Army Worried by Rising Stress of Return Tours to Iraq

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Originally Posted by AJ!

The war has had terrible conciquences, but at the same time it was a just cause.

If that is not suspicious of being contradictory. It was no just casue by the offical reasons for it anyway. And not by the consequences at all.

Saddam needed to be stopped and an attempt had to be made to crush the terrorist groups operating in and around Iraq.

but there were no terrorist groups operating from inside Iraq, and why attacking Iraq when terrorist groups operate from outside and around Iraq escapes me. the majhor offense of saddam was, regharding terror, that he payed pensions to Palestinian families of "martyrs". and that hardly can be enough to justify the mess one created to fight this "terrorism". Those mensions were provoking and disgusting, and that'S all they were. Terrorism is something different.

I dont think anyone could have foresaw the situation that has unfolded although the way the war was planned could be called into question

wrong again, it had been forseen by many people and they said so liud and clear, and I even say that it had to be forseen and must have been forseen, because for everybody knowing even a bit about the context and the situation in Iraq it was the most obvious thing to expect exactly that outcome that we have gotten. And when little unimportant me could have forseen it - much better payed so-called experts I can demand to have known it then, too. And many did for sure. Question is if American leaders WANTED to know it. As far as I recall it, they did not. I wonder how often again this needs to be said. endlessly repeating the same fairy tales of terror groups in Iraq time and again does not turn them into truths, and thinking that the outcome could not have been known, is a cheap excuse.