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Originally posted by Superbelt
Instead we showed the world we will lie and act irrational to justify the invasion of a country that had nothing to do with the stated reasons for our invasion. That despite a virtual internation concensus we will do what we want on the world stage. That makes it hard to build up true alliances. We lose respect and goodwill, which is also important.
We also shattered something very important. The impression the rest of the world had that our military was invincible. That was an important bit of PR we had going for us. It made everyone else fear and respect our military might.
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You keep claiming that we "lied" yet there's still no evidence. Since there's no evidence of wmd's they apparently never existed but when faced with no evidence of "lying" it obviously occurred. Doesn't make sense to me. But that's ok, not everything needs to.
Nobody in their right mind thought our military was invinceable. It's been known for decades that our military was vulnerable to guerrila tactics.
As far as "true" alliances, please. Most of the countries that opposed our going into Iraq didn't offer much in the way of support to our previous efforts to attack terrorists so it's not much of a loss.