Who benefited from the war in Iraq?
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The companies who build war armaments.  The contractors who go over there to rebuild.
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Well, the difference in ability between Iraqi and U.S. troops is huge. U.S. troop are more effective and organized, and better armed. We are training Iraqi forces, though, so they'll get better and take over eventually.
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In my opinion, war contracts and oil.\n\nSaddam was invaded because of Location, Location, Location.
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Victory in Japan.  The west wins the war and America celebrates.
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Iraq, not to be confused with the War on Terror
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Of course Iraqis are better off since we invaded and occupied uh i mean liberated them,  just ask the survivors. \n\nRepublicans are the party of smear and fear
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i was in iraq and i know it is better now. i have talked with hundreds of iraq's and they are much better off now. the only iraq's unhappy are the ones that have lost power and money because saddam is gone. It is better now, even though it may seem bad on tv, before with saddam things were much worse.
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Gotta be Iraq.........hence The United States and Great Britain invading it!
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Yes, I know the difference. Does our president is the question. There was the invasion of Normandy during the second world war, operation Overlord. A valid invasion in the course of a declared war. What our president did when he sent our troops to invade Iraq was an act of war, as it is anytime a country invades another country without declaring war. Saddam wanted Kuwait's oil. Bush can't find Osama, so this was a diversion to placate America after 9/11, and just like Saddam's invasion of Kuwait and George's of Iraq, many innocent people were and continue to be killed.
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live in iraq, its better
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your question isn't very well put so i don't know exactly what you mean. but we went to iraq to help those people living under sadam who was horrible to them.
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Thank you!  we should be happy if the Iraqi's build their government, so they can do things their way. Yes, they needed help. They didn't know how to build democracy, but America has backed off as much as they could. I want to visit Iraq someday and spend my money there as a tourist. If they form this government right, Iraq can get rich just from the tourism. Iraq is beautiful, they deserve to be able to show off the beauty and make money at the same time. I can't wait for the day to buy in their markets. Sit down in a cafe and drink coffee. Visit their Museums, swim in their waters, buy me some Delicious Iraqi food. I'm so excited that someday it will be safe. I love Jordan. and Dubai. Iraq will be like that and all the world will be spending their money there. I want to find out what kind of fish they have that I could fish for.
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Yes and no. They should not have been committed in the first place. But once committed, they should have had the equipment and manpower to be able to make Iraq secure.
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http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2003/iraq/forces/casualties/\n\n\nIt's a shame. \n\nSupport our warriors, but not the war.
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These would be hard to get as it would probably be very hard to identify a specific effect of the war in Iraq on our economy.  The war is simply too small and our economy too large.
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hello frnds.i fully agree that the iraqi war was all due 2 the oil rights.it had nothin 2 do with any nuclear weapons or weapons of mass destruction said 2 be possesed by iraq.it was just a rumour created by the greedy US politicians 2 justify their cause of attackin iraq and in the process gainin control over the iraqi oil wells.as such it has been 2 yrs since iraq has been under the control of the US.no weapons of mass destruction has been found uptil date.so it goes on 2 show the farce the US played.
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Helped both economically and its citizens but damaged 'co-alition's' public image. \n\nThe gulf conflicts are purely down to oil, if oil was not available to the world to use from Iraq Western oil prices would obviously soar crippling the economies and businesses.\n\nUnder the previous regime Saddam kept the revenues from oil for himself, his family and the Republic Guard. The West were very worried after the Gulf war when he burned oil refineries and oil rigs cause millions of £££ worth of damage and loss of a massive amount of oil. What's stopping him from doing it again?\n\nSo by securing oil supply from the Middle East it has actually helped both the US, UK and Iraqi people as this provides the money to invest into their infrastructure and improve standard of living. \n\nUnfortunately this is completely wrong! unethical and embarrasing that we could represent a race of people so materialistic and selfish its about time we realised that we can not keep raping this planet's resources and we need to limit use of resources and pollution before we come to a very abrupt end.\n\nThe war in Iraq as absolutely nothing to do with ridding the Iraq people of a dictator, nobody could give a flying f-uck..  look at Africa! no one cares about the dictators and warlords that have done far FAR worse than Saddam, unfortunately they have no oil.