And, I'd like to see some documentation on the "million Iraqi casualties".
From a military who "doesn't do casualty estimates"?
Good luck.
1.2 million dead Iraqis is the current estimate.
5 million refugees inside and outside the country.
Saddam killed 300,000 of his own people while supported by the US fer 30 years.
America quadrupled that number in 5 years.
USA USA USA!/snark>
America has the same right to be in Iraq that Hitler had to be in Paris.
None wotsoever.
Ya want oil?
Try getting it the old fashioned way.
BUY IT.
Iraqi nationals have more of a right to try and kill American soldiers than vice versa.
Sad fact but there you go.
Might don't make right.
The only thing that makes right is right.
Wot do imagine Bush's intentions were, btw?
Don't you know yet that the gameplan was to stay and occupy the place as long as possible in order to build a pipeline to Israel?
That's why people were fired who brought up exit strategies.
This incompetence was planned from the get-go.
A page taken from the Israeli playbook in Palestine.
They've managed to keep that immoral and illegal occupation going fer decades now.
Using tactics the Nazis themselves wouldn't have difficulties recognizing.
Torture, terror, ghettoization, a slow stranglehold that chokes off life and hope.
See also Baghdad, the Prison City.
The surge was not a success.
The only thing America has won in Iraq is the enmity of the entire world.
A bed made.
Lie in it.
Be Well.