Getbig.com: American Bodybuilding, Fitness and Figure

Getbig Main Boards => Politics and Political Issues Board => Topic started by: 240 is Back on August 20, 2010, 11:44:09 PM

Title: In U.S., Majority Says Iraq War Will Be Judged a Failure
Post by: 240 is Back on August 20, 2010, 11:44:09 PM
how do YOU judge the iraq war - a success or failure?  And can you clarify how you reached this conclusion?  Remember the initial belief was that it would take only a few months, with minimal cost and casualties, we'd be greeted as liberators, and their oil would pay for it all.  Seven years later, we still have 60k troops and 190k independent contractors there, it's approaching $2 trillion cost, 4000+ dead, 20000+ injured/maimed.  if it's a success, it sure isn't by any measurement Bush and friends promised in 2003.



In U.S., Slim Majority Says Iraq War Will Be Judged a Failure  
 Source: Gallup

PRINCETON, NJ -- More Americans believe history will judge the Iraq war as a failure (53%) rather than a success (42%). These views have varied little over the past few years even as Americans have become more positive in their assessments of how the war is going.

2006-2010 Trend: How Will Iraq War Be Judged -- as a Total Success, Mostly Successful, Mostly a Failure, or a Total Failure for the United States?

(http://sas-origin.onstreammedia.com/origin/gallupinc/GallupSpaces/Production/Cms/POLL/xniawtk7vein5d75ouw8fa.gif)
Title: Re: In U.S., Majority Says Iraq War Will Be Judged a Failure
Post by: Dos Equis on August 21, 2010, 11:53:31 AM
We went in to disarm and remove Saddam.  Done and done.