Do you think that the U.S.presence in Iraq is the root cause of it's rising violence???

Answer 1

I think you are better to clean up your own backyard first before cleaning up someone elses.

The United States is a Great Country, the people are great but your government under the Bush Administration has some of you so blinded you don't even know what the truth is anymore.

Truth is you are 2.8 trillion dollars more in debt from the Bush Administration. The United States has a total debt of 8.4 trillion or $28,000 per citizen an increase of $9,600 over the last six years.

Either some of you are living in a dream world which is called LA LA Land and don't keep up with the current affairs of your own country. The only ones gaining from the Iraq War is Corporate America and the big Oil Companies. The rest of you peons they really could give a Fat Rats *** about.

Answer 2

We are not at the root, that root lies in their own ethnic/religious/political differences. But, we exacerbated the situation by landing on Iraq with both huge feet and leaving their government in a shambles without a viable plan to address the resulting confusion and rivalries. Conventional wisdom says if we withdraw abruptly the country will completely implode and the victor will be whoever is left standing. If we stay, and keep trying to step inbetween the feuding factions, we run the risk of overt involvement from Iran and Syria and escalated fatalities both within our military and in the general population. Lack of planning and bad military decisions have led to this Catch-22 we are now caught in. The violence grows worse every day, we can't keep up our current activities/military action without major change, the failure of our "plan" so far is excrutiatingly obvious. We have become almost completely ineffective when it comes to controlling the violence in Iraq.

It makes me think of a movie I caught today: Butch Cassidy/Sundance Kid. When they're being chased down by the posse, Sundance says to Butch "Whatever you come up with is fine with me, but whatever you come up with it better be NOW." That's how crucial time has become. We can't pretend that civil war isn't beginning to rage in Iraq any longer.

Answer 3

No, I think the media coverage available now because we are in Iraq is merely showing us on a daily basis the "rising" violence.

Before our presence in Iraq, mass graves, routine murder of political dissidents, gassing of his own people - these things, when reported at all, were back page blips in the main media.

Anyway, how can we possibly be a "root cause" - these factions have been murdering each other long before we even became a country?

Answer 4

NO, these people have been at war with themselves for thousands of years. Its not really a surge in violence, just the media being able to report it on a global scale.

Answer 5

No, the cause of the violence is terrorists killing innocent civilians. Thank Iran and Syria.

Answer 6

No, I think you have a society there that lives in conflict with themselves and everyone around them. Our presence probably doesn't add to it, but it is not the root cause.

Answer 7

No. The root cause is that they hate each other.

Answer 8

No the democratic party. The terrorists are smart enough to figure out to divide and conquer. United we stand divided we fall. I guess the liberals want us to fall

Answer 9

putting up a defense against al qaeda instead of running as in nancy p.s campaign..you bet your behind pal...anytime you stand up to a terrorist theres a price to pay...its called jihad...understand?

Answer 10

the root? probably not. but the presence isn't helping.