Why does the USA spend TRILLIONS trying to change a country (Iraq) that will sooner or later turn on us?

Question

Just like China did ...just like Libia did.....just like Iran did....just like Argentina did and on and on.
No matter what we do....they will eventually be like Iran. Care to Bet?

An oilman told me there is enough oil in Texas alone to last the next 500 years...but are held back from tapping it.
Try to get a permit to drill...won't happen!

Yes ...TRILLIONS ...according to Fox News, it's now 2.5 Trillion.

Answer 1

No bet, and I wish I could understand the rationale behind the conservative position that hundreds of billions of dollars for Iraqis who hate us is NOT a handout and NOT welfare, but tens of millions of dollars to deserving, needy Americans who DON'T hate the US IS.

Could it be because to continue to supply the US with leaders who can legitimately say they've served this country in its military with honor, we have to continue having wars for them to brag about in later years? Not really sur eif THAT'S the case, since, seven years ago, Republicans embraced a man who wouldn't fight for his country if a gun was pointed at his head.

I can only come to the inescapable conclusion that those who call themselves conservative are completely insane, but do not realize it.
Just today, that paradigm of intellect and rational thought, Rush Limbaugh, actually tried to convince his sheep that CO2 is not a poison, since we produce it naturally (the conclusion to be reached by this statement is that arsenic produced as a by-product of strip mining copper is natural and so ALSO not poisonous. I would suggest Mr Limbaugh take a shot at living in a CO2 enriched environment (although he may actually flourish in such an state, as his brain has been oxygen starved for at LEAST a couple decades at this point.)

Answer 2

We spend trillions, and we will remain in Iraq. With permanent bases, and the biggest American Embassy we have ever built is almost finished as we speak. Why? Mostly because we needed a foothold in the Middle East and Iraq was the most likely country that we could break down and establish that foothold. It's all about controlling Iran in the end. Oil is a large part of it, but it's more than just oil.

Answer 3

We're not spending trillions (yet), but the act makes us a generous country.

Just think, for every dollar we spend, there's a brain-dead liberal somewhere saying that our foreign policy in the Middle East is creating terrorists.

It's as if they think Bush has a Jiffy Bake Oven popping them out, or something. They don't really make a logical argument, they just put out all the slander out that they can think of and see what sticks.

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You should never argue numbers with an accountant.

The trillions of dollars you're quoting sounds like the entire defense budget for the last 6 years. How can that be true if we spend $2 to $2.5 trillion each year on our entire budget, and about 10% of that is the defense budget?

Now if you want to know how much of that is exclusively for the war, you have to start subtracting out all of our expenditures for hundreds of bases and facilities all over the world, the regular salaries and contracts of defense contractors which you'll find on every base, and subtract out the routine repairs and maintenance of the equipment we're not using, such as the USS Enterprise (the 18th century version) on display in Boston Harbor for tourists.

You also need to take away the difference between what we pay for service members to be in Iraq and what we would have paid them if we were still maintaining the blockade in the Persian Gulf, as we were through the 90's and up to 2003, money we would have paid anyway.

You'll be left with a price tag of some tens of billions spent exclusively on the decision to go to war, and it will amount mostly to the activation of reservists and the replacement of damaged equipment.

Answer 4

In America, because the presidency changes every four or eight years, we believe that the issues facing our country do as well. This is not true. As long as we are dependant on foreign interest to supply our energy demands, we as a nation have an interest in protecting the oil fields and using our influence to manipulate the cost of crude. Gulf War I was about protecting the Saudi oil fields (largest oil reserve in the world) . Iraq is about protecting and stabilizing production and costs from the Iraqi oil fields (2nd largest oil reserve in the world). No politician wants to say this because it is political suicide to say "we are going to sacrifice American lives to preserve our energy interests". But this is what exactly is going on.

Answer 5

Vet my boy you have hit the nail square across the head!!!

At some point the Iraqis will have finished thier ethnic cleasing of neighborhoods and so long as they stick to thier own part of town the killings will subside. At that point they willl finally wake and see that we, EXXON-MOBIL, BP, Conoco-Philips are ripping them off and will kick us out of thier country just like everyone else has i.e. Saudi Arabia, Venezuela, Mexico, IRAN....

At that point those poor misguided souls who lost thier lives for "Iraqi freedom" will finally have the truth hit them like a "Cold Slap in the Face" they died IN VAIN !!!

Answer 6

To look for weapons of mass destruction obviously. And also because everyone knew the Sadaam and Osama were big buds. Plus Iraq was threatening our freedom....heck he was planning on invading us and turning us all to Muslims.

Answer 7

Nothing that Dictator Dumbya EVER did made sense in terms of the broad interest of the American people. But he doesn't care about that since he was NEVER elected.

Answer 8

Because Bush is too stubborn and not intelligent enough to think up a better strategy for ending this quagmire he got us into. He think that by spending our money non stop into an endless war until he leaves, that people will think he's a true leader.

Answer 9

Because certain administrations never learn from history and thus are doomed to repeat it. If it makes a quick buck they don't care about the long term ramifications and as long as they keep saying the right things to their supporters no one will question it.

Answer 10

Yes.
And like Japan and Germany turned on us.
Ooooops.
You may be full of it.

I forget.... When was the US- Argentina War?
When did we take over China & Lybia??

Jimmy Carter destroyed the Shah of Iran.
That's what happened there.