Do you agree with the war in Iraq? Elaborate?

Question

I would like to see intelligent answers backed up with facts. Be argumentative if you would like.

Answer 1

Yes
1. Getting shot at and seeing it first had changes a man. TV does not help.
2. We created this whole situation so we have to clean it up.
fact 1 Saddam was a freind of ours
fact 2 Bin laden was a friend of ours
we gave them the money and weapons to hold back the Russians.

Now its dam if you do and dam if you don't.
With bin Laden its dam if you don't we left him alone and he attacked us.
With Saddam its dam if you do. We took him out early to prevent a future war. He had WMD's now their missing. Why do we know this the Kurds learned it first hand. Why do think he is on trial for crying out loud.

Till you have seen it first hand SHUT UP!

Answer 2

Okay...I'm about to bash Bush, so I'm sorry if this becomes offensive.

I wholeheartedly do not agree with the war in Iraq simply because it began with false pretenses, or at least, not very logically backed ones. With very little evidence to support the existence of said "Weapons of Mass Destruction" and the lack of UN backing, any other president would have turned away.

And the continued military presence in Iraq is unfair to the Iraqis and to Americans. I recently watched a documentary on a family torn apart by Iraq (the father being a serviceman), and it was heartbreaking. The young son couldn't understand why his father needed to be in Iraq still, and neither could I,

They've banished Saddam, found no WOMD, and are being whittled down slowly by the day. All we've got out there is good men dying for stupid reasons. Can we stop this senseless violence? Does this continued war make sense?

Answer 3

Iraq had zero terrorists, except Saddam himself, perhaps, before the war. If the point of the war is US security, it has failed, because:
a) a tightly controlled, secular society has become an anarchic, fundamentalist society;
b) Saddam, we now know, had no means or intention of killing a single American;
c) the US has squandered 2000+ soldiers' lives and half a trillion dollars, making it weaker should a real threat emerge.
d) there are tens of thousands of widowers and orphans etc. who now feel tremendous hatred of the US for killing their relatives.
e) there is a general feeling throughout the world that the US turned evil after September 11, and thus there are fewer people in other countries who would go out of their way to protect a nation that would so easily kill so many people.
f) Bin Laden is a fundamentalist, while Saddam was an American ally and a secularist. Bin Laden is in Afghanistan/Pakistan; Saddam was in Iraq. Bin Laden attacked the US; Saddam attacked Kuwait, Iran and, to a lesser extent, Israel. After Bin Laden attacked the US, the US attacked Saddam. Having a fundamentalist, anarchich state where Iraq once stood is probably the best thing that's happened to Bin Laden. Now, he's got 2 million new members! And he's still operating, five years after 9/11. If he'd attacked my country and we a) helped him; b) didn't catch him ... it would our leader would probably be is prison!

If the point of the war is "freedom" for Iraqis, it has also failed:
a) While the dictator is gone, he hasn't been replaced by freedom. Kids cannot walk to school freely. Mom's can't take their kids outside freely. Men cannot apply for jobs freely. No one votes for anything ... the country is still led by a military leader who is a foreigner.
b) Saddam killed fewer than 300,000 people while in power; much of that figure is from a decade ago or longer. The US used those atrocities to win support for toppling Saddam. Yet, some estimates put the current death-toll at 300,000 or greater, a direct result of the anarchy created by the US.

Bush made a decision to go to war; if he had decided to catch Bin Laden and dismantle his network, 99% of Muslims would not have been offended. Instead, Bush decided to invade the country 1000 miles away from Bin Laden, which has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths of innocent kids and other people, meaning that the global population of normal-thinking people, including Muslims, cannot view the US as any improvement over Saddam Hussein, and as foolish.

Answer 4

I do agree with the war and have since the beginning. Not the most recent beginning, but rather the one that occurred in 1991. Saddam Hussein needed to be removed from power. The United States did have the right to invade because Hussein was in violation of the ceasefire agreements from the first gulf war. This occurred when he began firing on Coalition planes patrolling the southern No Fly Zone and was aggravated by his expulsion and failure to properly cooperate with weapons inspectors. The current situation in Iraq is such that we cannot abandon this country. In short, we broke it, we must help fix it. Lastly, I know that many do not believe that Iraq was engaged with terrorists before the war, but it cannot be denied that there are terrorists now. For our safety we must see this through to the end. I do believe we have adhered to a Utopian strategy in Iraq and we do need a new strategy, but the strategy must be one with the focus on winning, not just one where we again try to save face. This did not work in Vietnam and it will not work in Iraq. If we abandon this country we will be fighting there again in the future and next time it will be worse.

Answer 5

I don't necessarilly agree with the War in Iraq but I supported and continue to support the premise set forth by our government of why we went into Iraq.

Why? Well first, that is the way I was raised. I was taught by my elders that for our country to remain the great country that it became that we had to remain united. That each of us had/have a role to play to insure the sanctity and security of our country. While my role may not be doing the actual fighting, it is my duty to support those who are by not doing or saying anything that might undermine their mission. It may sound dumb to you but it is what brought our country through The American Revolution, The Spanish/American War, World War I, World War II and the Cold War. Our unity deteriorated during the Vietnam War and looked what happened. The same is true now with the Iraq War. We are a country that is becoming divided and that is influencing our successs in Iraq.

Second, I do believe that there were WMD's. I also know that Saddam had 5 months to hide or destroy them knowing we were coming. I would bet the farm he sent them to his neighbor Syria. The whole world believed he had them. I believe that it is ridiculous to think that our government (President Bush) could have altered the intelligence reports for countries like Great Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Every one of these countries had intelligence that the weapons did exist. no one can deny that.

Third, Saddam was a sponsor of terror. He paid bounties to families of suicide bombers. Anyone willing to bring death and destruction to his enemies was rewarded.

Fourth, President Bush NEVER, NEVER, Never said that Saddam had anything to do with 9/11. For those that claim he did that is simply not true. The claim was that Saddam would support financially and allow training to take place for various terrorist organizations inside his country, which he did.

Fifth, the slaughter of the Kurds in the North of Iraq. If we as Americans can not come to the aid of other human beings that are being slaughtered and help liberate them from the tyranical rule of a man like Saddam Hussein than what good are we. What right would we ever have to expect someone to come to our aid if we won't do the same for someone else.

Answer 6

I agree with the war in many respects. I will back our country and troupes no matter where they are. Some fact of the war that I do not like are that our troupes are tied down by "Rules" They have no freedom of how to make war. In WWII and others the soldier was autonomous. He killed what he perceived as the enemy. Now the Liberal press talks too much about what "innocents" were killed. I dont believe we need to know everything about the war. Just let them do there jobs and win the dang thing.

Answer 7

I have never agreed with the Iraq war, because it was based on a lie. We were told we were under threat from weapons of mass destruction, which have never been found, which makes the war illegal. 650,000 innocent people have been murdered, and for what? Human life should be higher on the list of priorities than oil.

Answer 8

no i think it is incredibly stupid and illogical. because when u think about it A) bin laden blew up our country and we stopped hearing bout him about 2 months after 9/11 and spent loads of time and money looking for suddam WHY? what did he do to us? he did murder millions of his own people and yes it is horrible but 1. thats his country not ours we cant just control his actions and 2. thousands of people die on our own streets and we dont do d!ck about that. B) NO ONE can stop terrorists permantently because its like a virus and theres always going to be people pissed off and wanna blow some1 away, it sucks but theres nothing we can do about it! and C) why are we so involved in there economy and how they run there country? when katrina hit no one came to aid them for weeks and thats sick that we are trying to change and show the iraqs they need to work together and better themselves when we cant even be a role-model to show how its done! we blow up there cities and raise taxes to rebuild them and send them food and military aid when there are people again dying on our own streets from hunger and being poor and no one gives aid to them, its sick how gross this country really is. and this is an awesome question!

Answer 9

it is not our war to be fighting in.
we went there because there were apparently nuclear weapons. did we find any? (we KNOW n. korea has it and has had for several years now)
yes, 9-11 has a lot to do with why we are still there, but we don't need to be there (in the numbers we are - and not only americans) to find the 'cells of terrorism'.
in my opinion (which is probably wrong - which is why i'm not in the military or government) we should have gone over there and killed all the women and children because the muslim men won't procreate with a non muslim woman. the species there would die off and send a huge message to any group that wants to terrorize us.

Answer 10

No, because the world was more stable with Saddam in Iraq.