“Senator Rand Paul now wants Congress to declare war against the Islamic State and engage in military action in Iraq. He says that ‘national security’ is at stake. I’ve got a better idea: Leave Iraq alone! Hasn’t the U.S. government done enough damage already in Iraq? Consider all the death and destruction that interventionists have wrought on this poor nation. Some people estimate that more than a million Iraqis have died as a result of the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq. The reason we don’t have a more precise figure is because the U.S. military announced at the inception of the invasion in 2003 that it would not keep track of Iraqi dead. The number of Iraqis killed just didn’t matter.”
http://fff.org/2014/11/24/rand-paul-wrong-leave-iraq-alone/