So what has the war on Iraq gotten us?

[Onlooker]

The war is not meeting any of our objectives:
- Iraq is not free (except in an anarchic sort of way).
- The Iraqi infrastructure (including health and power) is a mess.
- 1000s of American soldiers have been killed or seriously injured.
- 10s of 1000s of Iraqi civilians have died.
- Terrorism is on the rise world wide.
- The new Iraqi constituion may assign women fewer rights than Saddam's constitution.
- The new Iraqi constitution will be rooted in Islamic law more so than Saddam's secular constitution.
- Al Qaida is having great success recruiting, and by some counts has 1,000 terrorists already in place.
- Oil prices are skyrocketing (while the Texas oil companies reap record profits).
- Our budget deficit is at levels not seen since Reagan was President.
- Iraq and Iran appear to moving closer together, united by their religion.
- Iran no longer has a major enemy on its border.
- Our nation is very polarized.
- Americans by and large do not feel safer (fear WWIII).

Please add to this list any other good or bad things about the war. I cannot think of anything good that this war has achieved.

[liberaliraqvet26]

1. Al Queda may be recruiting but we aren't...

our military is turning to shambles

[MSgt213]

2. Less freedom and more government intrustion for ourselves.

New laws to unwittingly run afoul.
More distrust of our real motives in foreign policy.
The inability to ever united any countries again against a true threat.

[Montauk6]

3. Nothing good, NOTHING GOOD!

- Young men and women, fresh out of high school, won't ever know the thrill of hearing the gurgling scream of their newborn.

- Young men and women, fresh out of high school, whose first experience in getting out in the world, consists of explosions, gunshots, decapitations, death, pain, torture.

- Middle-aged/elderly soldiers who were relieved at finally putting away their arms and becoming a happy civilian, raising a loving family, seeing their children graduate from college, holding their grandchildren; only to grimly learn that it was all one long furlough.

[mwb970]

4. America is now hated around the world. (n/t)

[HysteryDiagnosis]

5. You can blame all of this on

Chad.....



The incident has echoes of the 2000 Florida recount

Voting in Democratic Party primary elections in the American state of Florida has been delayed by technical problems.
In some polling stations new electronic touch-screen machines had to be replaced with the old punch-card systems, which were the source of much controversy in the 2000 presidential election.

[stocksthatgoup]

6. 50 million now living in terror

Afganistan & Iraq now have 50 million living in terror all because Bush and his crowd have unseated legitimate leaderships.

[manic expression]

7. You forgot...

schools, museums (with priceless pieces of history), hospitals, police stations and other very important buildings have been looted and outright destroyed.

We have wasted billions of dollars (I think it is around 200 billion by now, but I'm not sure).

The US has razed an entire city to the ground.

The world hates us.

Women have no rights in Iraq, and they are in constant danger (more so than men!).

Those are just a few.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

8. One more. Our "unbeatable" military is shown to be inept and brutal.

They have been shown to be excellent at defeating ill-equpped, ill-trained, 3rd world armies, with low morale.

In fighting an "unconventional war", they resort to the standard brute force tactics that have been popular with colonialists and conquerers since Caeser was choppping off hands and blinding people who resisted.

They never learn.

[SammyWinstonJack]

9. Any lurking FReepers care to comment on or add to this list?

:evilgrin: Please tell us about the great job your Pres. is doing.