Americans: How do you feel about the war in Iraq? And why do you feel this way?

Question

Americans: How do you feel about the war in Iraq? And why do you feel this way? Do you have friends or family memebers who disagree with you? How do you resolve it?

Answer 1

i've always been against war, especially since Iraq never really did anything to REALLY provoke the U.S (i.e. something similar to pearl harbor). i've never been a fan of having thousands and thousands of people dying just because the president wants our country to look good.

since hearing that the real motive for going into the Iraq war was keeping an eye on Iran and their nuclear weapons, i've never been more against the war and President Bush. he makes citizens think that our soldiers are dying to fight for other people's freedom; yet why can't we be fighting for our OWN freedom and our OWN rights, such as the right to gay marriage, abortion, and everything else?

i try not to think about the war. it just depresses me. it's not a good subject for debating either, because no one is really "right" and everyone just ends up attempting to push their beliefs onto others.

Answer 2

The United States of America have been in conflicts, wars and operations that do nothing more the flex the muscle that we have, for years. Iraq has been just as much about showing the world that we still have the bigget biceps, as it has been about oil or any other pretense we might be there under. What about WMD or terrorists? Let me tell you this, extremist dictators who have a history of crimes against humanity don't just change overnight and decide that they no longer desire death and destruction. Just because we didnt catch them with their hand in the cookie jar doesn't mean we didn't do ourselves and the people in Iraq a great service. Then people will say that many Iraqi's don't even want us there. Think about what that means for a second. People in Iraq have the ability to take to the streets, everyday people get to voice their opinions, and they get to go home with their heads still firmly on their shoulders, if that doesn't speak volumes than I don't know what does. I'll tell you what remember Japan, around the 1940's. We didn't send troops, we didn't drag out 4 or 5 years of conflict, we didn't even drop thousands of bombs. We dropped 1 bomb. Problem over. Which way do you prefer?
Now we could be like Canada or the Swiss and have a military force that we do nothing with, but from the time we were firing musketts from behind trees, we have deserved every freedom, opportunity, and resource that we have forcibly taken. That, unfortunately, is how this world works, and it doesn't matter how many one-sided documentaries Michael Moore makes or how many benefits Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon speak at, it's not going to change a damn thing.
By the way, "what about the troops"? The day their enlistment started, the US govt handed them a rifle, after that they should have had no question what desicion they made for themselves.
As for family members who may have different opinions than me, I don't try to change them or resolve it. People can agree or disagree with me and it doesn't really matter. That's one of the freedoms we forcibly took from the British back in the 1700's

Answer 3

I feel that it's a crock of sh!t
I feel that way because I knew it was a lie from the first time it was ever brought up. WMDs, helped in 9/11, nuclear weapons, clear and imminent danger, etc., etc., etc.... all bare-faced lies, and Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice fully knew it.

Colin Powell was forced to tell lies that he knew were untrue and disburse "facts" that were unverifiable and shaky at best. His personal worst day in public service was likely when he had to approach the UN on Feb.6, 2003, just five weeks before the war. He had to use ten year old charts and photos and try to say they were our most current, up-to-date intelligence. His speech itself was plagiarized directly from a twenty-six year old college student's term paper, with all punctuational and grammatical errors intact. Powell was far too good a soldier, statesman, and humanitarian, oddly enough, to ever have to suffer that.

Which is probably why he left the administration. Undoubtedly, he sleeps a lot better at night.

Now, three short years later, Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, and Rice are saying they didn't say things that I have them saying on video, right there for anyone to see and hear. I'm sure countless other Americans have the same tapes, or at least remember them clearly. Months worth of it, all lies, and now they're lying about their lies. "Faulty intelligence" is the closest thing they've ever said to the truth, and that's only true because of the unintended double meaning. Boy, is that ever true!

Most of my family agrees. My father doesn't. We resolve it by not bringing it up around him. It's our respect for him.

I have a nephew and a very close friend's son over there. I had another nephew there, but he's home now. I'm not sure what they think because they're no longer totally sure what they think. They've been there a long time and they've each been home for awhile, then sent back. It sounds like they aren't always told as much over there as what we know here and that upsets them. I can't say I blame them.

We Americans feel strongly one way or the other about the war. There is very little middle ground. We resolve it the way we seem to resolve everything these days. By fighting. So far, it's almost entirely verbal fighting. Our civil war isn't as bloody as the one we "gave" Iraq. Just a bunch of very p!ssed-off people.

Strange term, "civil" war. There's nothing civil about it. The phrase is as empty as "conservative values."

Answer 4

I feel that we were lied to repeatedly and deliberately in order to rally us into wars of aggression that benifit a handfull of wealthy elites. My father is an avid Republican and we had many arguments as the Iraq war was about to start. What I have discovered is that you must introduce your arguments gently and with as little passion and as many facts as possible. He has recently started to come around on GWB as everyone will when this war keeps getting worse and worse. But he will not acknowledge any of the criminal undertakings of our government. No one has an answer for what happened to WTC 7 on september the 11th and no one can tell you why the media didn't report on the Bush family selling all their Enron stock right before the collapse, yet they still adamantly hold on to their view that the president must be a moral upstanding person simply because he was elected president. This attitude has to change and I fear that only the collapse of the dollar will wake America up. It happened to every country (Germany, Britan, Rome) that tried to use a standing army to embrace the strategy of empire and it will happen to the US too. The only thing that has yet to be decided is if the central bankers that fund ALL WARS from both sides will get away unscathed with even more money yet again.

Answer 5

I feel this war was an extremely poor decision because it was based on lies from the Bush administration and now millions of our soldiers and millions of Iraqi citizens have to pay a terrible price for this. We have accomplished nothing but making more enemies and now we are at more of a danger from terrorist attacks than before. We have lost face as a fair democratic society because of the spin offs of the war, IE Guantanamo Bay and Abu Grahib prison. We also keep getting promises of a reduction of troops that have never happened and we have no plan to get out. Plus, we can't even afford to properly arm and protect our troops because of the enormous cost of this war; we have the hugest debt ever accumulated by one presidential administration. We would be much better off as a nation without this war, but George W and his cronies were just looking for an excuse to invade Iraq so George W could finish the job for his daddy of toppling Saddam..

Answer 6

I honestly don't understand why we went in there. Surely the administration had some researchers who advised the president concerning the long-term relations between the Shite majority and the Sunni minority.

If we wanted to bring democracy and freedom to the people, would giving control to the majority, the Shites, really accomplish the freedom part? You are looking at a theocracy there. These two groups have been fighting for millinea, and getting one jerk out of power hasn't accomplished anything except for destablizing the country.

I think that Americans can only see their own idea of democracy. It is difficult for us to believe that some individuals might actually want to live under a theocracy.

Also, if the administration was briefed on the history of the region, then how on earth could there have ever been an exit plan?

I don't like the spin on this--freedom, democracy, protecting our country. I smell a lie, or several of them, and I don't understand why we are doing what we are doing.

Answer 7

The war was a bad idea. The situation is on the brink of total collapse due to bad planning and poor leadership.

The US is now stuck there until Iraq can build a stable society.

Pretty stupid foreign policy blunder.

The way to resolve it is to have the Iraqis develop their own security and then pull out as soon as possible.

Answer 8

The war in Iraq started as war on terror. It has completely cut out any further attacks on U.S. soil. Saddam had wmd but moved them to Syria shortly before we sent our troops over. Saddam was also brutalizing his own people. His regime was toppled but some of his loyalists (terrorists) banded together and have interrupted the democracy of the Iraqi people. That is why we are still over there. The presence of U.S. troops in the MIddle East keeps the terrorists at bay. I have a son in law who is a Marine and I am so proud of him. He backs our President completely, with no questions. Too bad some of these morons in the United States, who, by the way, aren't even serving in the military would rather sit back and condemn our President. I wish they would take their sorry asses to some other country and live but they are too afraid to, after all, they are protected here in America by none other than our President.

Answer 9

i don't know how we got from "the war in afghanistan" which was about al-qaeda and osama bin laden, to "the war in iraq" which was about saddam hussein supposed having nuclear power, which we later found out, oops, he didnt' actually have the ability to blow us up. I don't really understand what the war in iraq is about, i mean at this point, it's helping them set up their government and, i don't know, catching all of saddam's supporters. Was it a "removing the dictator" kind of thing/

i also think we should get outof iraq. I mean, now what pres. dubbya is saying is that "it would be a disgrace to withdraw from iraq, and it would insult the people whose relatives have died in iraq." lots of people who died in iraq didn't support the war anyway. People confuse supporting the pres with supporting the troops. you think the troops wants to be there? no. supporting the troops is making them feel okay while they're there and then sending them back. Supporting the pres is agreeing with his reasoning and stuff, and i don't. I mean, i think we need to get out of iraq as soon as possible.

Answer 10

OK so this is the big church day in America

How about G-d said Babylon will be the habitation of "doleful creatures" for ever.

There are numerous passages in the Bible about Babylon/Iraq being cursed forever.

So if G-d curses the place why would Christian George want to deliver it from G-d's wrath?