Was the war in Iraq worth it?

Question

For the same price as what the war in Iraq will eventually cost: at least 750 billion dollars, we could have either:

Allowed the government to hire a private company to offer the (optional) installation of $10,000 worth of solar panels *per home* in America and increase our wind energy resources and as such would have drastically reduced our dependence on foreign oil.

Or we could have ended homelessness in America 10x over (or almost worldwide)

Do you people really trust these politicians???

To: badfinger who says "you can not end homelessness, you can only fight the disease." Actually you are seriously wrong, homelessness could be ended (at least temporarily), statistically this is a FACT OF MATHEMATICS. The highest estimates of homeless people in america are about 750,000 and 750,000,000,000 divided by 750,000 comes to about 1 million dollars for every homeless person (enough money to make every homeless person in America a millionaire...more than enough for each homeless person to put a down payment on at least 10 homes each, or to buy at least three small homes a piece)

Answer 1

For the same money, we could have pursued terrorism in an intelligent, focused way. This would have been the preference of all Democrats, even the environmentalists. Remember back when the US first went to war against Bin Laden? The US as a whole was united in that goal!

At the cost of much less money and blood, we could have stayed in Afghanistan and killed Bin Laden.We could have supported the moderate government of Karzai and destroyed the evil Taliban. Guess what? We didn't accomplish anything in Afghanistan. Do you have any idea of what a mess it is? It's almost back to Taliban rule, the major export is raw heroin, high school principles have been kidnapped and beheaded, and girl's schools have had to close or be bombed.

Answer 2

You can use whatever fantasy you wish to spend the money in a different way, but one thing is for sure, the war is far from over. The invasion of Iraq was only the first step in what will become a much larger and real WAR. So far, it is a police action, not a true war. If only the citizenry of the USA only knew the long term plans which were put in place during the Reagan administration, they couldn't sleep at night. It will be only a short time and we will look back at Iraq as a speed bump. GET READ FOR A REAL WAR!!

Answer 3

It become a purely war while Bush 40-one did desolate tract typhoon. It wasn't properly well worth the cost of Bush 40 3 getting in following 9/11. concentration on Afghanistan fallowing 9/11 could have been understood, going after Saddam Hussein become ludicrous.

Answer 4

What happen to energy crisis ,when Nixon was President,there was big solar push?
You can't end the homeless,you can only fight the disease.
Most politicians ,when elected,have good intentions they get caught up in the lies to survive.

Answer 5

Iraq is not at present a pretty sight. Whether it will calm down in due course remains to be seen. What we will never know is how the situation would have developed in that region if the Americans (and allies) had not invaded Iraq. It could be that it would have been ten times worse.

Answer 6

War on Iraq is nothing but for the oil, who cares abt humans lives when you aim at money....currently, our government are runned by monsters who think nothing but their own...who cares abt the iraqi, they r all terrorist, thts wht our government wants us to thinks so we dont raise questions to the government.
Ofcourse politicians are evil, thts why there is war everywhere, sometimes i thinks wht mistakes we made in past like somalia, vietnam, congo, bosnia, etc we shld promote peace now, but there is even more war now then ever.... hell is getting loose mate....

I just hope we never witness ww3

Answer 7

Not at all. North Korea has always been our biggest threat after the cold war. Darfur has had far worse humanitarian problems than Iraq.

Answer 8

Who on earth trust these evil politicians.
I insist that the war on IRAQ was not really worth it. Dont have any idea why the war was imposed.

Answer 9

theres alot of flag-on the anttena waving bush huggers that think we are fighting a patriotic war against the marauding islamic invaders from hell... its pretty sickening to think people are really that gullible and in the end it will be our own stupidity that enslaves us.

Answer 10

But Americans wouldn't get to vent their anger on another fallen American puppet regime. Solar panels aren't sexy. Dropping bombs on children is.