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Originally posted by Greedy,Greedy,Greedy
Iraq is an attempt to coopt the war on terrorism for neo-conservative geopolitical goals, and in many ways an abandonment of higher priorities in the war on terror. That is why our allies didn't support us.
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Had we spent the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on Iraq to find and kill Bin Laden et al, I can confidently speculate that we would have been successful. Even if the war on Iraq is semi-justified, which it may be (but definitely not re: the war on terror), that doesn't mean that it should have been a priority. It shouldn't even have been on the priority top-ten list.
Go after Al Queda. Don't quit until successful. Spend everything you have to capture Bin Laden. THEN, and only then, should Iraq have been addressed.
It's the diversion of money/resources that pisses me off. The fact that, had we not gone into Iraq, we could have Bin Laden by now.
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