Hey, Everyone what do think about what is happening in Iraq?

Answer 1

What does this have to do with BOOKS?

Answer 2

It is terrible, and things could even get worse before finally things will turn around. the fall of Saddan Hussein has left a power vacuum and the new government is not yet in full control of the country. Saddam Hussein regime before hand had to commit quite a few massacres in order to prevent the three major etnic groups from getting at other throat(Sunies, Shites and kurds), and that is what is happening today, while the Al Queda terrorists are on the run. If we look at our globe the areas under democratique rule are getting larger and larger, the trend is in thadirection, and watch Cuba, Vietnam, North Korea crumbling down like dominos in a not too distant future, as China is quitly doing, let us not say a word about that, they don't like to admit it that we are right, but they do love our prosprity.
Probably in a year or two things will go back to normal, and democrazy will flourish in that country too. We just need to stay the course and not run away from responsabilities, for freedom in my opinion is the most noble principle really worth fighting for for, its rewads far outstrips in the long run, the pain and suffering that we need to go through to achieve it. there are not other substitutes for freedom and democrazy for only under its conditions a human being is able to produce the best of its potencial, as our short story has revealed to us.

Answer 3

First, I think we all have to admit that our government and the mainstream media are keeping us misinformed, deceived, and generally uninformed about what is going on in Iraq. We get daily reports on the number of US soldiers who have died in Iraq, but it is impossible to get even sound estimates as to how many Iraqi civilians--women, children, the elderly--have been killed or wounded as "collateral damage." We are not given enough information that we can even imagine what is must be like now--and have been like for the past three years--to live on the streets, in the villages and countryside of Iraq. We are rarely, if ever, accurately informed of what progress is being made, if any, to restore the suprastructure of Iraq; e.g., electricity, highways and airports, hospitals, schools, places of worship, shopping centers, food delivery--not to mention industrial productivity, providing jobs for the citizens. All that oil that was to cover the expense of rebuilding Iraq--exactly what has happened or is happening to it? Why is the US, over three years after the invasion, still providing the funding for what rebuilding is going on?

What do we know for sure about what is happening in Iraq? (1) None of the reasons originally given for our unilateral, preemptive, imperialistic warfare has proved to be ture. (2) Halliburton has made a ton of money, much of it unaccounted for in external auditing and all derived from contracts made without competitive bidding; in other words, Richard Cheney's company (and others like it or akin to it, probably) has profited immensely from the occupation. (3) We don't know how many prisoners are being persecuted and tortured nor how many innocent young women and their families are being raped, terrorized, and slaughtered by US troops. Not many, we hope and assume, but the few we hear about, and the fact that investigations are often delayed, not reported quickly nor accurately, and never examine the responsibility of higher officials in charge of the occupying forces nor the Pentagon--all these circumstances make us suspicious. (4) The fact that the US has not been able to gain nor maintain control, any more than Russia could in Afghanistan some years ago, emboldens other countries to defy US authority; for example, Iran, North Korea, and who knows how many others. We are fairly certain that the Hezbollah and Hammas in Lebanon and Palestine are being encouraged and supported by Islamic jihadists, esp. in Iran. (5) We know that a country that was once virtually closed to Al-Quaeda and other terrorist organizations has now become a hotbed of insurgents, eager to oppose the occupying forces and their governments and citizens all over the globe. (6) We know that the costs of the invasion and occupation have caused our annual deficits and our national debt to skyrocket, leaving a monstrous burden on our children and grandchildren. (7) More and more it's becoming apparent that outside forces cannot dislodge or overcome the insurgents, prevent civil war, create self-reliant or honest police and national guards, nor ultimately guarantee the survival or disposition of a democratic government.

So why did we invade Iraq? Really. Why do we continue to occupy it?

Now, that's the real question!

Answer 4

What's happening in Iraq that hasn't been happening for the past three or four years? Now, what is happening between Hezbollah and Israel is what is up. And I applaud Israel for kicking a little @ss instead on tolerating terrorism.

Answer 5

It is a crime that our soldiers are being used as cannon fodder in Iraq (in other words they are dying for nothing). Where is Congress, Bush should be tried for treason. He put our forces at risk and lied about everything.

Answer 6

Iraq's situation is very terrible. its almost civil war there.

Answer 7

wrong i say

americans are downright ignorant, go thru yahoo answers and see for urself!!

u goto someone's country and rape their women !

stuupid americans

Answer 8

I think Bush should stay out of everybodys business........