Study: Iraq War Costs U.S More Than $2 Trillion

[HudsonGator]

Originally Posted by Wormwood56

You're not even within a light year of what actually transpired. FDR "probably thought?" He and his administration did everything in their power to get into the war. Rainbow Five was not a simple "contingency plan." Much of it was being implemented BEFORE Pearl Harbor.

I teach military history at the graduate school level. Try reading some. There are many great books that have been written since the collapse of the USSR, and the opening of their files, as well as the de-classification of our own files after 1995.

And no, I do not have an agenda. What I wrote are FACTS.

Sounds like more Right-Wing conspiracy nonsense.

I'm sure you'll also tell me that FDR knew in advance that the IJN was going to attack Pearl Harbor on December 7th, but sat on the information in order to make sure the U.S. was "all in" on joining the war.

This kind of conspiracy theory junk has been around since 1945.

Just because you say something is a fact, doesn't make it one.

[Gatorrick22]

Originally Posted by Lawdog88

Did that cost tabulation include the pallets of Benjamins offloaded from C-5's at the Baghdad Airport, and spirited away to the Iraqi treasury, never to be seen or heard from again ?

Gosh, I really wonder what happened to all of that stuff. Surely a good result was achieved with it.

Do you really think that we just gave them ALL that money when the ones in-charge didn't really have too?

Someone's got bails of cash stashed somewhere.

[CHFG8R]

Originally Posted by rivergator

very old stuff that was not usable anymore. that hasn't stopped folks like Hannity from claiming that we found what we went to war over. You've got Oliver North still saying Saddam had them but they were move to Sudan. Others on Fox claim they were moved to Syria ...
Anything but admit that primary reason to go to war turned out to be false.

Except that it really wasn't the primary reason. It was the cover. The primary reason was the Quixotic belief that we would be able to cultivate and establish a solid ally, who would allow us to put bases on their territory and serve as a solid jumping off point should anything else potentially affect the flow of oil. Also the equally Quixotic notion that it would serve as a grass plug, if you will, for the spread of Democracy in the region.

Democracy among Theocrats. How utterly laughable!