Why can’t America leave Iraq?

Question

America wants to leave Iraq. The insurgents want America to leave Iraq.
The Iraqis want the Americans to leave Iraq. I don’t understand what’s going on? If the insurgents cooled it for 12 months then America would leave. It seems to me that the insurgents really don’t want America to leave. Maybe they are just having too much fun.

Answer 1

ask the iraqis what they want! NO REALLY GO TO IRAQ AND LITERALLY ASK THEM WHAT THEY WANT!!! there is a civil war going on there and bombs going off every 5 minutes. we can only leave once the iraqis can take control. which is taking a VERY LONG TIME! many of the insurgents are NOT even iraqi! they should leave first!

Answer 2

America can't - and won't - leave Iraq until Dick Cheney has a rock-solid, iron-clad arrangement in place to acquire all of that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands. With the help of the new government (which he helped install), Cheney and his best friends at Exxon-Mobil will get richer and richer and richer, regardless of how many people die in the process.
If Bush believes we'll be out of Iraq by 2009, why is America building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad, overlooking the modest headquarters of the new Iraqi government?Don't kid yourself - we'll be there for decades, or until every drop of OIL is sucked out of that land.
PREDICTION: Before spring, 2007, we'll also invade Iran for the very same reason: all those rich fields of easily-accessible OIL.
The insurgents will turn this into a Civil War before the end of this year. They know we're only there to steal all their OIL. The only people that don't know the real truth is the American citizens who have been brainwashed by Shawn Hannity, Ann Colture, Bill O'Reilly, and Rush Limbaugh, the Republican Party's own Nazi-inspired propagandists. -RKO-

Answer 3

The outside forces fighting American troops in Iraq are delighted to have us there. It is a dream opportunity for an asymmetrical operation. A heavy mechanized force with a soft logistical tail tied down in a hostile urban environment. It does not get much better than that. The local insurgents would love to have us out so they could sort out there own power struggle. The American Government is fearful of losing face and providing yet more evidence that we should have not invaded in the first place. The American Military establishment is concerned about the loss of expensive equipment, the fall in moral, a resurgence in the Vietnam syndrome and the safe withdrawal of a large force from a hostile environment. The grunts on the ground do not want to be the last man to die in a useless war.

Answer 4

maybe if you would have payed a closer attention to the iraqi war, we are not there to eliminate the insurgents, but to aid the iraqi country in becoming a democratic govenment. and the insurgents are only slowing the process down, and we cant leave the country until giving them a stable gov. or else we ended in the same spot that we started with.

Answer 5

We never should have went, but if we leave there will be a civil war of devastating magnitude, the four tribes will battle until one is left, then they will come sttraight for america, Sadam was a monster but he kept them in check, we should have left the fuc#ers alone. We have to have a coverup fpr Bushs' real plan anyway, for his dam# gas line. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 and they dont have W.M.D.'s Bush is a liar.Don't blame the soldiers they are only doing there jobs' we must support them and condem Bush, he's the problem, Nothing about war is fun.

Answer 6

Because of the oil, silly.

The Iraqi security forces have stood up (they now have 300,000). But the Americans have not stood down (in fact, our troop levels are higher now).

The insurgents would not be there if the Americans had not invaded. There was no need for an insurgency before...there was an excellent system of power checks and balances in the Middle East that the current gang of chickenhawks disrupted.

Answer 7

Because we aren't done there yet. How do you know that Iraqis want us to leave? Not all of them do. Of course on TV you will see a couple of them not supporting the war but do you actually think they would put supporters of the war on the TV?

Answer 8

No, I think even if the insurgents ceased for a while. America would still be in there. In other words as long as Bush is President. Were going to be occupying that country.

Answer 9

Unfortunately, we've created such a mess there, that to leave would result in Iraq falling into terrorists hands. This war has already inflamed the terrorists and now we've handed them a country. Believe me, most of us never wanted the U.S. to be there in the first place.

Answer 10

For all of those that say "we should not be there in the first place" answer this question for me? What should we have done? All I hear from left wings is complaints and bush bashing but never any solutions. OFFER A SOLUTION OR SHUT UP!