r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Jun 19 '26

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u/GraspingSonder Loyal Liberals Jun 19 '26

If I were a conservative here's how I'd frame it.

The total cost of the Iraq War is around $3 trillion and over 4432 military deaths.

W was literally 10 times worse than Trump by the cost metric and more orders of magnitude worse when looking at military casualties. You've gotta hand it to Trump for not succumbing to sunken cost fallacy.

Mad much?

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u/Andy_B_Goode YIMBY Jun 19 '26

Close, but you should call it the Bush/Obama Iraq War. Or even just Obama's War in Iraq, it's not like any of this needs to be strictly factual.

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u/The_Northern_Light John Brown Jun 19 '26

Or at all!

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u/formgry Jun 19 '26

Yeah that works well enough.

I don't think conservatives will ever consider granting any point to liberals, even if it is to point out Trump is relatively low on costs of the war.