Thread: U.S. war in Iraq officially ends...

Originally Posted by exphysiologist88

What has really been accomplished? Democracy? Iraqi freedom? Iraqi liberation? Saddam is dead, but he was never a threat in the first place. I agree w you that those fuckers are helpless and will slip into anarchy immediately, but we didn't really accomplish anything. At least nothing worth 800 billion dollars and 4,000 American lives.

I meant how long it will take for the puppet govt to collapse and the place to return to chaos. Probably won't take long. The only positive thing we accomplished was a few hundred thousand dead arabs. But, Saddam was already doing a fine job of that before we arrived. I'd be surprised if we didn't end up going back in after a few years, if we're still able to borrow the money at that time.

Originally Posted by GearsMcGilf

I meant how long it will take for the puppet govt to collapse and the place to return to chaos. Probably won't take long. The only positive thing we accomplished was a few hundred thousand dead arabs. But, Saddam was already doing a fine job of that before we arrived. I'd be surprised if we didn't end up going back in after a few years, if we're still able to borrow the money at that time.

Okay, agreed. I thought you were suggesting that we had accompolished something great.

Originally Posted by exphysiologist88

What has really been accomplished? Democracy? Iraqi freedom? Iraqi liberation? Saddam is dead, but he was never a threat in the first place. I agree w you that those fuckers are helpless and will slip into anarchy immediately, but we didn't really accomplish anything. At least nothing worth 800 billion dollars and 4,000 American lives.

for that you have to go back to the early 90's and the original wolfowitz doctrine (Defense Planning Guide). It called for the removal of Saddam from power to open up Iraqi oil to US & UK and the world markets and to establish a permanent military presence in the middle east to protect US interests.