Why can't Bush bring the troops home if we've already freed Iraq?

Question

I thought the whole purpose of entering Iraq was to find any nuclear missiles, oops I mean to free them, oops I mean to preserve the oil, oops I guess I DON'T know anymore why Bush sent our troops to Iraq. But despite that, why isn't he bring them back home already?

Answer 1

WMD was never defined as nuclear missles. if we leave now we risk everythign falling apart. Dems want to leave and not finish the job. The government of Iraq is still in its infancy and prone to bribs and corruption. We have to stay until democracy has taken root. It is vital to our interests in the region.

Whatever your views on the Iraq war, America has both a moral obligation to the Iraqis and a powerful interest of its own in making sure that it hands over to a government and army that have at least half a chance of holding the place together and preventing a complete collapse into anarchy and sectarian bloodletting. Iraq’s own elected leaders say that for the present American troops should stay.

Answer 2

Sense the conflict is a occupation and the war was done years ago the insurgents will not stop until we go home. That is how you win a occupation you "Cut and Run" or go home. My guess is when they finish the middle east headquarters embassy we will start to see some come troops come home. I think Bush and companies are there to run the business part of the country. THE POINT IS IRAQ HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH 911

Answer 3

to all the above who mentioned the civil war between she'aa and sunna... american troops over there isnt really helping in any way in that matter!! what did they do exactly that helped? sunna and she'aa are still fighting, killing and kicking each other out! and that happen infront of the iraqi policemen, that were picked by the government, which was picked by usa! the answer to your question is unknown since the rest of your ques is incorrect.. Bush never sent the troops to free Iraq. as silly as it may be, at least when Saddam was the president of Iraq, he had things in charge and ppl had somewhat of a life instead of the nothing that they have now!

Answer 4

#1. We've found over 500 WMD in iraq since we entered
Sources:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,200499,00.html
http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewNation.asp?Page=/Nation/archive/200606/NAT20060621e.html
http://www.mediaresearch.org/press/2006/press20060623.asp

#2. We've helped set up a democratically elected government in iraq, captured saddam, killed his sons who raped women and killed man. We killed zarqaui. Terrorist computers have been captured with letters to other terror leaders stating they feel they're losing. Sounds pretty good to me. We will bring the troops home when iraq's army can defend itself and it's getting that at a record pace. They're already talking about drawing down the troops this year. It doesn't make sense to bring the troops home and then have the terrorists just take over the country agian, making all the hard work and sacrifice worth nothing. I think it's safe to say we ALL would like to have them home, but I don't think we should until the country can stand on it's own.

Answer 5

you dont sound like you have a very tight rein on current affairs

but anyway there are more reasons than that 'oil' or finding 'WMDs'

Bush has liberated IRaq but there is more than just doing away with the authoritaran regime there, now even more important, they have to ensure that a system of government are strong enough to support themselves first before Bush can decide to pull out

should he pull out now, all that 2500 american lives lost will really be for nothing for quickly the terrorists wil overwhlem the weak iraqi security forces

so support Bush and always be aware of what you read from the papers

papers are seldom objective

Answer 6

"merdenoms" has summed it up beautifully. Too may people near by want this government to fail. If we leave, it surely will. It is impossible to say how long we will have to be there, but I will say this... The US has NEVER left any country that it has invaded (for whatever reason). We still have bases in Germany, Japan, and Italy for example. I bet we will have permanent bases built there and will always have troops there, just not as many as we have now, when it is no longer considered a "war zone", whenever that will be.

Answer 7

No surprise that you do not know about this - what do you know?
If we left before they were strong enough to defend their new Democratic goverment, they would be overpowered in a month & all the work & deaths would be for nothing. Any intelligent person would realize the importance of training & protecting the new Democratic & newly elected goverment until they can defend themselves. Intelligent is the key word.

We did find peices of weapons of mass destruction, unfornately their are a number of countries willing to allow them to cross their borders & find them from US.

Answer 8

Because there is this little place called IRAN that is right next to Iraq. Well Iran will do anything to cause chaos and gain power. So logically if a country is wide open for taking they will take it and place it under their despotism.

After all who supplied the 13000 missles to Hezbollah? Hmmm oh yeah IRAN!

Answer 9

I was going to actually take this question seriously, but it's just two obvious this girl has her mind made up and no explanation can ever satisfy her.

I was also going to suggest she read a newspaper ... but then I realized that might take time away from the more important things in life ... like getting her news from blogs.

Instead ... I'll just take the two points.

Answer 10

Because if we leave now, the already raging civil war between Shi'as and Sunnis will explode into total war. Whether we're there for right or wrong, we're now stuck , and it is a LOT like Viet Nam at this point. I remember Viet Nam.