Reply #4: It's hard to know which part of this is the most awful. [View All]

[Zan_of_Texas]

The over 10,000 Iraqis dead. Many women and children.

The over 10,000 American soldiers wounded.

The at-one-time 8,000 Iraqis in prison under US occupation in Iraq. Red Cross estimates were that perhaps 70% of these prisoners had done NOTHING wrong.

The unspeakable crimes committed by American soldiers against the Iraqi prisoners. (While being a rape victim is never a good thing, in Iraq some of the rape victims go back to their villages and commit suicide. They are ruined for life.)

The American soldiers who come back alive and not physically wounded -- how will men and women who have killed civilians and tortured prisoners "fit" back into US culture? Right, they can go work as prison guards back in the States.

But, the blowback from creating killing and torturing machines and bringing them back will be costly. Not to mention the angry families of the Iraqis imprisoned, tortured or killed.