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Quote by: barts  Just wondering. As things seem to be winding down, with some hints that troops will be--well, maybe--coming home, I'm left wondering if the United States' Coalition of the (few) Willing won the Iraq war?
Over at Fabius Maximus, the blogger is asking If we won in Iraq, what did we win? Was it worth the cost? Good question.
My answer is that nothing was won, and the cost of winning nothing is measured in hundreds of thousands dead, many more horrifically wounded, millions of refugees, and billions perhaps trillions of dollars wasted.
Is the world a safer place with Saddam gone? No!
Given what you know now about the war in Iraq, if you could, would you spare the lives lost, avoid the wounds, and take your money back? I would.
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First of all of course you didn't win as there was no real enemy, it was a fake war made for MONEY, but not primarily for that, the main reason was for more military power in the region for the USA and it's allies. Though of course had there really been an enemy that the USA wanted to get rid of they'd have been gone within months.
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Is the world a safer place with Saddam gone? No!
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No, but it certainly would be with Obama, McCain, Gordon Brown and the ones manipulating those gone.
But it's stupid to think that the war will end soon, I think it will stay at least another few years.