In VERY SIMPLE TERMS can anyone explain what the Iraq thing is all about?

Question

Exactly who is fighting who? What does the US want to accomplish there? When US forces go in how do they get engaged in combat? What exactly happens when there is a conflict? I know this is very simplistic but I just want the basics. Thank you.

Answer 1

Q.Exactly who is fighting who?
A. Its the US and coalition forces ie Great Britain etc are fighting insurgent groups in Iraq and foreign fighters other countries.

Q. What does the US want to accomplish there?
A. Establish a Democratic government that can run the country by itself. Build up a self sustaining army and police force to inforce the laws and protect its self from invaders.

Q.When US forces go in how do they get engaged in combat?
A. Many ways and just to name a few. IED's, Vehicle Born IED's,
Insurgent Mortar attacks on the compounds, Hit and Run by insurgents. Very few times will they face the US forces in a face to face battle because they would all die very quickly.

Q.What exactly happens when there is a conflict?
A. What kind of conflict do you mean? There are alot of different kinds of conflicts. The US kills the enemy is what usually happens. Unless its an IED or VBIED then thats something that is dealt with when noticed by the convoy.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Well after the Nazi's bombed Pearl Harbor, George Washington, retaliated by attacking the North Vietnamese at Valley Forge on a cold summers day.

After that Canada nuked Mexico...that is how all the tacos got bent like that.

So the Imperial USA...sent Rambo to Iraq to kick Saddam in the butt, but they decided he was not well hung, so they hung him well ,so now he is well hung , but t is not gonna do him any good because he is a lesbian.

Lemme know if that clears any of this up 4 U....

ps YOU have to be an AMERICAN

Answer 3

The country is comprised of 3 sects: Kurds, Shiites, and Sunnis. [The Kurds are pretty much out of the way, though]. The sects do NOT get along [think 'Hatfields & McCoys,' some Indian tribes vs. 'white man,' or much of our racially polarized history]. We expected to topple Hussein and have them get a working gov't established. The Shiites are helping establish a gov't like ours to run the whole country, but the Sunnis are trying to sabotage that so they get THEIR way without the drudgery of a political system, which they think is a bad system because it doesn't follow their religious tenets. To control and root out the terrorist/saboteurs, you need to police the area the terrorists are in, so you walk the streets and/or try to find where they are hiding. You've got US troops in close proximity to terrorists, then, who would rather we leave. That's as I understand it, in rather simple terms.

Answer 4

The tribal people of the region have, historically, used war to deal with their differences. They had not risen above their differences to form a lasting union when greedy foreigners descended upon those lands and began to plunder the oil there. Royalty and tribal elites were bribed. And, the U.S. CIA was used by U.S. oil interests, including those belonging to the Bush family, to deliberately destabilize the region for control and to prevent the people in the Middle East from uniting and controlling the oil themselves. The people there, betrayed by their leaders, failed to rise to the realities of the 20th century in time for the 21st. Oil production peaks in 2012 and ends in 2070. The plunder of Middle Eastern oil is now a desparate piggy-fest of who gets control of the world's remaining oil. The societies there, so long destabilized, have disintegrated into episodic chaos and heightened religiosity as the quality of leadership plummeted. Foreign and local elite oil interests, concerned about security for their pipelines and oil fields now that factions of freedom fighters and religious fanatics threaten to disrupt the efficient flow of oil out of the land, placed foreign troops, including those from UK and U.S., in the region to ensure enough, but only just enough, stability to get the oil out. Even the plunder has grown chaotic with an estimated 500,000 barrels of oil going "missing" every day, securing someone's power in the future as oil begins to run out. Bush marches through the region and wants to invade Iran now to lock up the pipeline routes. The U.S. pays Isreal $30,000 every year bribe for every man, woman and child, plus, has given them nuclear weapons which they have recently threatened (then denied) to use against the Iranians, in order to have an initial foothold for the plunder march through the region. Now, with a Democratic Congress and worldwide disgust for Bush and Cheney's lying and plundering and unspeakably irresponsible plundering of our own nation's financial security while racking up the largest national debt in the history of mankind, there may be some reasonable approach that will be considered and some way to help the people of those regions that have been disarmed and are now at the mercy of roving gangs of religious fanatics and other factions. Bush stated during the Presidental debates that "there would be NO nation building" there, though. Bush says this week that he wants more troops over there. And, Democrats say they won't fund it.

Answer 5

sunnis are fighting the shittes.. the US wants to police the country and stop the fighting before it turns into a civil war. the extremists on both sides hate the americans and will engage them in battle when possible.

Answer 6

You want an answer ? look at history and you will find out. USA is now living its end , the end of dark days. new civilisation has already born in Iraq . The civilisation that will lead the world!!!
( And by the way USA cause the civil war becouse they want to destroy everythin while they are falling )

Answer 7

Well there is what we should be doing and are-Keeping other countries from trying to attack or assault a country that due to it's infancy is unable to defend itself.

And then there is the lunatic maneuver of Trying to use American Christian Farm-boys to police a Muslim society that speaks a language we do not!

Would somebody please post the want-ad for Arab Policemen on Monster already!

Answer 8

Hey, You are on Yahoo! Answers here. Not only will you get simple answers, you'll get simplistic answers, and guess what - you won't even know the difference.

Answer 9

There is no simple answer for you.
Far more complicated than Bosnia, Vietnam, WW2.

"If you are confused you are learning,
If you follow whats going on you are wrong."

Answer 10

we came in to fight and and take down saddam;s regime.
we came in believing they had WMD's but we were wrong and now the sunni's are fighting the shitte's and we're caught in the middle