[lostalex]

Originally Posted by DemolitionRed

9/11 brought about US/NATO war in Iraq. We didn't go into Iraq to build hospitals and roads, we went in to obliterate it. The spoils of war nearly always includes deals to rebuild. Afghanistan wasn't re-built out of our generosity; it was done to boost a western economy and take back some of the money used during its long war campaign.

That's total bull**** dude. we defeated the Iraqi army and toppled the government after just 3 weeks. we stayed there for 10 years because we tried to help them rebuild. Invading Iraq wasn't the mistake, staying and trying to help was the mistake.

If it were up to me we(the US) would have left after that first month after we defeated Iraq.

We won the war in just 1 month. why did we stay??