To reiterate that one point - there are no good wars. We can justify the project on certain ridiculously rare occasions, but we have to stay cognizant that there's just never a time when going to war isn't a matter of choice.
Mullens's assertion that we didn't have a debate before we went into Iraq seems to imply that we could've talked about it but chose not to.
If that's what he meant, that's bullshit
There was plenty of pushback from "the left", but this whole country got steam-rollered. We stood up and screamed our fool heads off, and we were immediately shouted down as a buncha hippie has-beens and leftie terrorist-loving blockheads. And the "liberal media" led the way on that one.
We were right about all of it. ALL OF IT. As usual.
6 trillion dollars disappeared during a 20-year splurge that made billionaires out of millionaires, and millionaires out of shiftless no-account grifters.
The real cost of it is always born by the people up front doing the fighting and the bleeding and the dying - and then "when it's over", the guys who spent their time at the broken end of the bottle get to deal with the continuing residual miseries of PTSD and SUD and the multitude of diseases caused directly by their service - all by themselves - ignored and dismissed by the assholes who turn a profit on human suffering.
There's something very wrong with the way we're doing things.
The people who make the decisions about going to war are the ones who profit from it, while everybody else pays the price.
Shit's gotta change.
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