Quote:I commend you for not using google to come up with the answer that you gave, even though the answer is incorrect.  The correct answer is WWII.  Our country has not "officially declared war" under the rules of our Constitution since WWII.

 

Contrary to what you believe and what the media tells you these days, going into Iraq was a proper thing and was not a "failure".  Contrary to what the media says, going into Iraq and eliminating the regime (Saddam  Hussein and his sons) was a good thing.  The "direct defense of our nation" is not really clear to most people.  The argument most brought up is the finding or not finding the "weapons of mass destruction".  There is evidence that said weapons not only existed, but they were used on the very people within the country.

 

Conflicts since WWII were not in fact a "policing" policy.

 

What started the Korean War and why did America get involved?  It certainly was not because of our "policing policy", it was more along the lines of atrocities being done by the North Korean regime towards it's own people (not much difference between that and what Saddam Hussein was doing to his people).

 

Whether or not WMDs existed in Iraq is beside the point. Saddam Hussein was not responsible for 9/11, and most certainly was not an imminent threat to the US. They could not even fly military aircraft in their own airspace. The billions spent waging the war in Iraq, the thousands of women and men we lost, the hundreds of thousands of innocent dead Iraqis, the lack of planning for a postwar Iraq and last, but certainly not least, the current mess in Iraq all point to the fact that the war in Iraq was very much a failure.

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