Iraq War
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Shapiro: US defense spending as share of GDP has decreased post-Iraq War
“Military as a percentage of the GDP, or as a percentage of the budget, has been, you know, relatively stable, and in some cases decreasing since, since the end of the Iraq War.”
Christie: Few would have supported Iraq War without WMD claims
“When it turned out that he didn't have WMD, I don't think there would have been many people who would have been supportive of the Iraq war absent WMD.”
U.S. military lost more personnel on Iraq supply lines than front lines
“We lost more people on the supply line than we did on the front line in, in Iraq.”
Sacks: Past U.S. military conflicts were initially popular but ended unpopularly
“The thing to understand about all those wars is that they were incredibly popular at the time that we entered them. And by the time that they ended, they were not.”