Do you still support war in Iraq?

Answer 1

nobody who is sane supports a war. sane people support troops who have to do what needs to be done and wil do what they can to help them complete that mission and kill all our enemies. nobody carries around "yay war!" signs. I support our warriors and hope that our stupid politicians would get out of the way and let them fight this crusade instead of sitting aroud bagdad waiting to get blown up.

Answer 2

As a retired U.S serviceman who was around from the tail end of Nam through the end of Desert Storm, who comes from a family with a tradition of U.S. military service that goes back to the Revolutionary War, and who has a daughter on active duty now, I do not and never have supported this war. I mention all that because I'm tired of people telling me I don't understand what it's like to be in the military and have no idea what our troops are going through, which is the usual response opposing Bush's oil war. This war was poorly conceived, poorly planned, and fordoomed to failure, more, this is not Monday morning quarterbacking, people all over the country, especially in the military, were saying that before we went in. The function of the military is kill people and destroy property, that is all. Any objective that cannot be accomplished by those means is not a valid use of the military. Our original goal was to remove Saddam from office, that we did with no problem. What current goal do we have that can be solved by saturation bombing, invasion by troops, and the systematic destruction of the infra-structure and ability to wage war of the enemy nation? For that matter, where is the enemy nation? Iraqi nationals are killing our troops because they see us as an imperialist foreign power unlawfully occupying their homeland in an attempt to sieze control of their oil supplies. Whether or not that is a valid viewpoint of the situation is irrelevant, it's what they believe, and what will continue to guide their actions. In Viet Nam the enemy made no attempt to wage a war of conquest, they simply made it a war of attrition untill continuing the conflict became politically untenable and the government had to give up. If our leaders have forgotten that, be assured the Iraqis have not. They've got plenty of people, plenty of supplies, and all the time in the world, they just have to wait us out. International approval of the U.S. in general and of Bush in particular are at an all time low; Bush's approval rating now is lower than Clinton's was during the impeachment, and what is anyone doing about it? What, for that matter, have we actually accomplished so far in Iraq that was worth the lives of over 3,000 U.S. servicefolk? How is it supporting our troops not to oppose the needless waste of their lives in a conflict with no clear cut military goal?

Answer 3

This isn't a 3 hour picture show, when all problems are resolved by curtain call, this is the real thing! The first one that blinks, loses.
Unfortunately, the enemy realizes the lack of commitment in the US and they play it for all it's worth, through the liberal media who only report the negative aspects of this war, through the democratic party that would rather partner up with the devil than admit that GWB is right, through the colleges and universities that seem to hire draft dodging faculty who teach nothing constructive.

The fact is, this war must be won, or we will be back to protecting are assets on this side of the ocean, and frankly I see nothing enjoyable about that idea. So wake up nimrod, we're in this for the long haul. no matter who is sitting in the oval office.

Answer 4

I don't support the war in Iraq never have. I do support the war in Afghanistan, remember that on, we were going to get Bin Laden. Somehow we made a left turn and went after non-existent WMD's in Iraq. I said two things then-Georgie wasn't the one to lead us into war with al-Queada and there were no weapons of mass destruction-Saddam was just Sabre rattling. Bush says he doesn't care about Bin Laden now and the Taliban re-surging in strength. We never should have went into Iraq, we should have stayed in Afghanistan and finished the job, Instead we've squandered $300,000,000,000 and 2500+ lives of our best men and women on a war that did not need to be fought. This money and lives would have better used if we would of stayed on task in Afghanistan and stabilized that country and helped our own people in New Orleans and the gulf coast. Instead we are obligated to rebuild two countries, our military is stretched so thin its ready to break. And my prediction that once we finally pull out both countries will immediately descend into total chaos and anarchy. Strangely reminiscent of Vietnam.

Answer 5

Why not support the war in Iraq? Our troops are killing those who seek to do us harm on their own turf. My dad has been in Iraq several times as a private security contractor and he is doing a job to ensure Iraqi people get food and medicine by providing protection for convoys. My dad went to the first Gulf War and said we didn't finish the job then and hopes we finish it this time.

Answer 6

If you call the present insurgency "war", then of course not.

But of course I support the multi-nation occupying forces in their struggle to make Iraq a safer place. To not support them would be to let the country be reduced to civil war.

Answer 7

First of all it is not a war, it is an occupation. It may be a war of wills or ideals but in terms of actual military language it is not an actual war in the traditional sense. Second of all I support the troops w/o hesitation. I do not support the flagrant lie of a mission in Iraq. I do however support the mission in Afganistan, or at least the utopic idea of what should be or could be, if we were truly taking the high road there.
And for all of the diehard christian conservative war mongering moral whore who do think that Iraq is justified i say this to that: GO THERE YOU FU#%ING HYPOCRITES AND SHOW US HOW MUCH YOU BELIVE IN THE CAUSE, OTHERWISE STFU.

Answer 8

I support our troops. I want them to come home safely. That being said, I never supported the war. I didn't support the reasons or the logic behind it, and I honestly can't believe that anyone could still support the war itself (this is DIFFERENT from supporting the troops, by the way.)

That being said, what pisses me off even more is that the US gov't is forcing our soldiers to fight with one hand tied behind their backs. Now that we're there, let's get the stuff we need and get it over with - let's not waste time and lose unnecessary lives by keeping troop levels so low, undercutting funding for armor, etc. Do you know that many troops had to pay for body armor out of their own pockets? Or rummaging through dumps for armor for their Humvees? This is while the government continues to endorse tax breaks for the wealthy, by the way. There is NOT a money problem in this country. There is a WEALTH DISTRIBUTION problem, and that's what's killing our soldiers.

Terrorists are not killing our soldiers. Our own government and its idiocy is killing our soldiers.

Get in with the strength we have, get it done, get out.

Answer 9

i do NOT agree with the war in Iraq because my problem is that our problem is with their government and we Americans and Iraqi people are innocent civilians are risking their lives fighting when we should just let the (Government) do their jobs to bring our troops home instead of this`1/2 year off and tax payers waste their money paying lazy people who make dumb speeches to lead us to a better path

Answer 10

There is no "war" in Iraq being fought by American troops.
It is a "military action."
The last "declared" war was in 1942.
And NO,I do not and have never supported the neo-Nazi tactics of this administration.