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Indirectly affected

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Directly affected

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@Mar '13 c 106 comments V 291 votes

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May 21
Avoicenmany voted

v Indirectly affected
May 21
Amy2723 voted

v Indirectly affected
May 21
rojopa voted

v Directly affected
May 20

NoAmnestyEVER

v Not affected at All

I wasn't affected. but both Republicans and Democrats agreed on the invasion as did most of the U.N. And as it turns out Saddam had shipped his WMDs to Syria, which is now using it on their own people. It was a justified war, fought against a PROVEN user of WMDs and it we got some oil out of the deal then God Bless America, we deserved it.

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May 20
DesignerLM voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 20
silentrunning endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
May 17

Ghost116

v Directly affected

I served in Iraq 3 times.

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May 17
DrSilicon voted

v Indirectly affected
May 16
littlewolf8469 voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 15
o_oo_e endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 15
looncraz endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 15
DanielZ endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
May 14
JimCO55 voted

v Directly affected
May 14

LEC

v Not affected at All

I had an interesting conversation with someone who said that the US did wars really good because we have had 10 years of war, didn't cost us anything, no draft and hardly a ripple in our lives. So his he right.. sure if you don't mind forgetting the debt piling up, the injured soldier's who can hardly get care, the fact that the rest of the world hates us more every year.. we have Homeland Security and the Patriot Act, can't get on a plane without a cavity search yet it still hasn't affected me at all.. but not to worry, if Congress doesn't start repealing this stuff it will affect us all sooner or later.

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May 14
AndrewMC voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 13
ThomasN456 endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 13
SlimElmo91 voted

v Not affected at All
May 13
Mournwolf voted

v Indirectly affected
May 12
warwil630 voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 12
Fyi1957 endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 12
gherlone voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 12
farmer_bruce endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 10
whatheheck endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 10
hancel voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 9
LilliB voted

v Indirectly affected
May 9
Philof voted

v Not affected at All
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May 9
Jimbo voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 9
Bill voted

v Indirectly affected
May 9

esl99

v Not affected at All

Because I am under age 18 , the war did not cost me any tax money. I do not know anyone who served, and I was unaware of its existance for a long time.

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May 9

Aftermath

v Indirectly affected

I sure slept better knowing the terrorist were over there, in the fighting. But when we gave up and came home...... That may come back to bite us in the ass. Let me tell you about kids and rock fighting. Say you have a problem with the kid down the street. So you gather up some good throwing rocks and head out. You see him coming out of his door and you let fly. Now he will cuss and scream and threaten you all day, but he won't leave. He will look for his chance to even the score. So you get tired and go home. Well boys and girls, I guarantee you he is already gathering his throwing rocks. .

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May 9
rickv2 endorsed metre

v Directly affected
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May 8
LibertyWolf voted

v Indirectly affected
May 7
oldtimer2 endorsed armed_liberal

v Indirectly affected
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May 7
buckilaked voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 7
jdee516 voted

v Not affected at All
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May 6
ckam93 voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 6

URBS

v Directly affected

Both of them!

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May 6
PaulUK2901 voted

v Indirectly affected
May 5
Ryan90 voted

v Indirectly affected
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May 4

fraps

v Not affected at All

No means no.

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May 3
Fitz endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 3

4PeteSake

v Indirectly affected

It was a mess

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May 2
Spirit02 endorsed Sonny

v Directly affected
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May 2
tomtheterrible endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
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May 1
LGRepublican endorsed commonsense51

v Not affected at All
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May 1
captbigtime endorsed Kellso

v Indirectly affected
May 1
Deste66 voted

v Indirectly affected
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Apr 30
kgautreau voted

v Directly affected
Apr 30
LonePalm endorsed GuyFawkes

v Directly affected
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Apr 30
DemonsAngel13 endorsed metre

v Directly affected

May 20

NoAmnestyEVER

v Not affected at All

I wasn't affected. but both Republicans and Democrats agreed on the invasion as did most of the U.N. And as it turns out Saddam had shipped his WMDs to Syria, which is now using it on their own people. It was a justified war, fought against a PROVEN user of WMDs and it we got some oil out of the deal then God Bless America, we deserved it.

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May 17

Ghost116

v Directly affected

I served in Iraq 3 times.

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May 14

LEC

v Not affected at All

I had an interesting conversation with someone who said that the US did wars really good because we have had 10 years of war, didn't cost us anything, no draft and hardly a ripple in our lives. So his he right.. sure if you don't mind forgetting the debt piling up, the injured soldier's who can hardly get care, the fact that the rest of the world hates us more every year.. we have Homeland Security and the Patriot Act, can't get on a plane without a cavity search yet it still hasn't affected me at all.. but not to worry, if Congress doesn't start repealing this stuff it will affect us all sooner or later.

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May 9

esl99

v Not affected at All

Because I am under age 18 , the war did not cost me any tax money. I do not know anyone who served, and I was unaware of its existance for a long time.

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May 17

Ghost116

However, now that you know about it, know that it cost lives and a lot of money (your parents pay taxes) and it has forever shifted our role in foreign politics, wouldn't you say it affects you now? Just sayin... Lol

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May 9

Aftermath

v Indirectly affected

I sure slept better knowing the terrorist were over there, in the fighting. But when we gave up and came home...... That may come back to bite us in the ass. Let me tell you about kids and rock fighting. Say you have a problem with the kid down the street. So you gather up some good throwing rocks and head out. You see him coming out of his door and you let fly. Now he will cuss and scream and threaten you all day, but he won't leave. He will look for his chance to even the score. So you get tired and go home. Well boys and girls, I guarantee you he is already gathering his throwing rocks. .

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May 18

Ghost116

Is your view that we gave up? You do realize that the entire war wasn't based on terrorism or terrorists. That's why we went to Afghanistan. We went to Iraq originally because we were told Saddam had weapons of mass destruction. Where as I do agree he was a destabilizer for the entire region, what we did was by no means the way to do things. We set ourselves up for failure. So the two options we had were to either remain in that country getting more and more military service members killed and racking up our debt to untold of limits, or to draw down and exit, handing control of the country back to the government of Iraq. We went after terrorists in Afghanistan, Iraq ha...

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May 6

URBS

v Directly affected

Both of them!

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May 4

fraps

v Not affected at All

No means no.

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May 3

4PeteSake

v Indirectly affected

It was a mess

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Apr 30

Fallstaff

v Indirectly affected

We all have been affected by the Iraq War. The bravery of our military, and allies like Great Britain, have held the terrorists in check over there so we didn't have any new 9-11's. That is until a Muslim terrorist was elected and LET attacks happen here. Think Obama's incompetence and Benghazi. Think Obama's complicity and the Boston Marathon Massacre. IMPEACH COMRADE OBAMA NOW!!!

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May 18

Ghost116

Thank you for the support. One correction, we weren't in It's a because of terrorists. We were in Afghanistan to fight terrorists. We went to Iraq on the premise of a lie. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11.

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Apr 29

GunPolitics

v Directly affected

USMC 0311 oif 2003 echo 2/5 so yes directly affected

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Apr 28

digitalshaman

v Indirectly affected

We're still paying the price for allowing a corrupt system to shovel billions into the pockets of D.C. insiders with ties to corrupt "war for profit" contractors. (See Halliburton, Kellog Brown & Root, etc.)

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Apr 26

akbison

v Directly affected

I did three tours there. Saw lots of people die. Recovered lots of blown up equipment and was wounded. Not only has it effected me and my family but it has taken loved ones from the family on both sides.

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Apr '13

TruthGrasper

v Indirectly affected

Back in 2004 while I was attending college, Army recruiters were walking the hallways looking for potential soldiers. I agreed to enlist, but was disqualified at processing by the doctor during the interview and mental examination because of my honesty and full disclosure of facts, and so was rejected for enlistment. At that time it was about a year after my conversion to Christianity, and I thought that I needed the money to pay for tuition, though my feelings regarding warfare and fighting were mostly hesitant and pacifistic. I knew that invading and occupying Iraq would not bring an end to terrorism, and that Islam would continue to increase and churn out zealous ji...

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Apr 26

akbison

I may or may not like you!

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Mar '13

Erik97

v Indirectly affected

My dad had to answer the nations call and had friends pay the ultimate price

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Mar '13

RedFloppyShoes

v Indirectly affected

Everyone has been effected by that war

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Mar '13

MarkColwell

v Directly affected

Delayed my retirement from the Army for a few months, not a big dealâ¦ however distracting the country from Afghanistan, the loss of tens of thousands of lives and unnecessarily spending about 2 trillion in Iraq is a big deal.

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Mar '13

tomincali

v Directly affected

family and coworkers.

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Mar '13

Food4thoughts

v Directly affected

There's isn't anyone in this country that wasn't directly affected by the Iraq war.

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Mar '13

Speedieg

v Directly affected

Yes I am one of the people who will have no Medicare or social security due to the deficits created by this false war on terrorism.

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Mar '13

MadAmerican

v Directly affected

Yes-I was lied to and my taxpayer dollars and the lives of my fellow soldiers were used for nothing more than personal financial gain!

B1

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Mar '13

Kellso

v Indirectly affected

WE all were greatly affected. Trillions of dollars of our tax money spent during the war and all the lives lost. How coudlit NOT affect everyone?

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Mar '13

Sonny

v Directly affected

I was directly effected because as an American Citizen---I was one of hundreds of millions who were directly lied-to and manipulated and who had his Congressman and Senators lied to---Which resulted in thousands of my fellow citizens being killed over a lie...And all for the purpose of enriching a few oil companies and oil servicing firms...Yes I was deeply effected and deeply offended as well...

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Mar '13

metre

v Directly affected

EVERYONE that is a citizen of The United States of America was "directly affected" (although the more correct word would be 'effect' unless you are only speaking of the emotional/mental toll) by the Iraq War whether you realize it or not! Your taxes PAID the MASSIVE profits that the Military-Industrial Complex made AND your taxes DIDN'T go to things that directly benefit YOU (unless you are/were an investor in those companies) like infrastructure, healthcare, and education HERE in the United States! Infrastructure, healthcare, and education being three major things that massive amounts of money was WASTED on in Iraq. Things like hospitals that were never completed, roa...

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Mar '13

AceLuby

v Indirectly affected

Had friends go to war and eventually we will need to pay for it since the GOP decided we didn't need to when we went in.

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Mar '13

commonsense51

v Not affected at All

I was not affected at all by the Iraq war but i can tell you Obama has affected my life in many ways. All bad!

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Mar '13

Denizen_Kate

v Indirectly affected

Anyone who thinks they weren't at least indirectly affected is either rich or isn't thinking about the huge hit all of us have taken in our day-to-day lives and our overall standard of living largely as a result of this enormous expenditure on the invasion of a country that was NOT in any way threatening the United States, either directly or indirectly.

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Mar '13

armed_liberal

v Indirectly affected

My grand kids will need to pay for it.

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Mar '13

Scrpnhog

v Directly affected

Because I served two tours in Iraq. And it's funny that people comment about they were affected by this as they sat on there ass and listen to propaganda.

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Mar '13

GuyFawkes

v Directly affected

Do you mean other than spending years in combat? *stares off into space*

B1

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Mar '13

Russell797

v Indirectly affected

Everyone has been affected in multiple, indirect ways. War causes emotional and physical pain. It strains relationships between people of differing opinion. It influences the economy in both positive and negative ways. The sight of bombs decimating a city on the nightly news in YOUR name has to impact you somehow.

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