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.

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.