2006-12-09 02:18:48 · 12 answers · asked by chaina l 1 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
How many other people know this........Austrailia has some kind of destructive weapons.....nukes, or some kind of bomb. They are a nuetral country, so no one veiws them as a threat. They have them for "just in case." They have enough weapons, probably, to take out half of asia, or the US. So why aren't people asking around over there, trying to figure out how they got them, and why they REALLY have them?
I can understand going over to Iraq to get the weapons. The Iraqis haven't liked us for a very long time, and as they've shown us, wouldn't hesitate to use them on us in a heart beat!! But why must the soliders stay over there, and be killed for a country that doesn't want our help? Or if they do, they have a poor way of showing it. I mean, where I grew up, when you wanted to thank someone, you sent them flowers a card or told them thank you. I don't remember having to kill someone to say it!
Why are we still over there in the first place?? Didn't they get what they were sent over there for? And what were they sent over to get in the first place?
2006-12-09 03:01:20 · answer #1 · answered by Pluto 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Iraq was was not necessary. Everyone seems to forget the main reason why we went to war with Iraq. Key word *Weapons of Mass Destruction* President Bush had said, "Iraq has weapons of mass destruction and is an imminent threat to the USA and the rest of the world." Well, we marched in there, no weapons of mass destruction found. So he changed it to, "We are here to liberate the Iraqi people." Well, the Iraqi people want us to leave." So he changed it again, "We are fighting a war on terrorism." My personal opinion since I have completed 2 combat tours there as an infantryman, it is not a war on terrorism, its a war on an *insurgency*
Iraq has not gotten better and we would be safer now if we had not invaded. Bush had made a whole bunch of lies up. Now, to put money in his pocket? I am not sure.. He already admitted that he had wrong Intel, but we are going to stick it out there.. Makes a lot of sense, huh? The way to fix Iraq right now, would be to leave some combat advisers there and a quick reaction force for the rest of the country. My estimate... Leave 1 US Army division mixed in with all of our services. Then within 1 year pull everybody out and keep rotating units to Kuwait like we have been doing since Desert Storm.
2006-12-09 02:35:12 · answer #2 · answered by Craig A 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My personal opinion on the Iraqi war is that Americans went to Iraq with the hope to gain from the spoils of war as usual and this time around it boomeranged. They got caught in the middle of people who hatred themselves, were only together because of the dictates of their geo-political boundaries. They didn't understand what they were going in for. the best thing is to turn around and do the right thing.
Call all the warring factions together and caunsel them on the need for peaceful co-existence. Make sure that resolutions are genuine and not imposeding whether those in power may not be our guys.
2006-12-09 02:35:59 · answer #3 · answered by MAFOKOCHIZHI 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Gulf War 1 was a mistake, Saddam told the US state dept. he was invading Kuwait, first they told him OK
then decided to kick him out. He was "our guy" because he fought a war with Iran.
Now we go after him again, at a huge price.
The likely result this time is Iran will be involved in Iraq deeply and may control the country.
We attacked the wrong country. We should have
dropped two nukes on Iran, it worked in WW2.
2006-12-09 04:10:12 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that it is a just war for two reasons: weapons of mass destruction and to free people from an evil dictator. General George Sadda reported that Saddam had them and that he used Chemical weapons on his own people, the Kurds, and he almost used them on Israel. As for the tyrant himself, no one should live the way the Iraqis were living. I am Cuban and I know how miserable life can be if an evil dictator is in power.
2006-12-09 02:25:16 · answer #5 · answered by caballero5792 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a war we should have finished in 1991 (I was in the Gulf war in Iraq then) when the road to Baghdad was wide open and the nation in rebellion against Saddam's reign. Since we did not finish it then I have no clue on why we wanted to finish it now.
2006-12-09 02:22:34 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it was just. Saddam was given 8 months to move the weapons, so I wonder where they are now, maybe buried, or in terrorist hands.
They course it has taken as of recent has been bad, but leaving would be catostrophic. The terrorists would gain control of Iraq oil, and sell it to Russia in exchange for weapons
2006-12-09 04:17:37 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
An unnecessary use of military force that has done not one iota to increase the security of this country and which has wasted a few thousand lives and many billions of dollars.
2006-12-09 02:21:24 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i do not really have much of an opinion on that, but if you ask a lot of our military forces they will say that it is a worth while cause. all the media does is show all the bad stuff and they do not show any of the good stuff that is going on in Iraq
2006-12-09 04:50:38 · answer #9 · answered by theprophet121211991 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sucks. It's the greatest american fiasco since Vietnam. And by the way, it's written IRAQ with a Q.
2006-12-09 02:28:17 · answer #10 · answered by gaban24 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋