Is The War In Iraq Worth Fighting?

[john]

Originally posted by 1QUICK4@Oct 10 2004, 12:08 AM
What would you call these people who are blowingup children, civilians, and our troops in Iraq?

I would say that they are trying to defend their country like the rest of us would hopefully do if we were invaded.

Same situation when Clinton knew about Afghanistan, but this time we did something about. 

Clinton was not in office when we were attacked and IMO could not have for seen the events that would take place a year and a half later.

Personally, I do not think that we should be in Iraq. The only thing I think we have gained is that we captured Saddam. The bad things I can think of now:

-We went to war for WMD and there are none to be found. The inspectors couldn't
find any and we couldn't find any. Bush and company convinced everyone that
Iraq had them, scaring the public with the outdated chemicals that they found.
(Eric, I believe the CIA finally released the statement that Iraq did not have
WMD. I will read into it furthur when I get some more time. It was on the news
when I was walking out the door the other day.)
-It has cost the US roughly $130,000,000,000.00 to capture Saddam. Costs are
suppsoed to exceed $200 billion by the end of next year. I believe that this
money could have been used elsewhere like heath care, the economy, and more
domestic problems we have here.
-It has cost us over 1000 american lives to capture him
-It has cost well over 10,000 Iraqi civillians. I see on average a range from
12,000-15000 depending on where you look.
-We pretty much went to war on our own, without enough allies. We didn't wait for
NATO to back us, we just bombed them at 3 in the morning Iraqi time. The slogan
was that war is inevitable. He was set on attacking no matter what anyone
thought.

That is all I can think of now. From my stand point right now, the consequences of going far outweigh the benefits of going. I would like to believe the war is a just cause but I cannot right now. Other than capturing Saddam, what else did we gain? Why did the US have to take action versus any country in the world?