I never understood why Iraq invading Kuwait would end the flow of oil. Couldn't we just get it from someone else? All those countries would stop selling it? What else do they have to sell, goat cheese?
We're supposed to believe in free markets, but will use force to make people sell us stuff.
And we could have bought alot of oil with the money we're spending over there. Iraq will end up costing us 4 trillion after lifetime care of those with head trauma, etc. Lifelong debilitation. Not good. Like anything else our government does, the initial cost estimates are bogus.
As for humanitarian purposes, please show me the Constitutional justification for humanitarian missions. If you want to go save people, grab a gun and head over there. Put your own hide on the line, instead of wasting troops like my son who are supposed to be for defense.
Our humanitarian efforts and regime changing usually makes things worse. The story is not over in Iraq - could end up worse than Saddam.
Al qaida is now in Iraq and Libya when they weren't before we intervened.
Ironic that the solution for Saddam killing people was for us to kill people. Save people by bombing and starving them with sanctions.
Not exactly what Jesus preached.
And by the way, our enemies want us bankrupt, and we're giving them what they want. We can't control our desire to police and rule the world, so we will collapse like other empires.