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Originally Posted by RougeUnderoos
That depends on what the tab is, I guess.
If the Americans spends 10 years a couple trillion dollars, ~5000 soldiers, damage their own economy and alienates or downright pisses-off much of the world to get a "stable ally", I don't know think I'd call it a success. Maybe a Pyrrhic victory, but not a success.
Tell me, if you knew then what you knew now (WMDs, deaths, chaos, cost, et cetera) would you have backed the war? If you knew it was going to turn out like it has, would you still have thought it was a good idea?
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I didn't base my support on WMDs. I based it on getting rid of the most odorous regime on the planet.
After knowing that the US threw away the Powell doctrine to follow war on the cheap and all their bubbling and stumbling afterwards...I haven't changed my mind. The alternative was much worse and would have cost more lives in the long run.