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Iraq War veterans: from your experience, was the War worth it?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:00 pm
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:00 pm
Thank you for your service. More than 99% of us don't have your perspective.
Looking back (unfair...hindsight is 20/20), do you think our invasion and occupation was a good thing?
Looking back (unfair...hindsight is 20/20), do you think our invasion and occupation was a good thing?
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Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:02 pm to IvoryBillMatt
I think it would have been a completely different ballgame if we hadn’t done the de Baathification and completely disbanded all of the Iraqi security forces. It’s like Paul Bremer was actively trying to throw the country into chaos.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:03 pm to IvoryBillMatt
No. I was there in the beginning for 15 months straight. Mostly Baghdad.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:04 pm to Twix 23
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I think it would have been a completely different ballgame if we hadn’t done the de Baathification and completely disbanded all of the Iraqi security forces. It’s like Paul Bremer was actively trying to throw the country into chaos.
Thanks, Twix. What did y'all think of Bremer at the time?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:05 pm to IvoryBillMatt
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What did y'all think of Bremer at the time?
I met him when we were trying to train the local security forces. Most of us were just kids. We didn't know shite.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:07 pm to IvoryBillMatt
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Thanks, Twix. What did y'all think of Bremer at the time?
I was 20 years old
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:08 pm to LEASTBAY
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No. I was there in the beginning for 15 months straight. Mostly Baghdad.
Thanks, Least. When did you come to that conclusion? What did most of your unit think about y'all's deployment the time?
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:09 pm to Twix 23
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I was 20 years old
Good answer. Thanks again for your service.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:10 pm to Twix 23
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It’s like Paul Bremer was actively trying to throw the country into chaos.
They were. It could have ended in the first year, but that was never the goal.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:11 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Afghanistan.
No.
No.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:13 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Haji’s, burn pits, converted connex. 3am 100 degree heat. Cant go anywhere without a team of others. Kids begging all the time.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:14 pm to Judnnc
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burn pits
For years I thought I had terrible allergies and now the VA says hey wait a minute
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:15 pm to IvoryBillMatt
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When did you come to that conclusion? What did most of your unit think about y'all's deployment the time?
It sucked arse being there in the beginning as there was no infrastructure. We were a scout unit. I slept on a board propped up on 2 boxes of bleach outside. Ate the same A rats, MREs for days at a time. We had a filter for water. They pumped it out of the Tigris river and put bleach in it after. That doesn't even cover people getting blow away by IEDs constantly. I didn't realize what a waste it was until maybe 10 years ago. Again we were all kids mostly.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:17 pm to IvoryBillMatt
So much time I’ll never get back, alot of dead and permanently disabled with nothing to really show for it.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:21 pm to IvoryBillMatt
Bush was just an idiot figure head… this is probably more proof that the intelligence agency and military industrial complex are pulling the levers of power.
Also way they hate Trump so much. He tells them to fck off
Also way they hate Trump so much. He tells them to fck off
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:21 pm to IvoryBillMatt
It was a waste in the sense that we could have completed the mission in maybe 14 months max, bailed and been done with it. Instead we wasted years in a political quagmire with nothing to show for it in the end.
BIGGEST lesson that should have been learned is if you commit have an objective, complete it, know your endgame, and be done.
We should have learned that in Korea and Vietnam tho.
BIGGEST lesson that should have been learned is if you commit have an objective, complete it, know your endgame, and be done.
We should have learned that in Korea and Vietnam tho.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:23 pm to Harvey Vortac
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So much time I’ll never get back, alot of dead and permanently disabled with nothing to really show for it.
Thanks, Harvey. I didn't think it was right to upvote that.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:24 pm to IvoryBillMatt
I hope for the best for the Iraqi people as that is the only thing to be gained. But no it wasn’t worth it.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:24 pm to IvoryBillMatt
I doubt it was worth it for taxpayers.
Personally, it was one of the great adventures of my life.
Personally, it was one of the great adventures of my life.
Posted on 1/19/26 at 6:25 pm to Django Unchained
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Also way they hate Trump so much. He tells them to fck off
It is encouraging that Trump doesn't want an occupation in Venezuela.
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