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The actual cost in American lives to remove Saddam from power was extremely small. Its the cost of trying to establish a free, stable and democratic Iraq that is actually proving to be very high.


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The "liberals" who opposed the war predicted that

- there was no plan to win the aftermath of the shock and awe
- the ethnic tensions would be very difficult to manage and there was no plan to do so
- the chances of a theocracy was very high


Even the Powell doctrine was ignored, there was no exit strategy in place.

Not only the "liberals" have been proven right in their assessment that there was no present and gathering threat but in their assessment that we were entering a no-win situation.

So, on the how and the why the anti-war camp appears to have understood the situation better than the gunslingers.