Pole; Iraq War Not Worth It

After glancing at the title of an article on MSNBC I hesitated before continuing to the article. I had to do a double take of the date it was posted. It was posted May 4, 2005 by Reuters @ 7:27am ET.

“Poll: Most Americans Say Iraq War Not Worth It”

This article seemed a little dated due to changes in Iraq…Democratic Elections, Parliament, steady hand-over of security from US troops to trained Iraqi forces. The article reminded me of negative portrayals (correct or incorrect) of the war in 2003 and 2004. The article had a picture of a US soldier protecting a recent car bomb site. MSNBC seems to be preaching more doom and gloom. The poll question(s) were not included in the article therefore I question their wording and intention. But I will comment on the possibility more Americans actually feel this war was not worth it.Here is a scenario where I would agree with the Poll. The war is not worth it;

1) In 1988, when Saddam Hussein supposedly gassed Kurds in Iraq where in just one, of a reported 40 gas attacks, 5000 people were killed. It has been found the Kurds actually died after gorging themselves on mustard seeds, not mustard gas.2) The tens of thousands buried in mass graves inside Iraq were actually taking part in a Jim Jones style mass suicide. Instead of Kool-Aid as the choice of death, they chose AK-47s as they dressed in their Sunday best.

In 1990 just before the first Gulf War, it has recently been reported the Kuwaitis had invited the Iraqi soldiers into the country for a festival. When the soldiers were well within the borders, the Kuwaitis began raping and killing the Iraqi soldiers and their own people just to blame it on Iraq so the US would get involved. The Kuwaitis had so much money from the oil industry, they decided to set fire to their oil wells to see how long it would take to put them out.

Of the many, multi-million dollar palaces Saddam supposedly had built with oil money which could have gone to his people, it has been discovered one of the palaces was divided up and housed the Baghdad Chamber of Commerce, the Iraqi Red Cross, and a couple non-for profits. A second was a shelter housing 2000 abused women. A third was a Band-Aid factory.Saddam never got the memo from the UN with the laundry list of rules he broke. Did someone confirm the receiving fax number?

In 2003 the US and allies invaded Iraq and were thwarted by the Republican Guard, Medina and the farmers with rocks and sticks. Casualties of our troops were very high similar to those on D-Day when thousands of troops per hour were killed. The Coalition forces were tossed from Baghdad like a salad.

Finally the Iraqi court trying Saddam in the near future clears him of all charges and the country of Iraq appoints Mr. Hussein as Director of the Iraqi Civil Rights Commission.I would then have to agree our American soldiers died in vain. But I would still have to convince a few thousand military families and a the relatives of the 200,000 or so Iraqis murdered by the regime over 30 years. Maybe I will leave this difficult job to Reuters.