How much of the Iraq war is about Freedom and terrorists and how much is about expanding defense jobs .?

Question

The day Saddams network was destroyed was the day the war should have ended .
We did not need to find him all we needed to do was see that someone else took the reins in Iraq .
We should of left after 60 days .
Whats all the crap about needing a year to pull out .We pulled in quick and we can do the same now .

Answer 1

It almost funny the way people have been convinced that a tiny country like Iraq is a threat to the USA.
It would have been much more sensible and practical to have just removed Saddam and left the Iraqi army and security forces in place. Instead, we stationed troops there to protect contractors sent in to rebuild the damage caused by what, a week of warfare.
The infrastructure of Iraq was either deteriorated before we got there or nonexistent. The billions of dollars of outlay by the U.S. government to companies like Halibuton has nothing to do with the few buildings we blew up.
I remember one contractor telling a news reporter that they had just provided a water system to a section of a city somewhere that never had city water.
Other contractors talk about replacing electrical generating systems that was 50 years old and in the state of total disrepair. These are all multimillion dollar projects that had nothing to do with any bombs we set off.
There maybe a lot of truth in what you are suggesting. Since the invasion of Iraq, the USA has spent nearly 1/2 a trillion dollars in that country. Just how much stuff did we blow up in one week of fighting?

Answer 2

You can't fight a war without defense jobs providing the tools of war. All major industries during WWII converted to producing war materials, critical materials were rationed exclusively for the production and the workforce was mobilized into this production. It is very short sighted and cynical to buy into the premise that wars are started to create wealth or expand the job market. Some of the best economic times in this country were times of relative peace and prosperity.
If we had pulled out of Iraq immediately after ousting Saddam and not followed up with his capture, we would only be addressing the problem again when he resurfaced - or worse, when alQaeda or the Taliban took the reins. A country in such disarray would have been easy pickings for the terrorists to install their ideology of hatred and domination - and provided them a base to initiate future terror attacks.

Answer 3

The war was and is between the free world and the fundamentalist Islam.The chosen arena is Iraq and Afghanistan because Saddam was an animal and Taliban used Afghanistan as a huge base.I am not an American citizen but USA should stay there untill this problem is solved.This is not a regional problem and USA is the only country who has the power to solve it.

Answer 4

I think it's more like having a base of operations in the region, hence the giant embassy and bases in a nation we are supposedly going to leave soon.

This has never been about freedom or terrorism, fundamentally like all war it's about power.

Answer 5

Good thing you're not in charge. You don't seem capable of long term solutions to problems. Just ignore the buildup of a threat like Clinton did. We had a minor problem in 92, and it was a major problem in 2000 because of Clinton's ineptitude