Then on the way to Afghanistan 248,000 soldiers took a wrong turn in Albuquerque and got lost in Iraq for 8 years, 8 months, 3 weeks and 4 days resulting in 4,488 dead Americans.
Brown University’s Eisenhower Research Project researchers put the price tag of both crusades in the Islamic World at at roughly $4 trillion.
The saddest part? Osama was nowhere near Afghanistan when the invasion began and Saddam Hussein had absolutely ZERO connection to the attacks of September 11, 2001 and he had no Weapons of Mass Destruction.
To sum it all up:
Two Wars
6,801 dead U.S. Forces
57,614 wounded U.S. Forces
$4,000,000,000,000
And you are basically back to where you started, well... to be brutally honest, you are worse off than you were before the George Walker Bush crusades into the Islamic world. And now recent polls show the majority of you ready for another war in the Islamic world. Poll: Most back ground troops in ISIS fight and Almost Two Thirds of Voters Want Ground Troops Fighting ISIS, Poll Says
What is that? Kuwait, Afghanistan, Iraq now Syria or Iraq AGAIN or if Lindsey Graham and the current crop of GOP leadership get there way, Iran. Non stop war for an entire generation of American youth.
As of today, July 22, 2015 it has been 4,467 days since George Walker Bush strapped on that codpiece and declared "Mission Accomplished" and we are still waiting for those "sweets and flowers" that Richard Bruce Cheney promised us we would be greeted with.
I hate to be the one to break it to the warmongers. But in March 2003 Iraq was Poland the USA was Germany and Shock and Awe was nothing more than modern Blitzkrieg.
America was not the good guys in that war.
