Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report

[Rev. Hellh0und]

Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report


Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report

A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outweigh any successes or progress made in either conflict.

A Pew Research Center report published Wednesday states that 64% -- or almost two-thirds -- of veterans polled in a new survey said the Iraq war "was not worth fighting," and 58% said the same about the war in Afghanistan.

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As a Fellow Veteran I agree, they were not worth it. We don't have the stomach to conduct a real war, we put our troops in unneeded danger and restricted them. All for what? Then our country and our leaders who send troops to war don't take care of them when they come home maimend and injured. What gain did these wars of choices give us. Today, so many veterans I know feel the same way.

 

[Hollywood]

Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report


Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report

A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outweigh any successes or progress made in either conflict.

A Pew Research Center report published Wednesday states that 64% -- or almost two-thirds -- of veterans polled in a new survey said the Iraq war "was not worth fighting," and 58% said the same about the war in Afghanistan.

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As a Fellow Veteran I agree, they were not worth it. We don't have the stomach to conduct a real war, we put our troops in unneeded danger and restricted them. All for what? Then our country and our leaders who send troops to war don't take care of them when they come home maimend and injured. What gain did these wars of choices give us. Today, so many veterans I know feel the same way.

Yep, pretty fucking obvious...

 

[cpicturetaker12]

I don't care if one enters the military by tradition, commitment, desperation or because they wanted some extra monthly income and ended up in BUSH's sorry ass war of CHOICE. They lied used cooked INTEL and lied some more. You can't keep people stupid--especially the ones that were there. NO matter how much REPUBLICAN bullshit their revisionist LIARS throw at its utter unmitigated failure.

 

[Tedminator]

Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report


Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report

A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outweigh any successes or progress made in either conflict.

A Pew Research Center report published Wednesday states that 64% -- or almost two-thirds -- of veterans polled in a new survey said the Iraq war "was not worth fighting," and 58% said the same about the war in Afghanistan.

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As a Fellow Veteran I agree, they were not worth it. We don't have the stomach to conduct a real war, we put our troops in unneeded danger and restricted them. All for what? Then our country and our leaders who send troops to war don't take care of them when they come home maimend and injured. What gain did these wars of choices give us. Today, so many veterans I know feel the same way.

The invasion of Afghanistan would have been tolerable by itself since thats a NATO mission, but the US decision to invade Iraq was a strategic blunder of historic proportions thats costing the USA dearly. Thats a clusterfuck which ranks up there with giving Vietnam back to the French at the end of ww2 rather than supporting the bid for independence by the Vietnamese.

 

[remington50]

Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report


Most Veterans Say Iraq, Afghanistan Wars Weren't Worth It: Pew Report

A majority of veterans taking part in a new research study says that the cost and burden of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan outweigh any successes or progress made in either conflict.

A Pew Research Center report published Wednesday states that 64% -- or almost two-thirds -- of veterans polled in a new survey said the Iraq war "was not worth fighting," and 58% said the same about the war in Afghanistan.

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As a Fellow Veteran I agree, they were not worth it. We don't have the stomach to conduct a real war, we put our troops in unneeded danger and restricted them. All for what? Then our country and our leaders who send troops to war don't take care of them when they come home maimend and injured. What gain did these wars of choices give us. Today, so many veterans I know feel the same way.

I agree that it wasn’t worth it. We didn’t do what we should have done. Killed every member of al quada and then leave.

The proper American military conduct should be a limited isolationist concept. We’d support allies in some general ways (arms deals, cross train, naval deployment and shipping route protection). Cover warfare would be important. Similar to Israel. But when the bad guys do something like 9/11, we just kill them all. Why we ever bothered to stay? I don’t know.

 

[remington50]

I don't care if one enters the military by tradition, commitment, desperation or because they wanted some extra monthly income and ended up in BUSH's sorry ass war of CHOICE. They lied used cooked INTEL and lied some more. You can't keep people stupid--especially the ones that were there. NO matter how much REPUBLICAN bullshit their revisionist LIARS throw at its utter unmitigated failure.

At this point? I wouldn’t just blame the republicans. Democrats were too pussy to pull us out with 8 years of Obama. How did they manage to cock that up? I’m still baffled how we have troops there.

The crossroads of empires should just be left at this point.

 

[boontito]

I agree with those 64%.

 

[HCProf]

Has any war in the ME been worth it? I agree with the 64% a well. No one wins in the ME. The ME has been fighting for 3000 years and will continue until they destroy each other.

 

[BarKnuckles]

Has any war in the ME been worth it? I agree with the 64% a well. No one wins in the ME. The ME has been fighting for 3000 years and will continue until they destroy each other.

Or until the world stops invading them.