SparrowHawk
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You are all forgetting the main purpose for the war which made it a resounding success...Halliburton and it's subsidiaries (V-P Cheney's company) made $BILLIONS off the war as no-bid contractors on any number of "jobs"--like building shower facilities for soldiers with faulty wiring that resulted in soldiers being electrocuted.
Oh, and I hope you are all following current events in Iraq. Iraq, which was a cobbled together country created by Great Britain, is on the verge of falling apart into the separate tribal/religious warring areas--Sunni, Shiite, and Kurds--which existed for centuries before the British Mandate. I think we will see a Middle Eastern version of the fate of Yugoslavia before the end of 2012. As Delldude said...get back to me in 12 months.
I did a little research regarding the growth of Halliburton during the war and it just isn't accurate that Halliburton made undue Billions.
Over the ten years in question, Net Profit was never higher than 2 billion for the entire company. Most times it was in the 1.5 Billion range annually. So over ten years we are looking at 17 Billion in profits for the entirety of Halliburton. The Iraq operation was a fraction of the total and a relatively modest percentage. The Progressives found a bogeyman and exploited it. No surprise.
Equally no surprise that Iraq is already spiraling into tribalism. Actually prior to the British Empire drawing the lines in the ME, Kuwait WAS part of Iraq just as Saddam Hussein said it was.
The current situation in the Middle East is the result of two Western Nations (US & UK) engaging in interventionist, empire building and seeking to maintain that empire. Iraq is a sovereign nation or not depending upon the will of the people. We should be working hard to sell them stuff, not kill them.
No, the culprit here is the interventionist Foreign Policies of the United States and the subsequent blow back that occurs as a result.