Can the Iraq war ever be won?

Answer 1

Never. Put Saddam back in power, at least he knew how to hold it all together. There are too many religous, cultural and ethnic groups that hate each other over there for democracy to work with the borders and gov defined as it is. They hate the US police force there now and they hate each other enough to kill themselves up, now thats what I call determination. Do you hate anyone so much that you'd be willing to blow yourself up to hurt them or a group of people like them? Thats what we are dealing with, there is no getting control of that situation.

Answer 2

No, you cannot win a gurella war.
We can control the ground, we can maintain a military force there for a hundred years and never control the people minds.

The People of Iraq are the only ones that can end the violence there. It will not truly end until we leave. Not the cut and Run of President Bush but more of a declare victory and go home.

Answer 3

I thought the war was over? Isn't that what the big banner Bush stood under on the deck of that aircraft carrier said?

That war can't be won. It's why the British consolidated the groups that make up Iraq, named it Iraq and buggered out of it a long time ago.

You can't fight for another man's freedom

Answer 4

I'm afraid not this is a civil war based on religious and political rivalries, We are just in the way. It would be best to let them shoot it out and then recognize the winner and go home. The Kurds will survive,There forces are the most organized and experienced and most importantly motivated to get there own country Kurdistan. We can point to Kurdistan and say we won we have a democracy in the middle east. It's a half truth but truth enough to declare victory and go home.

Answer 5

If we would throw Political Correctness out and get down to business we'd be done and over with it. That is the problem. We are playing a war based on spot polling data and not military objectives.

We need to get serious about it.

at that I think we are in fact "Winning" the war, save for a few pockets of whack jobs.

Fact is we were in Post VE day Europe and for 10 Years were fighting nazi resistance. People have very short term memory and most are not historians.. The is a global war Iraq is one battlefield in this war. We need to face that as fact. Fundamentalist Islamo Fascists are intent on killing people who get in their way of islamic conversion.

According to this crop of islamist you are an infidel and thus an enemy. The bed of this sect of Islam is Iran, time is coming for them as well.

Islam intends to enslave people that don't buy into their brand of religion. Women and children are treated as dogs. We have a responsibility to raise the bar. And if war is necessary to do that then so be it.

Answer 6

Perhaps the man who knew how to control the disparate communities in Iraq is now on trial for the way he did it? Of course he and his party were cruel and unjust but we should remember that all these things were known about when he was useful to the US and other Western countries. I believe an senior American politician said during the Iran/Iraq war referring to Saddam,"He's a bastard but he's our bastard !"

Answer 7

nope...it is a hopeless cause and we shouldn't be there...when the people you are trying to "help" do not want you to "help" them and view you as occupiers then you can't win a war because the war was a war of imperialist aggression in the first place...in short I take it back there is a terrible way to end the war and that is total annihilation of Iraq...that should not be done.

Answer 8

Here's what's REALLY going on in Iraq!...
http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/iraq.htm

Answer 9

It was won, about 3 years ago. What we now have is an occupation, while the locals fight among themselves. Occupations can't be either won or lost -- although one can lose a lot of people while maintaining it. They can only be maintained or ended.

Answer 10

only if iraq splitt to 3 countries then we can control the bad sunni one