Saddam has gone. Now, when Bush is going to leave Iraq and let the peace take roots?

Answer 1

so, ...you think that if America leaves, Iraq is going to be all sunshine and roses?

Do you realize than anyone who was suspected of collusion... in any way, with the US and allies will be killed? Family will be tortured to give each other up... etc.

What a simple world you live in. Unfortunately, the rest of us live in a world where there is still work to be done, and American and coalition troops are doing it.... and doing it well.

This is a war being fought as much in the media and the arena of public opinion as it is on the ground in Iraq. The American people and the press - which often seems interchangable because the press molds the people - constantly calling for troop withdrawl encourages the enemy who knows how to use this medium for its own purposes.

The US needs to get behind our troops and their mission and stay there - and let the press and its Iraqi insurgent stringers do its own thing. The US CAN WIN, but it has too be given full support so the enemy knows that waiting us out is not an option.

When the insurgency is cruushed - peace will take hold, and not before.

Answer 2

Iraq right now is an open wound. Right now we are in the Nations rebuilding process. No one said it would be done quickly so why does everyone think it's going to be. Yes the troops have been over there for three years. A country can't be built in that short of time and if we leave now we leave the 'wound' open for any kind of 'infection' to take over.

Yeah let's leave the country without a solid leadership, no stable military, and call it good. Then sit back and watch all 'peaceful' action occur. Or here's an idea, maybe we should let the military do their job.

Answer 3

Perhaps they are to develop certain cultural issues and dwell into need for success in their wise and strange ways, so there is no bull intended, lack of order is aparent and to some at least satisfaction is lead by weaponry, not vice versa. Supposedly a war or occupation armistice is based on the neccesity of eradicating a former government, plus abling the new collectivity into some simpathy for the offender, thus attending to the old Sun Tsu saying "the best atack is not yet seen". Preparation and some form of ingenuity at conceiving peace corps or a retrieval is a must these days. It could be advisable to go for the goals and give some space to local warriors. Time shall tell Iraq is not peace-intended but aggresive and with a solid social strategy. This is not being atacked or demolished, to great concern of chiefs of staff.
Last point is to segregate feelings back home so people are not very hurt by some petroil business or politics becoming avoid of peace efforts, and many wish forward to become acknowledgeable of future intentions, at least in operations with the UK, some remember boldly the UK did not provide very good intelligence in the 90´s, nor would compromise their safety in Europe. This was only natural and important to US.

Answer 4

I hope so. I think we've done all that we can do, and the rest is going to have to be put into the hands of the Iraqi people. I think we will begin to wrap things up over there soon. From what my family members who are stationed over there tell me, they are mainly over there training Iraqis for the jobs they will hold in the new government.

Unfortunately, I do think it will be quite some time before it can be said that Iraq truly knows peace. Not because of America, but because of the turmoil amongst the people that still exists, and has so for many, many years.

Answer 5

Put the crack pipe down, de-tox, and maybe some sense will manifest itself in that well protected head of yours.

So we just pack up and leave and everything will just take care of itself. All the Liberals can go back to smoking pot and picking flowers and the rest of their bohemian ways and all the warring factions are just going to sell their arms and gather for a magical group hug.

Hussein came to power because it was possible to do it the way he did. It's called a coup. Until Iraq can stand on it's own and remain a democracy, a world power like us will have to be there to help facilitate it. If we just left them high and dry there will NEVER be peace in Iraq.

Answer 6

Yes, we will leave and peace will take over, because we all know how friendly arabs are towards each other. Can you explain how letting the Sunnis and Shiites kill each other without any kind of intervention will lead to peace? I mean, technically, one will eventually kill the other off, but then the winner will declare a Jihad on some one else, and thus the never ending cycle of war in the Middle east.

Answer 7

Around 5 more years. Americas soldiers arent going anywhere. Im not being pro-war or anti-war, im just being realistic. Regardless of democrats taking over congress in January and regardless of who wins the presidency in the next election we are stuck in Iraq for around 5 more years. There is no quick fix to this problem, and America can not pull out and be seen as a paper tiger. Democrats wont pull out and republicans certainly wont either. For either side to pull out and leave the mess would show weakness and failure and they wont risk that. So sit back and enjoy the show.

Answer 8

Now that Saddam was dead, it is better for the Americans to leave Iraq for its people to unite and make peace.

Answer 9

Saddam was in power because the US wanted him to be. Along the lway, he cut off the oil to the US. Coincidentally, the US decided he shouldn't be in power.

Ronald Reagan and George Herbert Walker Bush, and James Baker who was Secretary of State, and Robert Gates, who was the C.I.A. Director in the 1980's, how they met what was called a tilt policy in favor of Iraq and against Iran in the 1980's and developed what they thought was strategic reasons were for the United States to be doing that. Then the sad story of how it got out of control, how Vice President Bush was deeply personally involved in illegal arms transfers to Saddam Hussein in the late 1980's that shouldn't have happened, and how the Bush Administration, that's Bush one, then proceeded with the help of Boyden Gray as White House general counsel and others to cover up a scandal that in my judgment was significantly larger than Watergate. Lets put it into historical context. In the 1980's, the Reagan White House wasn't just busy defeating the so-called evil empire of the Soviet Union and out spending and bankrupting the Soviets, they were also engaged in a Middle East Policy in Iraq and Iran, that was aimed at obviously trying to defeat and neutralize the Islamic fundamentalists of Iran which were Americas perceived enemy at the time. To defeat Iran, we will fortify Saddam, he may be a killer. He may be a butcher, but he's our guy. We will keep him to keep a balance of power between Iran and Iraq.

Donald Rumsfeld went to Baghdad, was met by Saddam Hussein at the airport. That's right. Donald Rumsfeld. With a big Rumsfeld grin on his face said, "I'm really glad to be here in Baghdad with my good friend, Saddam Hussein," and proceeded to carry messages back and forth for the Reagan administration of active military and economic support for Saddam Hussein. I think it's important you don't need to be a conspiracy theorist of course because there are people who make up stories. You just need to look at the facts to understand that the same Rumsfeld and the same Bush advisers, the coterie of C.I.A. and military types who have been around the family of the father and are now in the administration of the son, are the same people who built up Saddam Hussein as our guy, and turned a blind eye at his atrocities, and slapped him on the back, literally, physically, Rumsfeld in his jovial way, slapped Saddam on Iraq Saddam and said, great to do business with Iraq, our friend. And the same people used the same funds to support Osama bin Laden in the late 1970's and early 1980's in Afghanistan to fight the Soviet Union. We create these monsters and then when's not convenient we cover them up.

The US won't leave until they have control of the oil wells. People, speak up!

Answer 10

I doubt. If peace returns Bush has no job, he will have to face domestic problems. Now he and his friends start turning to other fertile pastures to graze.