Comments on: Iraq: Ten Years Ago Today http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/iraq-ten-years-ago-today/ Defending Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness Mon, 20 May 2013 07:22:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Lon Mead http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/iraq-ten-years-ago-today/#comment-17098 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 07:36:36 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=32442#comment-17098 I trust, Mark, that what you were saying was purest sarcasm. You very likely missed the part at the end of the post where it was pointed out that Obama’s stimulus ALONE cost more than the war in Iraq, and we’ve spent slightly more than half that in Afghanistan.

And your comments on American exceptonalism simply show you know nothing of what those words mean.

]]> By: Mark Baird http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/2013/03/19/iraq-ten-years-ago-today/#comment-17093 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 04:36:18 +0000 http://americanelephant.wordpress.com/?p=32442#comment-17093 All that money could have been used better else where. The war was such a waste and based on a sales job. We should have focused on Afghanistan and spent the 2.2 trillion we spent in Iraq in Afghanistan.

The Saudi’s spend far fewer dollars funding radical schools in East Pakistan. That money is used to pay poor farmers to educate their young boys so that the farmer can feed his family.

And, what do we do? Spend trillions going after terrorist and occasionally killing innocent farmers, in Afghanistan and East Pakistan. I would say the Saudi’s are spending their money much more wisely. But, then again, war feels better.

The problem with us Americans is that we have it so good we have a hard time getting into the heads of people that live in these countries. We are too arrogant with our American exceptionalism. Arrogant pride will always come crashing down hard.

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