Did anything good come from invading Iraq?

Answer 1

you bet ye, the stockmarket is at record highs.

Answer 2

Not a single thing.

I think that removing Saddam Hussian from power was good, but not when you have to take the chance with what might replace him. If the current Iraq government doesn't remain stable then it could easily fall and the entire country would descend into chaos and it would be replaced by something similar to the Taliban. Also the Shiite-Sunni civil war in Iraq would never have happened if he were still in power.

For any positive result from the war I can name at least two negative ones.

I guess you could say that learning that Runsfleld's plan of using limited troops in an operation the size of the Iraqi invasion wouldn't work could be a good thing, but not at the price that was paid in human lives for it.

Answer 3

Well we haven't been attacked yet and Iran is trying to get nuclear weapons. Iraq and Iran hated eachother when Saddam was in power so the two would be fighting right now if Saddam was in power.

Answer 4

NOP... the only thing that the world got from the invasion of Iraq is an increasing amount of terrorist attacks and a division of the worlds countries... instead of communist vs capitalist its now islamic agaisnt the rest

Answer 5

Yes it did. If we weren't over there right now, they'd be in America, fighting on our streets, sitting in your living room. Plus if we were to pull out gas cost would double. Some people like to believe the media, but I wouldn't, they're wrong and just looking for something to complain about.

Answer 6

One good thing, got rid of Saddam Hussein.
But I'd think it may have been a mistake getting mixed up with that country at all.

Answer 7

Saddam is dead. Kurds & Shia are safe from mass murder. There is no threat of WMD's from Iraq any more.

Answer 8

Lots of good things have come from invading Iraq:
a) Halliburton and the Carlyle Group, two companies with direct ties to the Bush-Cheney White House, have made billions of dollars in profits as government contractors for work they've done in Iraq;
b) Many other companies on the corporate welfare plan have also made billions of dollars in profits, thanks to the gullible American taxpayers;
c) U.S. taxpayers have paid hundreds of millions of dollars for the construction of the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bush-Cheney administration;
d) Haliburton has been contracted to build fourteen (yes - 14) new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq;
e) Because it's made so much money as a U.S. government contractor, Halliburton is relocating its corporate headquarters offshore to avoid paying U.S. taxes on all that income;
f) American taxpayers are now TRILLIONS of dollars in debt, which will take generations to pay off (if we ever can), and which will give China an opportunity to take over as the world's richest - and most powerful - super power;
g) Thanks to George W. Bush's runaway war spending, Americans can expect to see themselves in an 84% tax bracket within 20 years - which means your children or grandchildren will have to earn $100,000 a year just to be able to live on $16,000.00;
h) Shortly after Bush leaves office, the U.S.A. will become embroiled in the worst economic depression in its history, far worse than the Great Depression of 1929;
i) The blood of 675,000 Iraqis and almost 4,000 U.S. soldiers will be on the hands of all Americans who did absolutely nothing to protest this war and put and end to such an insane, unjustifiable, immoral conflict;
j) 'Big Oil' will have earned so many BILLIONS in excess profits, it will be able to quickly dominate the new markets for alternative fuels such as ethanol, biodiesel, etc. (but that won't happen until every drop of OIL has been sucked out of the sands in Iraq and Iran);
k) China, our biggest creditor, will 'revoke our credit card' and send its own multi-million-man military over here to take whatever it wants: gas, banks, real estate, oil, water, coal, crops, minerals - even our young girls if there's a big demand for western women in the international sex-slave trade;
l) Our military will be reduced to an ineffective shell of its former self as the government won't be able to pay our soldiers or finance military hardware (which is why it will be so easy for China to take over);
m) Due to its total disregard for environmental issues so critical in 2003 - 2008, the Bush administration will watch impotently as our coastal cities begin to erode, flooding and violent storms begin to obliterate both ocean coasts, and many parts of Florida end up underwater;
n) Because we've alienated most of the rest of the world, AlQaeda will gain strength (in numbers and resources), and will begin effective 'terrorist' attacks throughout the United States of America;
o) Because the Bush administration ignored warnings about global warming, the depletion of the ozone layer, the depletion of the rain forests, and the disappearance of vital mangrove forests and wetlands, America will be in the midst of an environmental crisis as it sees the delicate and fragile ecological balance between all men, plants and animals decimate;
p) Thanks in part to the Bush administration's relaxed controls over corporate greed, prices will rise while consumers will receive less quality, less safety, and less satisfaction from virtually everything they buy - from autos to groceries to gasoline.
As you can see, it's all "good"! -RKO- 07/14/07

Answer 9

Iraqis are dying and suffering. Many are homeless and poor. What's so good about that?