saying this, emmaverybo!

The U.S. war in Iraq has cost $1.7 trillion with an additional $490 billion in benefits owed to war veterans, expenses that could grow to more than $6 trillion over the next four decades counting interest, a study released on Thursday said.

The war has killed at least 134,000 Iraqi civilians and may have contributed to the deaths of as many as four times that number, according to the Costs of War Project by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University.

When security forces, insurgents, journalists and humanitarian workers were included, the war’s death toll rose to an estimated 176,000 to 189,000, the study said.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-war-anniversary-idUSBRE92D0PG20130314

“If Saddam Hussein is still there five years from now, we are in big trouble.”

“It would be unrealistic, if not downright foolish, to believe we can claim victory in the war on terrorism if Saddam is still in power,”

“There is overwhelming support for the proposition that Saddam Hussein should be removed from power.”

“This will be the first time ever in the history of the United States of America that we have essentially invaded another country preemptively to take out a leadership, I think justifiably given the case being made.”

Take a guess who said the above quotes.

This move hurts us with future allies.

Iraq was a huge mistake. Neither Biden nor Clinton voted for a war. They voted to give the president authorization under conditions which he then violated. Biden became a critic of the war and under Obama handled Iraq Post-war.