Who thinks that the government doesn't know how to stop this war in Iraq?

Question

Yes, they attacked us and yes we were right in getting them back for it but now what? It's gone on for years now and hasn't stopped. We could and I think we should bring all of our soldiers home because that's all that country knows is war and fighting, I don't think us being there trying to help them will change them and their ways, and besides that, they don't want us there anymore. (That's what I believe anyway, I could be wrong, that's why I'm asking everyone's opinion, maybe I over looked something?)

I know that it was the al-quada {or however you spell it) terrorists that was involved in attacking us and I know that they were trained here in America. I know that GW Bush went after Saddam for his father and went after Osama but weren't they all from Iraq? This is what I have been lead to believe anyway. Like I said I could be wrong that's why I ask. We can't learn if we don't ask.

Answer 1

Having a son that juist got back from there (serving two years in Iraq), I would like to have them all back too, but not until the job is done. We are not there to make them change there ways, but to provide them the freedom to make the choice to change their ways. Thats all we are doing, if the fight continues after wwe leave then that is what they chose! I give it until 2008 just like I said in 2003!

Answer 2

When you say "they attacked us," do you mean Iraqis or just Muslims? The people who attacked us were Muslim, that's certain, but not all Muslims attacked us nor want to do so. 99.5% of Muslims in the world are not hate-mongering fanatics and they want peace and love just as much as anyone else in the world. Furthermore, the IRAQIs did NOT attack us. We were attacked by Al-Qeda, which has nothing, and had nothing to do with Saddam Hussein and Iraq. That relationship was a LIE that was told to America by the George Bush adminstration so that you would support them going to war in Iraq when there was no real reason to do so. In fact, they admitted that there was no tie between Iraq and the 9-11 attacks over a year ago. Bush knew that from the beginning. The Bush administration planned on invading Iraq BEFORE 9-11 happened, the attacks simply allowed them to do so with even less opposition.

We should not have gone to Iraq, that is generally accepted these days. However, as Colin Powell said, "We broke it, we bought it." The United States has allowed the infrastructure and security of Iraq to be utterly destroyed by not planning on what to do after Hussien was removed. By toppling what was obviously an evil regime and not planning for the next step, the US Gov't allowed the place to fall to pieces. If we leave now it would be like a child who makes a mess in the kitchen then runs to another room to play with something else. We have a moral responsibility to see that the mess we made gets cleaned up. Too many innocent Iraqis have died in the streets because of the mistakes made by US Gov't to just say now it is no longer our problem.

Answer 3

As someone that was alive when the Vietnam War was going on, I'll try to share a few similarities.

The press after the Tet offensive took "the war is lost attitude". They have been saying that message ever since we went into Iraq.

Every day on the news we had a body count telling us how many Vietcong and American troops were killed. Now we get the car bomb of the day report.

A bit of info on Vietnam: They were a colony of the French and went about trying to take over the country. This began back after WWII and continued until the early 1970's. American involvement in Vietnam started in the late 1950's and ended about 1974. Over 58,000 troops died and about 2,000 or so are still MIA.

Conversely, just over 3,000 troops have been killed in almost 3 years of fighting in Iraq.

I hear folks complaining about the number of soldiers killed, do you know how many American troops died on Iwo Jima? 8,000
in one battle for one island, in a 4 year long war.

One thing to remember, in war people die. To win a war you have to kill off enough of the enemy's forces so that they can't/won't continue to fight. Or have a press constantly tell you you can't win.......

Answer 4

I am liberal, but I do not think that the correct solution to the War in Iraq is to pull out our troops right now. I think an example is what we did in Israel, or what Britain did in India and Pakistan. If we pull out now without helping set some sort of stability, we will allow those countries to spiral into years of fighting that may well indeed lead to national security problems on our side in the future.

I think that phasing out may be an option, but from what I hear the troops there need more people, not less. I don't know if there is a correct solution. I think that the republicans need to admit that there may have been a mistake in going into Iraq and step up to the plate and say, now we need bipartisan support to solve the problem. Cause right now, politicians are spending too much time pointing fingers and not enough time addressing the problem.

Take a page from Gerald Ford's book, who just passed away, we shoudl learn from him. He pardoned President Nixon when he came into office, and though he lost in public opinion, he said that "he was spending 50% of his time on the actions of ONE person, and that he should be spending it on the American people instead." What I'm saying is that we need to take one step back to take 2 steps forward. Sure admitting wrong may not be popular, but by doing it we may finally be able to move forward!!!

Answer 5

The thing is that the war could be stopped. Within months. But there is simply too much money invested in the region. Billions and billions. I don't think we will see a permanent withdrawl for years and years. Maybe close to a decade. When we went in there, I don't think many Americans envisioned a war (military action, whatever you want to call it) lasting as long or longer than the Vietnam War. And it very well may last as long as that dreadful war. But I sure do think our leaders envisioned that. And it was something that we simply weren't informed about beforehand.

Answer 6

Well, Iraq didn't attack us, really. But Saddam was an unbelievable b*stard and truly deserved to be deposed. Lots of good reasons for doing so.

The US government does know how to stop this war, by winning. It's very hard, but it's worthwhile. I hope we have the will power to do it.

The fact that it's been three years of fighting is not nearly the most important fact. We're trying to give them freedom, and lots of dispicable terrorist-types are trying to prevent that freedom. We're right. Our goal is morally superior to the enemy's goals. Simple.

It's admirable that you're seeking information. I'm always trying to learn. Sometimes I'm wrong - I'm human. But it needs a pretty good point to prove I'm wrong. LOL

War is terrible, but sometimes it's better than the alternative.

Answer 7

If they kn ew how to end the war and turmoil that is happening out of Iraq there wouldn't be soldiers dying in Iraq today. We need to take our soldiers somewhere they are truely needed and can actually help a situation instead of making it worse

Answer 8

The War is far from over.... George Bush just wants to complete something his father started and does he know how to get out of the war NO because if we were to pull out now the usa would be under attack by the iraq people. Think about that.

Answer 9

There are many reasons that we went over to fight. Being in the military as I am has show to me that even we don't know why we're still there. When you are told to "sight in" on a child holding a gun, I think you would realize that in itself is one reason. Don't get me wrong just because we don't think it is "right" for a child to shoot at people, they do. We are raised in a society that believes it is wrong and we have no right to tell or force them to think what they believe is wrong. That is their way of life.

People say that oil is the main reason, sadly this is partly true. I have a military friend that was over there just to guard oil rigs. What I believe is that a little bit of all the reasons are true at this point in time.

Answer 10

We won the war and removed Saddam. We are at the point where we need to train the Iraqi people to defend themselves. When we let them take over permanently, there may still be violence. Our goal is to get them to take care of themselves, not be a nanny. This came right out of Don Rumsfeld's mouth.

Iraqis may not want us there, but they know they do not want us to leave.