Are we Americans ready to admit the Iraqi 'war' is a HUGE mistake that we may never resolve?

Question

If we can put aside partisanship and do an honest analysis without casting blame on a person or a party. Will we determine whether it was wise or not, win-able or not, are we helping or hurting Iraqi's?

Answer 1

Huge mistake is correct. What could possibly be wise about the whole exercise? Wise to put the shiites in power thus strengthening Iran? Wise to kill 150,000 Iraqis? Wise to put our soldiers in the middle of a civil war? Is it wise to execute Saddam thus heightening the sectarian violence? Nothing about it is wise.

Answer 2

As the saying goes, "hindsight is 20/20". How soon people forget what life was like under Saddam's dictatorship. Thousands died as a direct result of this lunatic and his clan. Women were treated like cattle, the poverty level was through the roof, there was no freedom of the press. The infrastucture barely worked, all the money from oil exports was being diverted directly to Saddam's bank accounts, torture was viewed as a sport by his son Uday, The average Iraqi lived in fear of being taken away in the dead of night and tortured/killed for no reason. Saddam was paranoid about conpiracies, He had no qualms about gassing hundreds of Kurds in the north, he was working on a nuclear enrichment program, and vowed to exterminate Israel This much we know.

People seem to think the United States went into this without a good reason, and that George Bush was gleefully enjoying the death of U.S. soldiers. NO dicision to go to war is ever made lightly. A mistake? As always, this will be debated for a hundred years. Did we expect too much in the way of gratitude by the average Iraqi for getting rid of a murderous dictator? Yes. Did we asuume too much in the area of the so-called 'insurgents"? That Iraq would come together inder the banner of peace and democracy? Yes. There are many things we know now that could not have been known then.

It is impossible to know what the 'man in the street' really thinks about us being there because the country is too fractured by civil unrest and suicide bombers to have any sort of honest election as to whether or not they WANT us there. For any Iraqi to become a police officer is almost certain suicide, the 'insurgents' kill them at every opportunity.

On the plus side, the things you DON'T hear about....in spite of the war, you really should consider reading some success stories. Unlike what we hear in the media, bombings, soldiers dying, bloody battles, it's enlightening to read this document found at http://www.usaid.gov/iraq/accomplishments/success_stories_0206.html I hope you will.

Answer 3

"cut and run liberals" **** you conservative, it was a huge mistake. Afghanistan not so much but Iraq yes. The democracy we installed there is only for oil, putting in a democracy is a good thing but it will never happen. Or at least not yet. They still can not decide on it without killing each other.

Answer 4

A lot of Americans are still in denial about the war in Iraq. Bush has played a Jedi Mind Trick on the Country that has stood for democracy, freedom, justice, and diversity...

Answer 5

in retrospect we can see now that the US never should have invaded Iraq. Afghanistan was okay because it was a direct response to 9/11. But the invasion of Iraq was based on false intelligence and the premise of a "preemptive war."

Answer 6

I think a lot of people have now realized what a big mistake it was. That's the reason why the war is now so unpopular and why Bush's approval ratings are in the toilet.

Answer 7

Only you Libs will come to that conclusion, the war in Iraq was a huge, brilliantly concocted scheme to entice the terrorist there so we do not have to fight them in the streets of American You cut and run liberals would like to see America destroyed and will try every ploy to accomplish it. It was difficult but i did manage to put political partisanship aside long enough to answer your partisan question.

Answer 8

The voter has already done that. However, this administration can hardly wait to put the blame on the newly elected Dems who are finally going to wind down this war. The "defeat" will be put on them.

Answer 9

After the fall of Afghanistan and Iraq the war was over.
Something extra ordinary happened beyond the control of living human kind on planet earth.
Everyone was at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there.
Those boys and girls still serving out there exposed they were all at loss and blurr on what went wrong out there in planet of apes.
Were able to trace the faults having stumbled on the missing key in decoding the missing x-files that expose the mystery of us-911.
But everyone out there were at loss and blurr in throwing pots and pans in bashing up one another in planet of apes.
What went wrong out there is over the loss of our creator's universal gifts of life vital for the survival and advancement of living human kind that was lost with time on planet earth.
What happened out there is not an ordinary war but it has got something to do over the loss of the missing x-files.
The missing x-files is the answer to solving the blunders and slip-ups with human errors created back in the past.
So far no one has hit the home-run with our creator's universal gifts of life with all the answers in the missing x-files.
Why it is vital for our own survival to trace it on planet earth.
Someone out there tried it with Mr. Big Brother in tracing it got themselves kick on the butts by Mr. Big Brother and how Iraq war was created in planet of apes.
The best public information available from bookstore when someone else hit the home-run in outsmart Mr. Big Brother on planet earth.
Poor Indiana Jones with Raiders of the Lost Ark were still digging up graveyards sweating out under the hot sun in the desert of the middle-east in planet of apes.
At loss with the exact location of the Garden of Eden on planet earth.
Ya' hoo in hitting the home -run.

Answer 10

its wasnt a mistake . the mistake is you for listening to the politicians that dont know nothingand the news that reports only the bad things going on over there. i done 2 tours in iraq. they are more free than they have ever been . and most thank us for it. the others loyal to saddam house and aid terrorist. they mostly kill theyer own people . if we where not there than the terrorist would be here in the states killing innocent people.we cant pull out if we do before the job is done than there will be attacks on our own soil we took the fight to them. so you can live here in peace.