[bmwcyle]

They could be a United States Constitution, Christian Nation for less money.

[AmusedBystander]

It costs a lot because America always fights the wars backwards. We destroy all of their crappy infrastructure and then feel obligated to replace it with modern state-of-the-art bridges, water and power plants, etc. while our own infrastructure goes to crap. Then we pay for a bunch of tribute to foreign dictators to be our buddies so they won't make speeches against us in the UN.

This could have been fought with military surplus munitions and then we simply rolled out as fast as we rolled in and let the survivors fight it out, We would have been no worse off and it wouldn't have cost more than a little combat pay for a couple divisions.

[Teacher317]

I doubt this number is even close to true.

[RWB Patriot]

What else could’ve been done?

A massive bombing campaign, followed by the complete destruction of Iraq’s military and government, with a very pointed message sent before we went home:

“Mess with us again, and you’ll beg us to kill you.”

The purpose in a war of self-defense is to make the person threatening you so scared of you that he will never even think about threatening you again. Maybe if we did that instead of trying to win the world’s approval, we wouldn’t be getting dragged in to endless wars and occupations.