Iraqis killed and $2,000,000,000,000 pissed away,

[era veteran]

16. Beginning of the end of 'The American Era'

Stupid fucking war.

[Skittles]

17. nothing

[provis99]

18. we killed Saddam for blowing up the World Trade Center.

At least, that's what my government told me.

[Turbineguy]

19. We accomplished next to nothing in Iraq

But we did feed Bush's ego. OK, Saddam Hussein and his even worse sons are gone. But we did not need to invade for that.

But we already knew that going in.

[Owl]

21. Nothing.

[Urban Prairie]

22. Achieved some of the PNAC's stated objectives.

I loathe each and every single neocon who was/is part and parcel to it.

[mmonk]

23. A loss of any remaining innocence I had regarding my country.