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Your question is predicated on the assumption that there is a clear and accepted definition of what our 'best interests' are. This poses a difficult challenge since opinions and priorities change. Therefore, it may be easier to define what's not in our best interest. Perhaps this is will be easier to achieve and agree upon.

The President took an oath to 'defend the constitution against all enemies..foreign and domestic'. Falsely linking the 9/11 attacks to Iraq as an excuse to invade, diminished this oath as well as the office. Definitely not in our best interest!

Virtually the entire world was on our side after 9/11. However, providing the world community with unsubstantiated intelligence, misleading and false threats, etc., as justification for war, have hurt us rather than helped. Jeopardizing our friendships and destroying our credibility amongst the world community is definitely not in our best interest!

Creating more antipathy towards the U.S. from abroad is not in our best interest!

An arrogance from elected officials that ignores the wisdom and advice from military experts/professionals..not in our best interest!

Redirecting our efforts from finding Bin Laden in order to invade Iraq...Nope. Definitely not in our best interest!

Nation building is not our business; we're not good at it! Trying to do so is not in our best interest.

Finally, a war without any justification, which to date has resulted in the death of almost 2500 of our brave men and women in uniform is, DEFINITELY NOT IN OUR BEST INTEREST!

Showing up at the polls in November is the best way we can achieve and protect our best interests as a nation.

2006-06-09 20:20:34 · answer #1 · answered by colhadley 2 · 3 0

No.
Before the invasion people were saying there was no credible evidence of banned weapons and that predictions that Iraq was not governable, and the like. All true, it turns out. Bush was saying that all we needed to do was get rid of Saddam and the people would run their own country very well. That was totally false. The whole thing has been an unmitigated disaster.
BTW, I consider myself a moderate conservative.

2006-06-09 20:44:41 · answer #2 · answered by campbelp2002 7 · 0 0

Here is something that the political left brissles at; you can not prove that taking out Saddam didn't stop him from arming al queda to do us great harm. I can't prove that invading did stop such a thing either; but now that we know al queda members fled Afghanistan for Iraq don't you wonder? How long would it have been before they linked up and gained the support of Saddam? He did support Hamas...so why not al queda?

2006-06-09 20:55:57 · answer #3 · answered by netjr 6 · 0 0

Well, it seems like with Bush's logic that we needed to remove Saddam from power (after exhausting his other excuses), then we should be going on a world tour. There are plenty of other countries that need the weight of a madman taken off their shoulders. What's made Iraq so special?

2006-06-09 20:40:19 · answer #4 · answered by unseenmatter 2 · 0 0

Money!! All about money!

Regardless of what side of the political spectrum anyone stands on, Congress voted. Email your Senator and local rep and ask them that question.

I'm not trying to be sarcastic but you truely should get an answer from the government offical that works for YOU.

My reps probably has me on the watchlist. I don't hesitate to speak my mind be it nice or not so nice. I hold my representatives accountable.



And LN has3 zjc, WTF does the situation in IRAQ have to do with what happened on 9/11? Gawd, I thought people with your mindset were extinct! I guess not.

2006-06-09 20:45:40 · answer #5 · answered by Pretty_Trini_Rican 5 · 0 0

In the short run, no. In the long run, yes. In the short run, you have the actual war itself. Death, devastation, and despair. This, of course, is never beneficial. But in the long run, we are looking at having a strong, prosperous, and for once ARAB ally in the Middle East. This could lead to a transformation of the entire region in the years to come. So I believe the war is, of course, a terrible thing, but can prove to be extremely beneficial in he future. BTW, I am conservative.

2006-06-09 20:40:49 · answer #6 · answered by Incorrectly Political 5 · 0 0

i have been against war since i was a kid i grew up in the 60's and alot of nights my parents would keep me away from the t.v.
i knew we where at war because at the church across from the school i saw a lot of funerals during my 8 years at saint margret marys.and we talked about it a little from time to time.
I felt awfull for the parents who came to the church crying and as luck would have it no one close to me or my family was killed in the war.
people said awful thinks about the soldiers and what was going on the drugs baby killing and i always beleived we could not do such things to people in war .
well later i learned some bad things had been done on both sides and i learned about ww1-ww2 korea the civil war and all the wars through history.
I could never determine if there was a winner and thought it was foolish to even go to war.---- true germany was evil but the land was always in termoil for centuries.who had claim to it and how was it lost and to who so i figured it was best to avoid war all together seems everyone had a claim to the land at some point.everyone tryed to kill off someone or blame them for what was done in the past every race on earth has tried to destroy the other at some time and religion and land always seem to be at the center.
i am all for defending america if an army invades us i will defend it from foriegn aggressors an army is not 100 people who blow up a public building thats a trrorist and i have to ask myself why did they do it.
If they find my way of life so repulsive why come over here and attack me ,but i seethat my way of life is infecting there way and that is the reason why.
I do not approve of how the middle-east treats women and the people in general but i do know it is not my place to tell them how to live there lives there.We were warned to leave them alone for years and instead one leader after another was installed in there countrys we have supported and then attacked or removed how many middle-east leaders to what end.
there will never be peace in that region of the world to many armys have been through it all ready and to that I say leave these people to fight among themselves.
We have ways to get the oil we need in other places that are not going to attack us like the gulf of mexico alaska shale fields in the rockies canada and the north sea .
Is it realy easier to get oil from the middle east or should we leave them alone is it worth the trillions of dollars and all the lives lost so far with more to come over the next twenty years.
If this keeps up we will need a draft and did we not see this coming sinse the end of world war 2 iit is impossible to defeat a country that does not want us there a few leaders from one side and there supporters does not make for a situation we can go in and win .the people must want the change and they must lead the fight . If we had a civil war againand mexico helped the south and canada and great britan helped the north how long do you think it would take to win as long as we could get some bombs and guns people would fight the north or the south and who wins .
The only winner in war is the businesses that make the guns planes bombs ships missles bullets coffins coffins coffins coffins i repeat that so it sinks in people die and never come home never have familys or come back broken mentaly and physicaly missing parts .
When this lattest round of soldiers comes home are we going to take care of them or in ten years will they be living on the streets drunk and using drugs because we are done with them .
I see no good outcome in war except for the ones who supply the weapons.
AT least a few wars back the black smith cooks and weapons makers traveled with the army and where close to the battle and killed like the rest if they lost .
I wonder how many suppliers would be right there with the troops in battle or if bush would lead a charge against an insergent strong hold .
war had a little more charechter back then a leader was there at the battle not always safe thousands of miles away like all wars today kings fell in battle or where over-run and died defending the castle today it has lost its charichter all-together.
I had hoped in my life we would have been able to learn there are no winners in war both sides lose cultures and religions are replaced and the congured indoctrinated to the victors way of life.
I just am not sure my way is the one true way and that there way is wrong so respecting there ways until there people change is all we can do . If we interfer in this then we suffer the results of that interferance in this cse they have no real army so it will be like the northand south of Ireland bomb after bomb after bomb. terrorists never go away only grow older and accept that what is is .
we need to grow a little older and let what is be what it is and not what we want it to be.

2006-06-09 21:48:06 · answer #7 · answered by playtoofast 6 · 0 0

How many people were killed 09/11?
How many more would have been killed right here on OUR land if we had just accepted it and not fought back. In every confrontation, do not wait for them to come to you, GO TO THEM!!
The solid answer is YES, or we would have had a REAL version of the movie "Red Dawn" happening HERE at this very moment!

2006-06-09 20:45:14 · answer #8 · answered by LN has3 zjc 4 · 0 0

If we pull out before the area is stabilized it was not worth going in. If we stay the course, it may still take 20 years to determine if it was a good idea or not.

2006-06-09 20:40:04 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

For thoes of you that have low IQ's this is not giveing us OIL problems.

We now have the U.S. ARMY garding oil wells. If they where not there thoes same oil wells would be open to Terroris to bomb or do as they wish to.

Thing for just one sec before you post next time.

2006-06-09 20:44:05 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

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