Imagine if you will, had we not ever gone into Iraq. What would be different?
1.) We would never be $5 TRILLION into debt solely attributable to Iraq.
2.) We still would have gotten bin Laden.
3.) Hussein would still be their dictator and keeping Iran in check.
4.) That same debt may or may not have been used towards *preferred* uses like...infrastructure.
5.) We would not be hated in the middle east for decades to come.
6.) Exxon, Chevron, BP and all, would have had to negotiate with Hussein and we would have had to *convince* him to continue trading oil on the dollar instead of what he wanted; the euro.
7.) How many of our boys and girls would still be alive and in one piece NOT overburdening the VA hospitals.
8.) Needless to say that about one million Iraqis would still be alive.
9.) When Putin annexed Crimea, we would have had that higher ground now missing in saying No, Mr. Putin, you cannot do that.
10.) Dick Cheney would be about $40 BILLION poorer and Halliburton may have filed for bankruptcy...Just like George W.'s previous enterprises had.
2.) We still would have gotten bin Laden.
3.) Hussein would still be their dictator and keeping Iran in check.
4.) That same debt may or may not have been used towards *preferred* uses like...infrastructure.
5.) We would not be hated in the middle east for decades to come.
6.) Exxon, Chevron, BP and all, would have had to negotiate with Hussein and we would have had to *convince* him to continue trading oil on the dollar instead of what he wanted; the euro.
7.) How many of our boys and girls would still be alive and in one piece NOT overburdening the VA hospitals.
8.) Needless to say that about one million Iraqis would still be alive.
9.) When Putin annexed Crimea, we would have had that higher ground now missing in saying No, Mr. Putin, you cannot do that.
10.) Dick Cheney would be about $40 BILLION poorer and Halliburton may have filed for bankruptcy...Just like George W.'s previous enterprises had.
It's hard for a country like ours to file bankruptcy but it can become a banana republic, instead.
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