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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think, after America was SAVAGELY and PITILESSLY ATTACKED on 9/11, we made some hard choices.  Based on what we knew at the time and Saddams cagey behavior and refusal to abide by agreements of HIS DEFEAT which led us to strongly suspect WMDs and our continued vulnerability, we attacked. Saddam now appears almost quaint in his role of 'brutal dictator', and we now know his cagey behavior was due to fear that Iran would see him as weak, and I agree -- we needed far better analysis from our CIA.  We were let down a lot by our intelligence gathering at that time period, which I would guess was a systems thing-not due to lacking capable men and women doing the hard work.  Many of us hoped that Iraqis would rise up as say, Eastern Europe did when freed from the Russian boot, dance in the street and carry on.  We were naïve, and learned that Saddam was holding together with his iron fist groups of people who basically hated each other.  Still, the Kurds are DEFINITELY better off and quite good role models. and we were making political process with the rest of the country.  Then our President jumped at the opportunity to up and leave with nothing to support a continued transformation to greater stability and progress as a healthy nation.  Simultaneously, we did not support moderate resistance to Assad.  ISIS filed the vacuum in both countries.  [b]No, I do not feel badly for what we did in Iraq overall given that we did not have the benefit of 50/50 hindsight.  [/b]Given what has transpired since, I feel badly for what we DIDN'T do to support the country as the facts on the ground evolved.[/quote]

I think this is one of the more reasonable responses, given the mob of nutjobs that have descend on this thread.  Having said that I find it very disturbing that the main issue of this thread is dealt with so coldly.

Mainly it's that there is no empathy for the hundreds of thousands and perhaps over a million Iraqis killed, even while saying that the war was a mistake.  This capacity to dismiss that many Iraqi deaths while the popular media is in an uproar about every US individual individual casualty in this ongoing conflict is the cognitive dissonance that the poster in the first page refers to.

We care so much about our own, but dismiss those who aren't our own no matter how high the bodies pile up.  Even when we had a direct hand in that pile of bodies.[/quote]

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