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Exactly, you make my point. If somehow you think the US had benefited from this you are crazy. The US didn't pour billions of dollars into Iraq, no one in the region was threatened by a despot with the third largest military in the world, it was just a followup to the amazing economic windfalls of Vietnam and Korea!

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I never thought I would see such a comment in HN. I really dont even know where to start disputing your insanely idiotic comments about Vietnam and Iraq wars. We are talking about wars which caused more than 2 million civilian deaths.

You should leave international politics aside and go back to tech or whatever the hell you do in your daily job.

I was being sarcastic. The logic being if the United States would go to war only for economic benefit or control, then that must have also been the case for Vietnam and Korea. Which is, of course, ludicrous.

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