10 years after the Iraq war.

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It was an absurd war started by an absurd man.

The ramifications from it will haunt us for a century.... and sad to say at least 30% of the population of the US have learned absolutely nothing from it.

I would say a majority. If a majority of Americans HAD learned from it, we'd be calling for an indictment of W's cabinet.

I think even today, saying "Bush lied us into a war" is pooh-poohed as "shrill". I haven't checked lately but that was the consensus just a few years ago.

For those outside my country seeking to understand how that's possible, our corporate owned media cheer-led the war during the run-up and then swept it all under the rug when the dust settled and it turned out all of Bush's wild claims weren't even sort-of true. The media elites in America apparently studied "Pravda" (former Soviet propaganda ministry) carefully. How ironic then that today, to be an informed American, you have to go to foreign sources of media like Russia Today.

Forgive us world, we know not what we do.

I don't give Obama or you guys much more credit. The whole argument that "Well now we are there, so we have to keep on killing and building and bombing and killing, but at least we didn't start it!" Doesn't carry a lot of weight with me.

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Based on his previous history, how many civilians would Saddam Hussein have murdered in the last ten years had the allies not intervened?

The US has killed far more people in Iraq than Saddam Hussein ever did. For some of the whiny liberals who think it's all the fault of George Bush, the sauctions that Clinton kept in place and supported killed 500,000 people. All U.S. administrations of been responsible for horrible suffering in Iraq.