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?
