US-Iraq/war/invasion

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This page is about the United States Invasion of Iraq, which took place during George W. Bush's second term in office.

News Articles

Reports

Opinionated Very Brief Summary

  • got rid of Saddam, but resulted in a very expensive quagmire and harmed global opinion of America

Other Opinions

David Brin

From http://www.davidbrin.com/neocons.html :

  • Over a thousand Americans lost, with more dying almost daily and no end in sight.
  • Uncounted (and secret) numbers of Iraqi civilian deaths.
  • Scandals; poorly supervised thugs ruining our reputation for decent behavior.
  • A Western Alliance in shambles.
  • Relentless lies; intervention justified by fabricated evidence reminiscent of Tonkin Gulf.
  • Plummeting readiness levels -- our military is being used-up.
  • Utterly divisive of American public, repeating the social effects of Vietnam.
  • Clever incarceration tricks overused as bludgeons, wrecking credibility and undermining due process.
  • Incompetent preparation and handling of the aftermath, featuring rapid deterioration of political, economic and social life in Iraq (see sidebar on "Maps, Anyone?").
  • Worldwide acceptance of US moral leadership plummeting.
  • And the fundamental strategic outcome — provoking a radicalized Islam, further stirred by Saudi-funded Al Jazeera Network and Saudi-funded religious schools, from Morocco to Mindanao, threatening a pan-Islamic coalescence into Jihad mentality for the first time in a thousand years.