I find it fascinating that whenever the so-called "brotherly love" liberals talk about the Gulf War II, the first thing they want to talk about is always the money that it cost. No discussion of the human misery, like the millions of people tortured and murdered by Saddam Hussein during his 24-year rule?
First off, only someone that is politically ignorant would state that only liberals have a problem with what you call "Gulf War II". Moreover, your opinion reeks of rancid stench in citing "money blown" as the primary exception us pro
Constitutionalists cite for the enormous blunder of invading a country that was no threat to our own sovereinty and safety.
Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator that killed, not his own people" as you allege, but political enemies that were a perceived threat to his reign...i.e. The Sunnis and to a much lesser extent, the Kurds. But beyond all that, the mission of "Gulf War II" was sold to the gullible sheeple...like yourself, was that Saddam posed an imminent threat to
our country, inspite of the fact that none existed...at all, at all, at all.
As we all know today, the mission was based on intelligence deliberate manipulation encompassing scores and scores of lies....to the members of Congress, the American people, and most importantly, our recent high school grads who died thinking they were fighting states that orchestrated the attack on 9-11.
And your "scoreboard of misery" is so far off one begs to wonder if you have ever read a stat chart on the total casualties over there.
Our dead have exceeded 4600, with our "maimed for life" figure hovering over 40,000....those that are permanently maimed for life...and will have to be taken care of from the IOW's of our future taxpayers...because Lord knows....we are completely broke.
No mention of the 3,000 Americans who have died in the ten years of American presence in Iraq an Afghanistan? No mention of the genocide of 100,000 Iraqi Kurds? No mention of the 500,000 Iranian and Iraqi soldiers killed in Saddam's war there?
The Iran/Iraq war was none of our goddamned business...yet we made it our business, did we not? Would you enjoy it if I posted a picture of Donald Rumsfeld smiling, while shaking hands with Saddam Hussein in 1983? Well would you? Does it bother you in the least that we supplied arms and money to Saddam Hussein in the 80's?
9quote]No mention of the fact that Saddam murdered his own citizens every day? Or have you forgotten about those videos of the executions? You didn't catch the liberal money disease, did you? [/quote]
Saddam Hussein was a murderous dictator....but he did NOT murder his own people. His own people were his loyalist Shia branch of the Muslim religion, the far more sectarian group. He was at war. Peopke at war kill their enemies. That's what the definition of war is.
Anyhow, since you insist on talking about the money, let's talk about it. You said that Bush spent uh....let's see...
Yes indeed, let's talk about it. Keep in mind.....Bush and his minions were not transparent in the costs associated with Iraq. A slimeball thing to do...for sure.
Actually it was somewhat less than that, but let's use your figure. The eventual projected cost could hit your number. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but wouldn't that be just about the entire 8-year budget deficit of the GWB administration? And less than President OBlahBlah has spent in not even three? So much for all of the so called wild spending of the Bush administration. Using your own numbers, if it hadn't been for Katrina, the budget deficit under Bush would have actually gone down significantly, right?
SMFH. We are talking about the cost of war....stay on topic.
