On Oct 12, 1:23*pm, "SteveT" >
wrote:
> "MoPar Man" > wrote in message
>
> ...
>
> > QX wrote:
>
> >> This country is going down the road to hell, and Mr. Obama is
> >> yelling full steam ahead all the way.
>
> > And Bush was different?
>
> > What did he do in 8 years, besides send thousands of US troops to their
> > death at a price of a trillion dollars and counting?
>
> You might as well ask, what did FDR and Truman do besides sending thousands
> of US troops to their death at a price of <whatever number of current
> dollar-equivalents was spent in the execution of WW II>)?


You really think WW II was the same? Iraq was no threat to us,
period, and Bush either knew it or should have known it.

> But I expect
> everyone gets your point, you believe it was a waste. Millions of
> now-free-from-Ba'ath-domination Iraqis, Iranians and Kuwaitis threatened by
> their formerly bellicode neighbor and Israelis would almost certainly
> disagree with *you.

Yet poll after poll shows the Iraqis resent our presence there and
want us out. Explain why something that had no bearing on us was
worth 4000 American lives, $1 trillion, and loss of US reputation the
world over.

Now the threat is Iran (which Iraq held in check) and terrorists
recruited by American actions in Iraq.