What benifit did the war in Iraq have to anybody other than killing millions of Iraqi citizens?

Question

Is this the price of oil?

Answer 1

Now its not just a million its millions, wow our military is good. There are still 1.6 billion Muslims left, we have enough to go around.

"Millions" suggests at least 2 million and we have lost apprx 4000 troops that gives us a kill ratio of 500:1, bring em all we'll slaughter 'em. Hoo-rah!

Answer 2

As others have noted, while too many Iraqi civilians and coalition troops have died, the figure is not millions. The true cost of the war in dollars is http://nationalpriorities.org/index.php?option=com_content&Itemid=207&id=319&task=view which is not very nice when you think about it.

The war has got rid of a brutal dictator who killed his own people http://www.kdp.se/old/chemical.html (brtual pictures on the link) as we sold him weapons http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB82/ and has brought democracy to Iraq. Saddam was never going to be able to attack the US (or the UK) but would have been able to threaten the oil in the region. Like it or not, the war was about oil (amongst other things) and if Saddam had remained in power, the oil supply of the Middle East would have been threatened, which would have threatened our lives. If Saddam invaded other countries, he would have replaced totalitarian regimes with poor human rights records for an even worse regime with a much worse human rights record. And remember people were dying in Iraq before we invaded. When the UK joined with Bush, it was to bring about an end to suffering and to make Iraq a better place. And yes, we, so far, have made things worse, but there is hope that things can get better, which was never an option with Saddam in charge.

Going to war was not the right thing to do, it was the least worst thing to do. All the options were unpalatable. But remember this, there were few Ex-pat Iraqi's who were against the war in 2003.

Answer 3

It is hard for a bullet or bomb to separate the guilty from the innocent. The war in Iraq was a mornic mistake no doubt, but I don't see where Bush is responsible for ordering war crimes, with the very possible exception of OK'ing certain very questionable interrigation methods, and I still think that was more of Cheney's doing. In Vietnam, the war was already going on when we got there. You would have had most of those casualties either way. Thank France for that one. Oh yeah, the French seem to have forgotten about that, haven't they. Maybe we should remind them about Dien Bien Phu.

Answer 4

1) Cite the source of "millions of Iraqi civilians" I think you might be including the terrorists killled in that number
2) Why don't you actually sign up and serve in Iraq before you start spewing anti-war statements that the liberal media has brainwashed you with
3)We have/and are still providing military, economic, political, educational, and medical aid to the innocent Iraqi civilians and will continue to do so until they are safe and the terrorists are dead. We, unlike the liberals, will not simply leave with our tail between our legs and let the Iraqi people die and their government return to dictatorship.

Answer 5

At least you recognize the benefit of killing Iraqi citizens (though, really, it's not even a million yet, and there's something like 25 million left, as you can see, we'll be there a long time).

No, the price of oil about $100/barrel.

Answer 6

None except for Bush, Halliburton and perhaps Israel.Definitely not the Iraqui people. The Shias are killing the Sunnis and vice vera, while the Turks attack the Kurds in Iraq

Answer 7

Yeah, it's the price of oil. After all, we've all got plenty of it now. Or do you mean those who own oil stock are getting richer? In that case, you'd have to include such libs as Al Gore, the Clintons, Ted Kennedy and his family, and Nancy Pelosi. Or don't you believe they would do such a thing?

Apparently, you don't even watch or read most of your mainstream, liberally biased news organization information since just about all of them have reported that violence in Iraq is down after that surge you people fought against, and have interviewed Iraqis who say they are much better off than under Hussein. But you just keep harping on this same, tired "argument."

Answer 8

Millions of Iraqi citizens killed? Wrong.

Answer 9

Millions?

I don't know, but have you asked any Iraqis what they thought?

Answer 10

Millions? Where is your source for this information?
3,875 Coalition Forces killed
88,222 Iraqi Civilians