true. but war in the middle east and it's drain didn't help things. and that was all george.
...things were very stable over there before the election of 2000.
And it's not like the President
PRIOR to him had established a policy of regime change in Iraq as late as 1998.
The war in Iraq isn't the problem here.
The war in Iraq didn't cause bubble economies.
The war in Iraq didn't cause GM to go bankrupt.
It didn't cause unemployment to go into the double digits.
It didn't run up $14T dollars of debt.
It isn't why the only growth sectors of our economy are federal jobs and healthcare- and given time, the government would like to make them one in the same.
The war in Iraq isn't the reason why the Congress wants to run this years debt ceiling up to $2T.
And the war in Iraq has nothing to do with the erosion of our liberties.
Did the war "help things?"
That's a strange choice of words when addressing a military action.
We can argue the merits of the Iraqi invasions and the strategic failures that are associated with it, but it has nothing to do with the state of the country. And it's impossible to discuss the ultimate outcome because that's yet to be determined. In the long run, the idealistic foreign policy applied may be extremely beneficial to us and the stability of the region. More so than the invasion in Afghanistan, which I'm sure you'll argue is the "just war" and the one we "really needed to commit too."