10 years in Iraq: too much money for too few results

[gabosaurus]

Even more proof that the Bush War was a failure.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/money-spent-iraq-results-18663079

[fj1200]

Even more proof that the Bush War was a failure.

Ten years and $60 billion in American taxpayer funds later, Iraq is still so unstable and broken that even its leaders question whether U.S. efforts to rebuild the war-torn nation were worth the cost.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/money-spent-iraq-results-18663079

$60 billion over 10 years? By that measure can we declare Medicare a failure too?

Medicare Fraud: A $60 Billion Crime - CBS News (http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-5414390.html)

[jimnyc]

Even more proof that the Bush War was a failure.

http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory/money-spent-iraq-results-18663079

Where are your threads about the wasted money by Obama in Syria? Libya? Afghanistan? And his lies about how long before he removed troops from Iraq?

I doubt your concern, as if you were truly worried about "results and wasted money", you would also be speaking out about $6 trillion in less than a term, more than every president in history combined.

[Kathianne]

Iraq was stabilizing, more quickly than predicted. Obama chose to withdraw those that were helping with that, now he wishes to blame Bush?

Watching the media play the arm of the President:

http://pjmedia.com/rogerlsimon/2013/03/06/obama-and-one-party-rule/


Obama and One-Party Rule

Posted By Roger L Simon On March 6, 2013


Is Barack Obama’s goal the creation of a one-party system? They’re certainly popular these days. The Chinese are doing pretty well with one.


And Barack seems to be a one-party kind of guy. He prefers like-minded folks like Turkey’s Erdogan.
And ever since his reelection, he’s devoted almost all his time to one-party efforts, doing his best to excoriate the other side. In fact, that’s about all he does.


And he does it with an animus I have not experienced in my lifetime, as if he wanted to exterminate the opposition and stomp it into oblivion.


When he saw fit to reassure us he was not a dictator, many of us thought he really wanted to be. Otherwise, why bring it up?


Democracy is, well, you know, messy. You have to deal with others, to reason and compromise. And, as Sartre famously reminded us, “Hell is other people.”


For Barack that seems most especially so. Dealing with others is a dreadful inconvenience. After all, he knows best.


So he and his followers are doing their best, preparing the way for this one-party rule, making as many people as possible dependent on government.


According to a video I just viewed from a site with the colorful title www.governmentgonewild.org (http://www.governmentgonewild.org/) [1], private-sector jobs in our country grew only 1% in the last decade while government jobs grew 15%.

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[darin]

And to think, every contractor serving their made their first 90k salary free from federal tax!