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Investors priced in a 6-week Iraq war, but it lasted 8 years and cost $3 trillion. They’re doing it again

As oil topped $120 a barrel Monday, and Iran named a new supreme leader, Wall Street is still betting this war will be short—the same bet investors made about Iraq in 2003, when a conflict predicted ...
The Conversation

Iraq war’s aftermath was a disaster for the US – the Iran war is headed in the same direction

The United States military achieved every objective it set when it went to war in Iraq in 2003. Decapitation: Saddam Hussein was captured, tried and hanged. Air dominance: total, within days. Regime ...
Cfr.org

Trump’s Iran Campaign Ignores the Lessons of the Iraq War

The disastrous aftermath of U.S.-led regime change in Iraq more than two decades ago could be repeated in Iran with an even wider threat of regional upheaval unless a rational plan for ending the ...
The Washington Post

With campaign under pressure, Platner dials up criticism of Collins’s Iraq war vote

BAR HARBOR, Maine — Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) voted to authorize the Iraq War over two decades ago. Graham Platner (D) served three tours in Iraq. That dynamic between a longtime Senate incumbent ...