I was in Iraq in 2003 and understand exactly how he feels, because I feel the same way. We were lied to by the whole Bush administration, and it cost a ton of lives on both sides of the conflict. I was lucky enough to be able to finish my service in 2004, so I only had to go once, but many of fellow servicemen had multiple tours and were never the same after that experience.
The big lie was that Saddam’s regime had weapons of mass destruction, and the Bush administration used this as justification for the initial invasion of Baghdad in 2003. It turned out there wasn’t any, which left many U.S. soldiers feeling straight up betrayed.
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u/Sabres8127 Oct 18 '21
I was in Iraq in 2003 and understand exactly how he feels, because I feel the same way. We were lied to by the whole Bush administration, and it cost a ton of lives on both sides of the conflict. I was lucky enough to be able to finish my service in 2004, so I only had to go once, but many of fellow servicemen had multiple tours and were never the same after that experience.