Soldier Reacts To Report That Iraq Wasn’t Worth It

If you doubt this one fact, then you will never understand those we send into combat. They do it for each other!

Local Soldier Reacts To Report That Iraq Wasn’t Worth It
March 7, 2013


PITTSBURGH (NewsRadio 1020 KDKA) – After 10 years and $60 billion of American money, Iraq is still broken. Money has been misspent, security is still questionable and the country is still unstable.

The problems in Iraq have been published in a new report from the U.S. government that says that our intent in Iraq — which was to topple a corrupt government and make the country an independent ally to the US — has failed in a very disappointing way. In other words: Iraq wasn’t worth it.

Try saying that to the soldiers who risked their lives fighting in Iraq, the families whose loved one never came home, or the veterans with missing limbs. Was their sacrifice not worth it?

KDKA-AM’s Larry Richert talked to Ben Keen, a two-tour Iraq Veteran, about what he thinks of the idea that Iraq wasn’t worth the fight.

Keen is the founder of Steel City Vets, an organization that helps local returning veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan get acclimated to civilian life. He thinks that while the misspent money — which equates to $15 million dollars a day — and corruption are a fact of the mishandling of Iraq reconstructions, the fighting and work he and other Americans did there was definitely worth it.
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