Why do so many people think that we're losing the war in Iraq?

Question

We have completely dismantled a tyrannical regime, annihilated or captured its entire army, built a democratic government where there has never been one, suppressed all-out civil war thus far, and killed countless insurgents, laid waste to the Al Qaida's chain of command, compromising numerous terrorists secrets in the process, all with one of the smallest casualty counts in the history of the world (let alone the United States). How do you then conclude that we're losing the war?

Are all of our leaders in the federal government lilly livered little women? Who doubts that we could crush the entire terrorist network and all of its supporting states if we focused all of our energy and resources in this enterprise?

To Bush = Satan

This new regime is no less effective than the fledgling U.S. government was at this point of its development.
Plenty of Iraqis have died. This is war. That happens in war.
Iraq is not in civil war because according to General Casey, the violence is relegated to a hand full of provinces out of 18. That's hardly a civil war.
Concerning Al-Qaeda, when you are fighting your enemy it usually helps to be in the same place they are. But I can't expect someone like you to understand such things.
Iraq supported terrorist organizations financially and logistically. Not only that, but Iraq is just the first step in the war against a broader Islamic extremist threat. Iran is the real goal, and we have them in a choke hold between Afghanistan and Iraq.

To Meh

Did you ever go to school?


To sscam2001

What do you mean our military is not made for occupying foreign lands? If our military isn't made for it, then what branch of government is? I wasn't aware that there was a Department of Foreign Occupation. By occupying Iraq they ARE protecting our borders. Why is that so hard to understand? Rather than fighting terrorists here in America, we are anticipating their moves, and forcing them to fight us on their turf.
These young men and women are supposed to do whatever their president asks them to, and if you've ever talked to any one of them you'll know that they are proud and happy to do it. That is perhaps the best case for Iraq, the fact that the
very men and women who have the most to lose in this war support it whole-heartedly. By the way, who in the heck is making windfall profits off of the war?

Oh yeah, I forgot: the sensationalist media. They'll report anything if it will make more people listen.

To dubbbed

Last I checked, we hadn't lost almost a million people to a nuclear bomb. You moron.


To cork

This is exactly the answer to my question. Propoganda. This nonsese that we are losing the war has nothing to do with the reality on the ground, it's propoganda being spread on the one hand by the terrorists and insurgents to weaken our resolve, and on the other hand by the Democrats for their own political gain.
Notice our subject did not provide one shred of reasonable evidence to support his "arguments".
The only way we'll lose this war is if we give up.

To Sapace monkey

You're right, it's not like that anymore. Iraq had some of the lousiest, most outdated infrastructure in the

world before we came along. Now their infrastructure is better than ever.

Your entire problem is that you do read the news, and you believe every word of it. Most news outlets are run

by flaming liberals.

Yes, the Gulf War had less casualties, but we also had almost no boots on the ground.

And where is your evidence that militias "control the country"? Like I said, a huge majority of Iraq is

tranquil. Source? The commanding general of coalition forces in Iraq. You can't argue with that.

To Justgoodfolk

Congradulations, you've managed to slip your democratic bilge in to this conversation by giving an answer completely impertinent to the subject of my question, using an article built on a false premise. Way to go doofus.

Lou

What mass destruction? We're building hospitals and schools by the dozen and improving the infrastructure every day, and for every American soldier that dies, you can pretty much guarantee that 10 insurgents died in the process. I find it interesting that the media establishment in this country hasn't bothered to report how many terrorists have died in this war. You idiots are just falling for this media propoganda. TALK TO THE SOLDIERS. THEY WILL TELL YOU A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT STORY. And I'll trust their word before I'd trust the word of an ignorant pansy journalist any day.

To MAC:

Should we not have interfered in WWII because it resulted in the deaths of millions of Americans, Europeans, and Japanese and complete chaos after the allied victory?

We're in the middle of building a democratic government from scratch you moron. What do you expect?

Answer 1

First of all, lets be clear on one thing: The US is NOT at war in Iraq. We can thank the liberal media for continually calling this a war. Our war in Iraq ended when Saddam was removed from power.

Secondly, the US is presently stationed in Iraq so that a democracy can be established. This is a good thing, if it works.

We can expect it to take a while, and we can expect the radical Muslims to fight with everything they've got. Why? Because if we establish a democracy, they become unable to coerce and control their people like slaves, and murder them when they dare to disagree.

The alternative is to bring our troops home, watch the radicals declare a victory over the "Great Satan," and then we can arm ourselves and prepare for the onslaught here.

Answer 2

Maybe he simply needs to get nominated and difference his brain later. He is not rather updated at the plans of Iraq and hence could be a deficient option to interchange Rummy. Here are the objectives set forth: Create a Democratically elected executive: Accomplished Create three,2 hundred infrastructure tasks: eighty two% have been accomplished as of Aug. 2006 Create a police drive and navy that may deal with Iraq: The president of Iraq say as a way to be completed in June 2007 Find WMD: According to Congressional list, 500 WMD have been determined and Iraq was once to this point forward at creating a nuclear weapon that once the Bush management released the confiscated blueprints on-line that critics stated to take it off on account that the entire blue prints might permit a different nation to construct a nuclear bomb. So in which is the wasting aspect? Two objectives were completed, one target has a closing date and the opposite target is relocating ahead and now not backwards.

Answer 3

just about everything you just said is wrong and that's why people think we are loseing.
saddam was a tyrnat, but his country had a good infrostructure and was one of the best in the ME for womens rights as well they had good education and the lights turned on everyday, it's not like that anymore.
we didn't caputre there army, they just took off there uniforms and melted into the population.
and there is a full scale civil war ongoing, read the news
and smalledst casualties where in the 91' gulf war only 300
and we are loseing the war because us troops do not control the country. militas do. the terrotsist are a small element ad they only moved in after we did. saddam would never allow a rival power to be in his country, al quida was more opposed to saddam then we.
we are loseing the war every way you can lose a war
didn't you read the baker report, and if you think you are smarter then a team of bi partisan poloticians that actually went there, then i say you need to put down the crack and check into a reab center

Answer 4

Because you've plunged their once peaceful nation into civil war, killed over 100,000 civilians, and left the people of Iraq living in constant fear of attack from multiple groups including the US military.

You should feel bad about what you've done. If not, you have a big problem.

hope this helps.

Answer 5

We have reached an impasse in regard to Iraq. Not necessarily losing, but we are not making forward progress as we should. It is past time to rethink our strategies and move in a new direction to be successful in this war. Backing away from it or quitting is not an option in my view, but a definite adjustment in the way we are prosecuting it is in order.

Answer 6

Because many Americans think that everything should happen instantly and the media fosters the idea that we're losing.

The media looks for sensationalism above all else.

Answer 7

this is a civilization of drive thrus and sit coms. Ho chi mihn showed the world we cant fight a war of attrition and they are exploiting it.

Answer 8

Because we are.

We did successfully defeat the battered Iraqi army that we had in a state of perpetual siege since the first gulf war. This was an easy accomplishment for the US military foces that are designed to engage and defeat the enemy.

Since then our mission has become rather ambiguous. Our military is not made for occupying foreign lands. Thats not what we need them for. We need them to protect our borders and crush our enemies and they do this job rather well. The task of nation building and supressing civil unrest is not the mission these young men and women are supposed to carry out.

This has now become a quagmire, and a source of uncredible profit for he military industrial complex which will continue to sacrifice the blood of our troops for their war profits.

Al queda is nothing more then a CIA database, this is a fact, the CIA created and runs Al Queda Even Wikipedia gets this right: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda

So until the american people wake up to the fact that the powers that be care nothing for the lives lost and crave the windfall profits to be made for the war it will continue.

Answer 9

there are about 50,000 Iraqi's killed, which is horrible, but yeah, i don't think we are losing the war, especially talking to soldiers that have served in Iraq

Answer 10

Is that what the Japenese said after we dropped the bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and before the surrender. "How can so many people think we are losing against America?"

I have to say, this is one of the least informed (to put it nicely) questions I have ever seen on Yahoo! Answers.