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Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by pbourke on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:21AM (#24459069)
> Iraq war, where our intelligence agencies were sure about WMDs and the senate voted 97-0 to wage a war that ended up wasting thousands of American lives, trillions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives along with destabilizing the entire region.

My impression is that the war was a solution in search of a problem. The administration leaned on the intelligence community until the right conclusion was produced.

Re:Ex-Google boss Eric Schmidt: US 'dropped the ball' on inn... by Gibbon1 on Sunday September 13, 2020 @03:33AM (#24459118)
Since Vietnam the war community has wanted one do over after another. To prove that war has a useful role in foreign policy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vietnam_Syndrome