Why do people continue to flagrently protest the most successful war in American History?

Question

I do not especially approve of President Bush. My overall idea of the man is he is a total dolt. However, the war in Iraq has been hugely successful. American troops invaded, defeated, deposed and eventually aided in the execution of a man found guilty in a court of law for comitting mass genocide. Yes, Saddam Huissein was a Dictator who killed hundreds of thousands to suit ends, whatever they were, and we saved an entire country from him. Now we are there to keep an extremely unstable democracy in its infancy from being shredded by a politically and religiously torn nation that so happens to contain terrorists that are an enemy that looks no different from any other Iraqi Civillian in the street. This war is a righteous nessessary cause that no American was drafted for but all VOLUNTEERED to help win for the good of a helpless country. I cannot understand those who protest the funerals of fallen veterans and others who protest such a great work

Answer 1

I don't agree with everything you've said, but VERY good post. You are correct - this is a *very* successful war, but don't expect the left to ever admit it. Their blind, fanatical hatred of Bush prevents them from being able to actually THINK.

I think the jerk offs who protest at soldiers funerals should be dressed in a t-shirt that depicts Mohammad, draped in the American flag, flipping the bird on the front, and "I hate Muslims" on the back, then dropped off in Baghdad.

Answer 2

Fact from fiction, truth form diction. What have you been smoking, and can I have some? To point out how big a failure this war was overall would take 5 book, and thick ones too. The action of Saddam was legal. He was the government head and put down insurrection and threat to the government, just like the Chinese did in Tiananmen Square, Pinochet did in Chili with the blessing of Uncle Sam, and even G.W. with is secret offshore gulags and torture palaces. The only difference is G.W. will not be put on trial for his crimes. And to take a producing nation where it was rather safe to walk the streets and there was some form of infrastructure and reduce it to a place where you are lucky to have water and power or life out a civil war is not any improvement you can brag about. And most of the young men and women(at least those on the ground and not cowering offshore on a ship or high up, untouchable in a bomber)joined because the cost of college is way too high for common folk without athletic ability. They joined to get money for college. If they could have gone straight to college after high school do you think they would not? Thought they sat around and say "I want to join the army so maybe there'd be a war, and I can go kill someone"? I bet if you added it up, you will that the number of families earning $700,000 or more yearly have not gave the lives of thier sons and daughters equal to the poor single parent or those earning $30,000 or less.

Answer 3

Those who protest at the funerals of fallen veteran's are monstrous - they are hijacking a tragedy for the advancement of their own cause. As to protesting the war that is an American right, no matter what your opinion of the war is, for or against. A lot of deception was used to get us involved in this war, so I can see why people protest it. Getting rid of Saddam Hussein was a good thing, deceiving the American public about the reasons for it was not.

Answer 4

President Bush is a good, decent, intelligent man. You don't graduate from Yale by being a dummy. Any who, the last two wars American has fought were fought by volunteers. Vietnam, Korea, WW2 had drafts. Any struggling democracy is going to have left overs from the previous regime. And they aren't going to go away quietly. What is happening in Iraq is just part of the process. I agree that those who protest soldier's funerals need to have their heads examined. The Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas is full of such crack pots.

Answer 5

I thought you were talking about some other war... NOT everyone is in favor of this war, including other democratic countries and many of our own elected officials and citizens.

You call this a "successful" war... omigosh, are you SERIOUS or have you been brainwashed?

The ones that support this war, coincidentally, are not the ones sending their own sons and daughters to risk their lives in a foreign country... but those who are profiteering at the expense of the war, the ones who are making huge fortunes and stand to share and divide the fruits of the war when the smoke clears... oil rights!

By the way, yes, our enlisted personnel joined the services voluntarily but not all are in favor of either going or returning or staying longer than they were originally told, just in case you haven't heard. Once in uniform, they cannot protest whether to go or not... they'd be court martialed, they don't have a choice in where they are sent. How come the super rich and powerful are not sending their children to fight in this war, too, but just the poor and lower-middle class and middle-middle class are the ones dying in action?

Saddam Hussein was indeed a bad dude, and so were his sons and his relatives that routinely raped and tortured and murdered and killed thousands (as proof of the mass graves found and being found presently). But... why must the USA be the world's "police" and not the rest of the free world...? Why not the United Nations sending in troops of which our country could have been one of many...? WHY do we have to bear the burden of this war... why not those profiteering from it, like Dubya's and Cheney's cronies... Haliburten? They haven't had the heart to attend a single funeral of the 3,000+ killed in action!

How come President Bush and Vice President Cheney don't send their daughters to the front as many other Americans have done?

Why aren't YOU in uniform fighting this war? Using the excuse that you're too young, too old or still in school? If that is the case, hold off on your opinions until YOU are in uniform, like MY friends and relatives have done since the First World War and each and every conflict since then and including the present! WE are not defending anything but the oil interests of Cheney's cronies that were allotted contracts without customary bidding and no questions asked; meanwhile, Halliburton and other select companies our making huge fortunes by over-billing and over-charging the Government of the USA and collecting obscene fees and not one government official is questioning the ridiculous fees being charged and being paid! Factor that into your opinion but please do not try to justify it with nonsensical slogans, idiotic propaganda and ignorant suppositions on your part!

It's so easy to VERBALLY "support" a war when you are not wearing a uniform, or sending off your son or daughter, or a spouse or your father to be possibly killed, injured, maimed or left disabled... easy, ain't it?

If history has taught us something, it is that every time the USA has gotten involved in the politics of another country, the USA has set up a tyrant that it will later want to kill off, like the previous tyrant. YOU REALLY think the USA has done much by eliminating one tyrant and installing another who is not necessarily so honest? I question the reasons for the war and I question the dishonesty and the greed involved... and the unnecessary deaths of our enlisted personnel and the many, many innocent civilians deaths we've caused. I also question how our returning disabled are being treated...!

Answer 6

Hey I like Bush.
Your spelling's an atrocity and people who protest funerals need to be beaten. And since you are so glad to see Sadam gone, does this mean you still think those of us who celebrated his execution with a toast are morbid?

Come on, inquiring hedgehogs wanna know.

Answer 7

"Successful Americans" are @ WAR with the rest of America..

Answer 8

this war is like vietnam. No winners. How many died. is Iraq more stable? of course not. Its worse. The most successful war was Gulf War 1. That was a whipping. This is merely a propaganda war. The US isn't winning. As much as i admire the troops. they are fighting apointless oil war. Gulf war, fair enough. But this is American corperate greed, not a hostile invasion.

Answer 9

Why do people so falsely state that our military VOLUNTEERED to go to war in Iraq? I am ex-military. I VOLUNTEERED to defend the constitution and the USA against all enemies both foreign and domestic.The soldiers VOLUNTEERED to follow the lawful orders of those appointed over them. George Bush VOLUNTEERED to order the troops to Iraq. Please stop lying about the troops. They don't deserve that.

PS If the war was so "successful", why are the troops still there and being killed and wounded on a daily basis?

Answer 10

If they didn't have anything to protest, they couldn't call themselves liberals. You are right that we have accomplished many things while we have been there and that everybody in Iraq is in the military by choice. I don't think you can call it the most successful war yet, that remains to be seen over the next few years. He's definitely not "a total dolt."