Has anything about our war in Iraq been positive for Americans?

[dahunan]

Has it done anything beneficial for America?

 

[HumblePie]

It has made for some entertaining reading on these forums at the very least.

 

[JSt0rm]

no. It has done nothing for us. Infact I would say the negatives are so great as it broke our back.

 

[khon]

Getting rid of Saddam was certainly a positive.

Is it enough to outweigh all the negatives though ? Not even close.

 

[Jaskalas]

Has it done anything beneficial for America?

It was so unpopular that Republicans, including John McCain, lost elections.

 

[JSt0rm]

Getting rid of Saddam was certainly a positive.

Is it enough to outweigh all the negatives though ? Not even close.

why was it a positive for Americans?

 

[SammyJr]

Getting rid of Saddam was certainly a positive.

Why, as an American, should I have given a shit about Saddam Hussein?

 

[PricklyPete]

We got cheaper oil of course!

All kidding aside, I can't think of one positive outcome of this war.

 

[Sclamoz]

Why, as an American, should I have given a shit about Saddam Hussein?

He was a destabilizing influence in the middle east and worked against the US.

 

[Red Dawn]

He was a destabilizing influence in the middle east and worked against the US.

Not as much as he hindered Iran.

 

[her209]

Its a positive if you're Xe/Blackwater or Haliburton employee and/or stock holder.

 

[amdhunter]

Less Muslims.

 

[JSt0rm]

hands down the dumbest thing we ever did. But we knew we would end up doing dumb things with the leadership we had. I still remember seeing bush in front of Crawford Texas with a line of salty old crackers behind him and the media talking about his record fundraising. It was then that I knew we were doomed.

 

[Sclamoz]

Not as much as he hindered Iran.

I didn't say removing him from power was all positive.

 

[Orignal Earl]

why was it a positive for Americans?

One would have to wonder if it was a positive for Iraqis as well.

 

[JSt0rm]

I didn't say removing him from power was all positive.

rrrright. Face it, iraq was a massive mistake. Neocons like spidey, nick and the republican tour de force blindly supporting the worst craptastic clusterfuck in world history should all get on their knees and apologize for trying to think.

 

[JSt0rm]

One would have to wonder if it was a positive for Iraqis as well.

Well they are all dead now so we cant ask them.

 

[HeXploiT]

We are all more patriotic!

 

[ayabe]

Of course, pumping billions of dollars into the pockets of the politically well connected. The beneficiary's of said billions are mostly Americans, so to represent my defense industry oligarch homies, I say, YES, YES, a thousand times, YES!

Edit - I'm very disappointed that with all the ordinance we've worked to develop, we still haven't perfected the Stealth Banana that we could guide into hungry peoples' mouths with precision accuracy. The late great Bill Hicks was talking about this almost 20 years ago! Come on people.

 

[JSt0rm]

Notice how noone came in to defend the war lmao. ok then.

 

[Lemon law]

Getting rid of Saddam was certainly a positive.

Is it enough to outweigh all the negatives though ? Not even close.

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Getting rid of Saddam, a positive, getting rid of GWB&co priceless.

But we all have to remember, 1/4 century before they hung Saddam up by the neck until dead, Saddam was our guy in the mid-east. And now all we have left is some old stock photo's of Rumsfeld shaking Saddam's hand as he said, how can we help you buy poison gas and other WMD?

Well dead man tell no tales, but I suspect some US skulduggery was going on then.

 

[bfdd]

I guess I could argue my brother wouldn't of met and married his wife if it wasn't for the Iraq war, but I can't really speak for him about it being positive.

 

[Orignal Earl]

Well dead man tell no tales, but I suspect some US skulduggery was going on then.

This is why he was only charged with the Dujail Massacre and not the Halabja poison gas attack, and then promptly executed.

 

[Darwin333]

Has it done anything beneficial for America?

"Shock and awe" looked pretty damn cool on TV. Say what you want about America but we are really good at blowing shit up.

 

[AnnonUSA]

We learned who our friends were and who we cannot trust.