I strongly disagree. You might not believe in this war, but the fact is we're there and we're fighting. To say a soldier's life has been wasted in standing up for the freedom of others is something that is quite abhorrent. Surely you cannot say that a soldier that fought to topple Saddam has had his life 'wasted'.
Yes, I do think those lives were wasted. A service man or woman should only be asked to make the ultimate sacrifice when it is absolutely necessary. The conflict in Iraq was not necessary. Saddam was no threat to the US.
The Iraq war was undertaken to fulfill the designs of a handful of people in the administration who were determined to go to war with Iraq. Those people used the national fear and anxiety over 9/11 to take the US into Iraq. Now, most people see this manipulation for what it was.
If I could restore the lives of those American servicemen, restore the maimed and wounded, and restore the billions of wasted money and return Saddam to power I would do it in a heartbeat and I think many military families of the dean and injured would do so as well
Lost American lives in Iraq are wasted.