Was the Bombing of Bagdhad tactically necessary? [View All]

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As I recall the fighting was essentially over sometime before they got to Bagdhad and then when they got there, there was little fighting, but they went ahead and blew it up anyway, then declared "Mission Complete".

I know they had the jollies to display our "Shock and Awe" war power to intimidate the rest of the world, but is that alone reason enough in itself to unleash these bombs and destroy all we did?

Does anyone else smell a rat in all this? I mean calling the destruction of the buildings "Mission Complete" followed by the commitment of billions of our dollars, and our childrens dollars, and their childrens dollars to no bid contracts for the vice president's company to rebuild a nation half way around the world that never needed to be destroyed, while our own falls apart?