Nobody ever said war is cheap.  Where were you liberals when Franklin D. Roosevelt was waging an unjust war against the peaceful Nazis in Europe?  That little war cost Billions of Dollars, too.  And they didn't even attack us, the Japanese did.  But then again, if you guys were around during WWII, I'm sure you would have been against war with Japan, too.  On the grounds that they only attacked one of our TERRITORIES, and all.[/size]

First, I was not born yet, and neither were the vast majority of people on this forum. Second, any comparison with WWII and the modern day War against Islamic fundamentalism is idiotic. Third, WWII was a war with defined nation states not dispersed terrorist cells. Finally, WWII expanded the U.S. economy and helped propel it to superpower status, whereas the War in Iraq has expanded the bank accounts of corporate crooks and flushed our respected world standing down the shit tubes, at the same time bankrupting the American tax payer for multiple generations to come.

I don't believe Bush was planning on attacking Iraq, but he could'nt find Osama so he had to move on. Who better than the same man who who his father hates? Saddam. I agree sixhits, we should be going after terrorists and not Iraqi nationalists. I liked the law that was brought to the congress a long while back . . . everybody who votes in favor of war is sent to war, they can fight the war in which they want to be fought. waste of money.

Wtf that is a lot of money that keeps piling up. Like $1000 every 1/2 seconds. Wow.

EDIT: This really pops my eye out:

"Instead, we could have fully funded global  anti-hunger efforts for 4 years."

We all know it's a waste of money, but the administration never will give a damn. Wait and see what happens after the power hand-over. I have a feeling there are still a few bad guys hanging around.

Oooohhh, Ooooohhh
I wanna nitpick too...

GS,
I've mentioned this before, but you i guess you didn't get it. GERMANY DECLARED WAR ON THE US AFTER PEARL HARBOR!!! That's why the US entered WW2 in Europe and that's why we fought Hitler.

Ace,
I woul'dnt say Saddam's regime was teh most secular in the middle east, especially in its latter incarnation. Saddam was actively courting the religious establishment in order to give himself an air of legitimacy, building mosques in his name and stuff. Syria is much more militantly secular, as was Turkey before the last elections, than Saddam was before the invasion.

The money spent sofar on Iraq could have been used for a lot of great things. Most of all, it could have been used to quickly get the Iraqi petrolium industry running effeciently and modernized and allowing the Interim government to use the revenue to rebuild the country, rather than stuffing the pockets of Halliburton management. It could have been spent on building fair and representative institutions immediatly after Saddam's overthrow and allowing all Iraqis to participate, instead of having Capt. Kangaroo run the country for a couple of months and then hand it over to a state department bureaucrat, who knows nothing about Iraq. Maybe if we had spent all that money on that kinda stuff instead, the whole thing would be a lot cheaper because the rest of the world wouldnt think we are morons and be more willing to help out.

Yah, when someone doesn't get my jokes, I blame them. 'Cause I'm super-witty...

:-P

Bahhahahahahahaa....
And i've got a PhD in Go Fuck Yourself, dickhead!
Your sacrcasm was duly noted (haha), but you've made those remarks in a non-sacrastic way in the past, so I think you do believe America declared war on Germany, not the other way around.
Peace sucker...

After  911 and Afghanistan, Bush plainly wanted to head Islamic Fundamentalism off at the pass.  Since, as noted, Islamic Fundamentalism is not a nation it is difficult to attack directly.  It seems to me that Bush's goal in attacking Iraq was simply to destablize the Islamic world by driving a wedge, politically and geographically, into the heart of the region.  Wiping out his father's nemisis was a bonus.

The cost of this war may be less than the cost of continued Fundamentalist growth and future actions required.  It is probably hard to justify the $ and human life costs of any war.

While I do not support this war, I do see a kind of (warped) logic to it.