Bush lied, and 12,000+ Iraqis died.
Bald Eagle,
Re: but you can never take away what he has done in the fight against terrorists
Right.
Bush has lied to us about WMDs,
Niger uranium contracts,
Saddam's al-Qaeda contacts
and Bechtel and Halliburton contracts.
From a friend on the Net:
The Toll of War
47 days have past since the launch of war
2,500+ Iraqi civilians believed dead
10,000 Iraqi combatants believed killed
105 US soldiers killed
33 British troops killed
10 Journalists killed (2 still missing)
30,000 Bombing sorties conducted by the Allies
50 cluster bombs dropped
17,000,000 Iraqis reliant on food aid
1 in 4 Iraqi children under 5 suffering from severe malnutrition
40,000 Baghdad residents reliant on the Red Cross for water
35 top-ranking Iraqis still at large (Including Saddam and his family)
400 queries made each day to the Red Cross by Iraqis seeking family and
loved ones
Iraq's infrastructure has been totally destroyed
Things like the education syllabus will have to be totally re-written
Purges and investigations into the activities of thousands of government
workers will have to be done
The US spent an estimated $55 billion on this war
British costs are unclear, but estimated somewhere between £5-10 Billion
$100 Billion+ estimated cost of rebuilding Iraq
US companies clamour for a slice of the cake
The Iraqi oil ministry was secured by US troops with virtually no damage by
looters, yet the hospitals and priceless artefacts in the museums were
abandoned.
55% Bush's approval rating before war
72% Bush's current rating
45% Blair's approval rating before war
52% Blair's current rating
ZERO Weapons of Mass Destruction found.
The US government kept vilifying the UN inspectors for not finding anything,
all the while claiming that they knew where the weapons were - yet with the
US and British Military in control of almost the whole country, they are
still unable to find any evidence.
We were lied to - it's as simple as that.
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