ABSOLUTELY

And the fact nobody was ever held accountable for this shitty decision.

USA has the highest expense on defense in the world, by far (so far from the second) so I'm guessing the thoughts are: "why increasing expense on healthcare or education, when we can keep invading countries?"...

But what about all those military contractors who made billions out of text-payers money?

They got the oil... That was the idea from the beginning...

Oil ... no?

And, of course, our dickhead PM thought it was a good idea and went along with it!

It's also exactly what Al Qaeda wanted to happen. Their aim with 9/11 was to start an all out war with the West - invading Afghanistan wasn't enough to ignite that, but invading Iraq did it. It's exactly what they wanted.

I remember seeing a news report where everyday Iraqis were in the street begging for the US not to bomb them. Broke my heart.

If someone throws their shoes at you, you're doing something wrong.

I'm sure arms manufacturers and suppliers/contractors for the US army loved the decision...

How about the decision to topple Syria? Twenty times more dead, and 8 million refugees, but we fought the war through proxies, and a Democrat was president, so the news media never questions it.

YES!

WE WANTED/NEEDED THE OIL. That's it. That's all there was to it. The rest were lies.

Agree..

And still US soldiers who were in Iraq feel like heroes ...

The Neo-Cons wanted to make Iraq play ball, and buy and sell how they wanted it done. Of course it was about the oil.

Al-qaeda was based in afghanistan not iraq, all the points are correct just wanted to remind you all of that fact.

We still needed to go to Afghanistan. Other countries didn't think so

Just after Saddam Hussein said he wanted to sell oil in Euros and not Dollars....

ISIS already existed. Just under a different name. Those who think otherwise are sadly deluded.

Bush had a real reason for it though. He and his friends needed access to the oil so they could have more money and further secure their place in hell.

I still remember the puzzled confusion emanating from US citizens when they slowly realized that this war was about oil, not fighting terrorism or even revenge. And every Europena was like: 'Doh!'

Is this because of 9/11 respect all police officer’s who sacrificed themselves

Destabilized the Middle East for generations, created Daesch, PTSD related suicides, and the world wide view of the USA has darkened since.

i guess the people in the towers meant nothing to anyone BECAUSE YOU DIDNT KNOW THEM OR THE FEAR THEY FELT BEFORE THEIR DEATH DIDNT AFFECT YOU. while the brave men and women where storming the buildings to help the INNOCENT, people in the middle east were celebrating as if their muslim god came back.

“But they tried to kill my daddy!”

I agree ..the history of USA forcing themselves into other countries wars is abysmal?No credits for the brave who returned so wounded in many aspects for life then dumped by the same people who sent them to war The needless deaths.

Let's not mention ISIS did not exist under Bush's term.

It was completely successful at it's single purpose. Getting Bush reelected.

Oh there was cause--it was to ensure that all that precious, precious oil didn't get withheld from the US. Even as a teenager you could smell the bullshit of his "reasons" for invading Iraq.

Leaving it all as s**t was the worst. So many people were actually happy to have the power shift. But then we royally f'd those people and left them in shambles. Cities no longer had water, electricity, schools were not open. We just left it and never helped. We said no one that worked for the regime shall hold their job. Problem is, when their is a dictatorship everyone works for the regime! And we just left them in a post apocalyptic nightmare. Truely horrid, vial and discussing.

Ohhhh yes - and the country is still paying for that bonehead decision.

Since WW2, no "war " has really been for anything other than rich people getting richer.

Plus he was WARNED that most of what has happened would happen...

Very bad decision, not involuntary at all though. Some people actually found enormous benefits in it, whatever the consequences for millions of others. See Naomi Klein's works and this excellent movie by Adam McKay about D**k Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vice_(2018_film)

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This is why we can't have nice things

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Actually, Sadam was amassing Yellowcake Uranium, Only one use for that, Funding Terrorism, and had invaded another country. You're supposed to Like Bush and Hate Trump now, or didn't you get the Memo?

Actually what created ISIS was Obama's Nuclear Deal

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So now people are waking up to these so called Conspiracy theorists instead of labeling them nut jobs.