Most of the five dems standing on the stage tonight believe (or said they believe) that the Iraq war was the worst mistake the US has made in modern times.
Viet Nam cost 50,000 casualties, lasted 10 years, and the Communist enemy drove us out of the country and conquered South Viet Nam and placed it under a Communist dictatorship in Hanoi. That's about as bad as defeats get.
Iraq cost only 5000 casualties, a lot, but only a tenth of the Viet Nam casualties. It was successful, the enemy regime was deposed, and a new one installed. Things were well in hand until Obama withdrew all our troops. Without US support, the new regime collapsed, and ISIS took over most of the country.
I say Viet Nam was much much worse than Iraq.
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