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Originally Posted by Bryan G
Please tell us the point of both the iraq and Afghanistan wars?
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Easy answer. Afghanistan because at the time the Al-Qaeda had their HQ there along with a major training camp...in addition Al Qaeda had recently attacked the CONUS. The Iraq invasion was to overthrow Sadam and remove the BATH government.
In the case of Iraq the invasion should have taken place within the first year of the '91 conflict with Iraq because of all of the cease fire agreements he made and then broke and continued to break for the next ten years or so...in my considered opinion.
I approved of both invasions and did not approve of the way either one was fought and the length of time we have spent fucking around and are continuing to fuck around. We should not have spent anymore than six months in either conflict. When President Bush flew out to the carrier that had the banner "Mission Accomplished" the Iraq conflict was over at that point in time. Sadam had been overthrown...the military had been defeated...and the Bath government had been removed from power...all in the first 24 days. We should have removed our forces at that point in time...but instead it was decided to nation build.
BTW...I had predicted that it would take only ten days so I was off by 14 days...but than again there was a major dust storm that slowed down our supply and support troops so our combatants in the spear head of the attack had to delay for a few days and I did not allow for that in my prediction.