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First of all, do not question my commitment to serving my country & its best long term interests. I signed up to do what I thought was serving this country when today's Chicken Hawks were flying to Canada & for deferments & ended up in that fetid hell hole in S.E. Asia stuffing rubber sacks with US body parts when not on S&D Ops.
Today, I see the REAL cost of the Iraq War at our understaffed & underfunded V.A. Hospital in the form of mutilated, burned & traumatized young American amputees.
Were you among the "We" who "gave these people the opportunity to be free"?
It seems like you're making a lot of rose-colored assumptions in that there have been fewer deaths & less misery by removing Saddam and leaving a vacuum for deadlier elements to fill. Much of what was said about Saddam turned out to be pro War propaganda. You can be sure that the US governments decision to remove Saddam was not based on any fondness for the Iraqi people or "Freedom & Democracy"
Among the primary motivations are best articulated by these Jewish authors:
“JEWISH WRITERS CLAIM POWERFUL ZIONISTS DROVE USA INTO MID-EAST WAR FOR SAKE OF ISRAEL”
http://www.usa-exile.org/news/0304/13/zionistwar.html
http://www.theweeklyinformant.com/arishavit.htm
And:
“Quietly lobbying Congress to approve the use of force in Iraq was one of AIPAC’s successes over the past year”
AIPAC Executive Director Howard Kohr; N.Y. Sun; Jan. ’03
I've got friends & family on active duty in the Region & some who work in the Pentagon. None of them think that Iraq was a threat to the US, the Iraq War was a good idea or in America's best interests
I agree that a greater effort needs to go into stopping ISIS. So far, only Iran, Syria & Hezbollah have been doing the "heavy lifting". Who in the region is ISIS NOT attacking, whoever is attacking Syria is aiding ISIS. ISIS is wealthier than some small countries.
Cutting the aid to ISIS is a next step but you'd be surprised who is aiding ISIS so remember the maxim "The enemy of my enemy is my friend". Who else is hostile to Syria, Hezbollah & Iran?
You won't believe me so Google "Countries aiding ISIS" & see for yourself.
Please let me know what you find out.
Thanks