The Iraq war

I'll start out by saying that unlike most retards out there, I have a unique position from which to comment on this engagement. My wife is active duty military and was lucky enough to get an all-expense paid trip to Bagdad in spring 2007. I also worked at the hospital in Germany where the injured troops would fly directly from the battlefield to be stabilized and then sent to Walter Reed. Every day I would see 18+ year old young men missing legs, arms, etc...So laying that ground work, let me sum up my thoughts on the Iraq war: WTF? Seriously. So we shocked and awed that shithole country because they had weapons of mass destruction (along with Syria, Iran, North Korea, and many others). OK. Whatever. We were all riding our 9/11 adrenaline highs and the mob mentality was working its way through the American public. Eventually we learned there were no weapons of mass destruction. Intelligence error or blatant deception, who gives shit? Saddam was a dickhead and now he's gone. Next argument: Oil. This is the dumbest argument out there. The oil reserves in ANWR (northern Alaska) have 2 decades worth of oil without having to destroy a country and then rely on people that have always, and will always, hate our guts. Also, I paid $4.14 cents per gallon for gas today so if the war was for oil, it was a serious fail. Now we move on to the "establishing democracy" argument. Once Washington realized that were up a creek with no paddle, they came up with this genius excuse. So this country, located near one of the oldest known human civilizations on the planet (Sumerians) has been a living shithole for thousands of years and we are going to fly in and shape it into the 51st state? Right. The people in Iraq are now daily subjected to suicide bombings, IED's, small arms fire, and Iraqi Militias. We really nailed that one. I'm buying my plain tickets to Baghdad tomorrow! Not. Another argument I heard (one that actual makes a little sense) is that we were there to establish a permanent military presence in one of the most tumultuous areas on earth. While obviously not a good reason to level a country, having large bases sitting between Iraq and Israel makes a certain amount of strategical sense. Well, did we manage to even pull that off? Nope. The Obama administration couldn't manage to negotiate a permanent US presence in Iraq. Iraq was like....yeeeeaaahh...thanks...really...but get the fuck out. So I am seriously trying to understand what the hell the point of all this was? Can someone please post something that doesn't make my brain hurt?