Over 4,400 soldiers were killed More than 100,000 Iraqis were killed as well in the Iraq war. Billions of dollars were lost. For what? There were no weapons of mass destruction and no connection with Al Qaeda.

Republicans argue that the Democrats voted for the war as well. That is true, but they were working with faulty evidence provided by the White House. Either the Bush administration deliberately lied or they saw what they wanted to see and ignored the facts.

Either way, it’s unconscionable.

From not having enough troops after the fall of Saddam to not having enough armor for the troops, this war unjustified. It was mismanaged from day one.

“You go to war with the army you have, not the army you might want or wish to have at a later time,” Donald Rumsfeld said.

That is a terrible excuse and a slap in the face to our brave men and women fighting this misguided and rushed war. He should have been fired after saying that.

They kept open Saddam’s notorious Abu Ghraib and it was a place where degrading acts were committed. We should of let the Iraqi people tear it down brick-by-brick.

Then, there was the mockery that was “mission accomplished” and the fact that this was a for-profit war from the beginning.

Private contractor Blackwater, now XE Services, was given a $27.7 million no-bid contract to work in Iraq. Eric Prince, Blackwater owner, during the first four years of the Iraq War, was a radical fundamentalist Christian who viewed this war as a holy war.

“He views himself as a Christian crusader tasked with eliminating Muslims and the Islamic faith from the globe,” said a former Blackwater employee in sworn testimony of his former boss. These mercenaries were anything but Christian.

On Sept. 16, 2007, Blackwater contractors open-fire and killed 17 Iraqis. U.S. Military reports confirmed that this was excessive and unwarranted. These acts were conducted in cold blood, according to a military official in a Washington Post report.

In 2007, there was a bill passed that would make all private contractors working in Iraq subject to U.S. prosecution. However in one of his last acts, L. Paul Bremer, head of the Coalition Provisional Authority, signed Order 17, giving these war criminals immunity from persecution. After all of our troops come home, the private contractors will still be in Iraq.

There is some evidence that George W. Bush saw Iraq in apocalyptic terms as well. Andrew Brown of the UK Guardian reported that while trying to sell the war to then French President Jacques Chirac, President Bush reportedly said to him that in the Middle East he “saw Gog and Magog at work.” According to Thomas Römer, a professor and an expert on Old Testament theology at the University of Lausanne, Gog and Magog refer to a battle of biblical proportions in Ezekiel 38.

This is a little known conversation, but it scares the living daylights out of me. It scares me even more because he is not the only one in power that shares his theology. Michelle Bachmann and Rick Perry do as well.

I have thought that the talk of arresting Bush, Cheney and Rumsfeld on war crimes was liberals going way overboard. The more I read, the sicker I became and now I think if there is any justice, they will be. However the democrats decided not to, they wanted to look forward and not focus on the past. But I have to ask, if we don’t face our country’s possible war crimes. What’s to say that those atrocities won’t happen again?

So to sum up, we lost billions of dollars, around 5,000 American lives, 100,000 Iraqi lives, and our values as a nation. There is one more casualty, this writer’s faith in America’s foreign policy being a force for good in this world.