Reply #8: Vital interests. [View All]

[gulliver]

Well it is pretty clear that the interests of the companies you have been talking about have been well served. They are the only clear winners.

I'm wondering what the U.S. won.

Thought experiment. Suppose what the Bushies said before the war turned out to be true. (Just imagine it, obviously.)

We would right now be the proud saviors of our way of life. Caches of biological weapons would have been uncovered. The Iraqis would be bringing cake and flowers to the soldiers every day. We would have discovered a nuclear weapons program fast approaching success. We would have found Al Qaeda cells and hundreds of informers eager to turn in some of the Al Qaeda terrorists Bush said Saddam supported. Americans would be basking in world glory and admiration.

But that's not where we are at all. This is nothing like what we were sold. We're the proud owners of a ... what?