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* '''2006-07-23''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam]: also makes some comparisons with the [[1994 Balkan Intervention|Balkans]]
 
* '''2006-07-23''' [http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/22/AR2006072201004.html In Iraq, Military Forgot Lessons of Vietnam]: also makes some comparisons with the [[1994 Balkan Intervention|Balkans]]
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* '''2006-07-17''' [http://www.alternet.org/waroniraq/38986/ Iraq's Reconstruction a Boondoggle by Design] by Joshua Holland, AlterNet
 
* '''2005-12-01''' [http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/12/lying-about-war.html Lying about the War]: "truth became the first casualty in their campaign to whip up support."
 
* '''2005-12-01''' [http://mediacitizen.blogspot.com/2005/12/lying-about-war.html Lying about the War]: "truth became the first casualty in their campaign to whip up support."
 
* '''2003-01-21''' [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/pinter1.html One of the More Nauseating Images] by [[wikipedia:Harold Pinter|Harold Pinter]]
 
* '''2003-01-21''' [http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/pinter1.html One of the More Nauseating Images] by [[wikipedia:Harold Pinter|Harold Pinter]]

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This page is about the United States Invasion of Iraq, which took place during George W. Bush's presidential administration.

the President
he's got his war
folks don't know
just what it's for
no one gives us
rhyme or reason
you have one doubt
they call it treason
- Roberta Flack, 1969
"Compared to What"

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Effects

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Opinionated Very Brief Summary

  • Got rid of Saddam, but resulted in a very expensive quagmire and harmed global opinion of America
  • The current occupation of Iraq, with no timetable (much less a plan) for exit, is an example of an endless crisis

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 (possibly a desired goal), repeating the social effects of Vietnam (Editor's note: further enhancing Bush's existing divisiveness)
  • 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
  • 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.