why not pull out of iraq?

Question

ok, so bush says we cant pull out of iraq untill the job is done, why? If we leave now will the place blow up... and if it does blow up is that all that bad? I mean our men and women are dieing and im not happy about it. Why can we not pull out?

Answer 1

The Iraqi people are in reach of a watershed transformation from the primitive, killing tyranny of Saddam to modern, self-governing, self-securing nationhood – unless the great American military that has given them and us this unexpected opportunity is prematurely withdrawn," the Connecticut Democrat writes in an opinion piece for the Wall Street Journal.

Pointing to economic and political progress he witnessed while in Iraq, Lieberman said:

"People are working their way toward a functioning society and economy in the midst of a very brutal, inhumane, sustained terrorist war against the civilian population and the Iraqi and American military there to protect it.

"It is a war between 27 million and 10,000; 27 million Iraqis who want to live lives of freedom, opportunity and prosperity and roughly 10,000 terrorists who are either Saddam revanchists, Iraqi Islamic extremists or al-Qaida foreign fighters who know their wretched causes will be set back if Iraq becomes free and modern ...

"We are fighting on the side of the 27 million because the outcome of this war is critically important to the security and freedom of America. If the terrorists win, they will be emboldened to strike us directly again and to further undermine the growing stability and progress in the Middle East."

Lieberman is encouraged by the numbers of Iraqis who have gone to the polls despite the threat of violence, by Sunni participation in the electoral process and by the thriving independent media in Iraq.

"None of these remarkable changes would have happened without the coalition forces led by the U.S.," Lieberman writes.

"And, I am convinced, almost all of the progress in Iraq and throughout the Middle East will be lost if those forces are withdrawn faster than the Iraqi military is capable of securing the country.

"I am disappointed by Democrats who are more focused on how President Bush took America into the war in Iraq almost three years ago, and by Republicans who are more worried about whether the war will bring them down in next November's elections, than they are concerned about how we continue the progress in Iraq in the months and years ahead.

Answer 2

Bush's statement should be taken with a grain of salt. The 'job' he wants to see done is the establishment of a permanent US presence, and control of Iraq's oil.

The short answer is, we CAN pull out, obviously. If that becomes the desire of the administration, we probably will. However--

The job that SHOULD be done, and the reason we shouldn't leave, is because we made this mess, and we should clean it up.

Somehow, we Americans have the notion that we did Iraq a huge favor by attacking them and toppling their government. They seem to heartily disagree. They certainly didn't ask us to do it, and they have paid a terrible price for our 'favor.'

From a standpoint of responsibility, it appears the majority of Americans blame either Bush and/or the Iraqis for the disintegration of their society's structure, and feel that there is nothing more we could or should try to do to stabilize the situation. The fact that WE elected Dubya, twice, and that many Americans overwhelmingly supported his call to invade Iraq and topple Saddam (who actually had a handle on his countrymen's violent sectarian tendencies) seems to have conveniently escaped our national memory.

I agree, as long as Bush is calling the shots, it's unlikely anything will improve. Unless his speech tomorrow signals a real change in approach--such as using money and troops to start re-opening factories and putting the country back to work instead of paying American companies untold billions--Iraq will continue its downward spiral.

Cleaning up our mess could very well entail waiting out his term, electing a President who will actually start infusing money into rebuilding Iraq's economy, and then hanging around long enough to see that it takes. There will be more Americans killed, more sectarian violence, more of the same, and I doubt we have the stomach for it. But it may be the only chance we have at finally making this right.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

Because if he does, it amounts to going back on his earlier words that we should stay till the job is done. This could force him to lose his job ! That, I mean, keeping his job as president, is the only reason why he keeps insisting he has been right all along.

Answer 5

Did you know men are killed in war? If we left, Iran and Syria would take over and the terrorists would flourish and be on the way to our shores. Think a little as the Socialists do not seem to do.I mean so called Democrats.

Answer 6

Because we won't control the OIL if we pull out.

Answer 7

But then the insurgents will have control of their own oil, not American oil companies.

Answer 8

honey these are things we would never come to know about it political tactics

Answer 9

The JOB IS NOT DONE YET and the USA is not going to
make the same mistake that we did in VIETNAM and cut and run!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 10

Our troops haven't killed enough brown children yet.