Soldiers made the decision to join the military, and it's their duty to serve, no matter how bad the quagmire. In a perfect world, we would have no military conflict, and everyone would share resources. Now back to reality. Every country is vying for resources. Since you come across as the college-educated, every war you studied involved the posturing for strategic resources. Every war had a propagated reason to go in, ideology is used to garner support. Rarely is it the legitmate reason for conflict. It's to protect interests, which is land, resources, and capital. Is it wrong to use conflict to allocate resources for it's citizens? Morally, yes. If you look it from a macro-view, our economy is partly based on posturizing, and exploitating resources. The land you live in is prosperous thanks partly to the government protecting our interests.

As far as everyone is concerned, WMDs are unaccounted for. At one time Saddam's regime possessed them. What happened since then, whether the regime or another entity disposed of them, sold them on the black market, hidden in the ground is inconclusive. It's not an outright lie. We'll never know because Bush couldn't wait for inspections to finish.

America was sold on the concept that Iraq was an imminent threat because of the potential threat of WMDs. They used a lot of hyperbole in terms of their evidence, but was it all a lie? No.

The American public was still rattled by 9/11 and believed all the propaganda passed around. At the time, I didn't think it was worth it to even go into Afghanstan, let alone Iraq. Bush's steered the ship in a new direction, and would be irresponsible to not clean up the mess he created.
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