Iraq

[crash]

I don't think it was a clusterfuck at all, and whether or not you think it was essential would depend on which side of the capitalist/paranoia fence you stood. This war was about WMD's as much as George W. was making the decisions for his administration.... Good ole W. might have been pulling the trigger, but I don't think anyone will ever find out who was loading the gun, and it was well co-ordinated and propaganda-ised, and plenty of gullible civilians around the world believed it at first, not your average cluster....

By the time the general public of the globe started to accept that ths war was on the nose, the US (and its many allies) had already secured back their future supply of black gold and flexed their muscles in case the middle east were getting any ideas about holding it over their heads, still doesn't really fit the criteria of a cluster, objective completed really...

I hate voicing this cynical opinion, for I believe it makes it look like I don't give a toss about the deaths of those who gave their lives for their countries in the belief that they were doing so for a better future, but their blood is on the hands of the strategists that decided the collateral damage was worth the price of supply. I will bow my head and thank them still