if 2500 Americans were killed on 911?

Question

now that more than that amount of Afghanies,
also Iraqies have been murdered,
is it time for America to clean up its own mess?
is it time to forgive? how many more murders before the blood lust ends? or is it just distraction from business motivated economics?

Answer 1

if America left Iraq we'd all be dead in a matter of weeks.

Answer 2

This is the wrong forum for the question, but here's a partisan answer:

Saddam was a megalomaniac bastard, but he was hardly unique. You may have no idea how many of those we have tolerated, supported, and even placed into power over the past century. He is indeed the first we have been willing to run up a three-trillion dollar deficit (my figuring) to defeat, and for no reason at all.

He was also the absolute ruler of one of the few secular nations in the Near East. His enemies -- ie, fanatic Muslims -- are now our enemies. Saddam was as secular as Hitler. He only added -- I don't know how to get the Arabic script here, but it is the standard Islamic prayer opening -- to the flag when he began to realise that defeating Iran was not going to be easy.

The invasion of Iraq was certainly the most stupid thing a US president has ever done, and the costliest to a country now almost $9.000.000.000.000 in debt to virtually everyone. Well, that's the national debt. Our trade deficit during the Gwub years averages about $60,000,000,000 a month, but there is overlap here, as those trade dollars have to go somewhere, and many of them buy Treasury Bonds.

I can't challenge your figures, though I believe them small. One has also to consider the many Iraqis killed, businesses destroyed, trade disrupted, essential services nonexistent.

From the usian pov what little good will we had in the world has been destroyed by this useless, extraordinarily expensive occupation of a country that represented no threat to us, and in fact might have been a buffer to threats.

dixi