Letter to the Editor: What Has Been Gained from the War in Iraq?

By Stephen Wheeler | Published on 12.16.2011

Iraq. $4 trillion spent, 5,000 U.S. soldiers dead, estimates of more than 1 million Iraqi civilians killed, thousands of soldiers dealing with permanent physical and psychological wounds, and what has been gained in this unusual bipartisan effort?

$4 trillion spent here on our own infrastructure would have gone a long way toward hiring far more people and generated huge economic benefit.

What was our government thinking? How much longer are we going to just sit by the sidelines and let our government take us down? I just don’t get it.

Stephen Wheeler
Santa Barbara

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» AN50 on 12.19.11 @ 11:31 AM

Instead of wringing your hands over this why don’t you educate your self instead? Yes if you think the information you published in your letter gives you a headache then what you find out is actually going on will cause a brain aneurism.

It’s never as simple as the pundits tell you, either right or left. Obama learned that lesson the hard way when he was sworn in. There is more to the story than what we simpletons out here know about. I would tell you more but its classified. Just sleep well at night knowing that those who deal with the real world are willing to do so, so you don’t.

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» Rambler on 12.20.11 @ 10:11 AM

You would tell us more but it’s classified? Oh, boy.

Bishop, one hates to state the obvious, normally, but your faith in the unobvious and unsubstantiated is truly miraculous.

Obama didn’t “learn” anything except political expedience. And that’s not “classified.”

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» Rambler on 12.20.11 @ 10:14 AM

This war was an utter waste. It was fought for one purpose: to show the world that we could impose our will by force anywhere, anytime. In that, it failed. Now we can sit by nervously and wait to see what Iraq becomes.

Post-Iraq, it’s much less likely that we’ll try a stunt like that again, unless of course we elect another republican.

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» AN50 on 12.20.11 @ 11:31 AM

Wow Rambo, talk about the kettle calling the pot black.

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