Can you tell me your opinion on the Iraqi war?

Question

Please give me a long opinion on the war. I need a LONG one.

Answer 1

get it done

Answer 2

First off, I would like to say that being a soldier in the United States Army, I am very proud of what we have done. Everybody has different opinions about the war and about how the war was started, whether it was justified, or if we something illegal. The problem with the United States is that we are only concerned with ourselves. What about the people of Iraq? What about the thousands of Shiite Muslims that were being murdered every year by Saddam's regime. Sure maybe there were no WMD's(everybody is so concerned about the WMD's), but what about the GENOCIDE? What if Adolf Hitler, Slobadon Milosavich, or Stalin had remained in power? As a soldier i knew signing up for the Army that is could go to some foreign country and die for someone that I had never met. Michael Moore is a one-sided liberal that is only interested in making money, and good opinions about the war doesn't make money. Do I think that some aspects of the war are shady? Sure. Do I think that the only reason why we should have raided Iraq was because of WMD's? No. Iraq had Scud missiles capable of carrying nuclear, chemical, or biological warheads. I think that they said WMD's as a quick reason to invade Iraq. Plus satalites show that a lot of trucks that could have been carrying WMD's going into Syria right before we invaded. In conclusion, schools have been built, people don't go to work in fear, a government has been established, and a dictator is out of power. What is my opinion of the Iraqi war? I think that we should have done this back in the early '90's.

Answer 3

I'm sure you'll get some LONG cut-and-pasted diatrides, but here's my two cents worth.

Contrary to what is being said by the demon-rat America-hating liberals, the Iraqi war is a hugh success. We lost 400,000 in World War 2 over 4 years, we've lost less than 3,000 in Iraq in the same time frame. The purpose of the Iraqi war is to change the face of the middle east. Radical Islam, with their torturing, be-heading, terrorism, women abusing must be stopped, as 9/11 clearly demonstrated. Rather than go into a muslim country, which could trigger a united response form the muslim world, we went into a non-muslim country whose leaders even the muslims didn't like. We've liberated that country. We've forced our enemy to fight our soldiers there, instead of fighting our civilians here in America. We have them on the run. Instead of planning their next attack on America, they're running for their lives. Instead of producing oil to build up their military, Iraq is producing oil for the improvement of their country. Women and children can go to school, and we're showing the middle east what life can be like when you have freedom. They still have the terrorists to deal with, but Isreal has been dealing with them for 60 years, and they're doing fine. The plan has been brilliantly executed. Iraq has had elections, they've formed a government, and they're taking over more and more of the security role. Some complain that we have no "exit strategy", well what was our exit strategy in world war two? We STILL have troops in Germany. Some complain that 2500 volunteer soldiers have died. We lost 3000 civilians on 9/11; surely we would have lost AT LEAST that many more had we done nothing.

God bless our troops, President Bush, and America.

Answer 4

Okay, first of all, are you writing a paper? You really need to formulate your own opinions based on what you believe to be true.

That being said -

I believe that US involvement in Afghanistan was justified, as the attackers of Sept. 11 were based in large part out of that country. It would have been equally justified to invade Saudi Arabia, however, since the majority of the actual hijackers were from that country, and that will never happen given the Bush family's connections to the Saudi royalty.

When our gov. tried to make the case for invading Iraq, it was based entirely on hearsay and faulty information. It was not our business, it was the UN's, and we did not allow them to do their duty when we announced our intentions.

The entire war has been ill-planned and irresponsibly handled. It will turn into another Vietnam because we are now so deep into it that pulling out tomorrow would be impossible.

The Bush admin. is fond of saying that only history will be able to determine the brilliance of their actions. In reality, we'll look back on the Iraq war like we do slavery, our treatment of the American Indians, or the imprisonment of the Japanese during WWII - especially the atrocities committed at Abu Gharib.

Have a pleasant day.

Answer 5

I don't think the reasoning for going to war with Iraq will be worth all the trouble in the long run. A lot of the political reasons for it are masked by either downright dishonesty or dissent from the people. And I don't think the war is being carried out in an effective manner because no one took the "martyr" syndrome into account sufficiently. That's just my opinion of it. Of course, I support our troops and want them to come home safe.

Answer 6

I think it was a mistake. There has been no evidence whatsoever that there were weapons of mass destruction. What little they've found was pre-Gulf War, and too old to be used as weapons. I think Bush went in because "He tried to kill my daddy!" (Saddam put out a hit on the first Bush during the Gulf War). He pulled troops out of Afghanistan to invade Iraq, so we might have had the manpower to find Bin Laden if he hadn't.

Answer 7

oil,Iraq's economy is dominated by the oil sector, which has traditionally provided about 95% of foreign exchange earnings. In the 1980s financial problems caused by massive expenditures in the eight-year war with Iran and damage to oil export facilities by Iran led the government to implement austerity measures, borrow heavily, and later reschedule foreign debt payments. Iraq suffered economic losses from the war of at least US$100 billion. After hostilities ended in 1988, oil exports gradually increased with the construction of new pipelines and restoration of damaged facilities. A combination of low oil prices, repayment of war debts (estimated at around US$3 billion a year) and the costs of reconstruction resulted in a serious financial crisis which was the main short term motivation for the invasion of Kuwait.

On November 20, 2004, the Paris Club of creditor nations agreed to write off 80% ($33 billion) of Iraq's $42 billion debt to Club members. Iraq's total external debt was around $120 billion at the time of the 2003 invasion, and had grown by $5 billion by 2004. The debt relief will be implemented in three stages: two of 30% each and one of 20%.

After the period of economic sanctions many of Iraq's state-owned enterprises were next to collapse. In 2003 the US led Coalition Provisional Authority drew up a framework for largescale privatization and opened up state-owned services to foreign investors. As of 2005, 64% of Iraq's oil reserves are being developed by multinational corporations, based on contracts with the Oil Ministry known as Production Sharing Contracts.The insurgency campaign over recent years has hugely dampened US and British efforts to bring in such foreign investment and frequent attacks on the oil infrastructure have also had a major economic impact.

Iraqi economic indicators of inflation, unemployment and GDP have improved since Saddam was removed from power. The inflation rate of 70% in 2002 has fallen to 25.4% in 2006. The Iraqi unemployment rate of 60% in 2002 has been reduced to 30% in 2006. Gross domestic product in 2004 was $90 billion, more than double the output of Saddam's last year in power. Among Iraqis, an ABC poll from December 2005 found broad optimism.

Answer 8

Big mistake. It will go down in history as The Unnecessary War.

Answer 9

lol. is this for some kind of paper for school?

Answer 10

it sucks and so does the usa and isreal. ;-{