The War on Terror? Humm. So, who are we fighting? The war is between who and who?

Question

The Sunnis are fighting the Shiites and vice versa. U.S. troops already going door to door, trying to find those elusive insurgents. extremists, militia, etc.
So Iraqi enemies are fighting other Iraqi enemies. Another enemy in the uniform of the U.S. military gets caught in the crossfire.
Many dead on all sides.
When a U.S. troop puts his life on the line, patroling the streets, watching his OWN back, when he walks bravely into a war zone, who the hell is he fighting? And why? When the other enemies are killing each other.
More troops? Why sacrifice more?

Answer 1

It's all about control of the oil. The next step of trying to get Iran into the frame has already started. We'll see even more of this, and the fall out in human suffering will be even greater, unless the next US president sees the light and withdraws the troops.
My sympathy is totally on the side of the Iraqis, it's their country that's destroyed and they have no place to go, all the US troops are volunteers, aren't they?
"War on terror" is only a propaganda lie, made to put political opponents in the camp of "terrorists", a tried and proven method, look up "McCarthy" and you'll see that it is the exact same method, only the words have changed.

Answer 2

The "War on Terror" is misnamed. Terror is a tactic. To military guys, like myself, this makes as much sense as saying "War on Combined Arms". Part of the reason we ended up in Iraq, is I believe, the nebulousness of this label. Mr Rumsfeld gave a press conference where he explained this to those geniuses in the press, who laughed at him. Yeesh...
A more accurate term might be" A Counterterror Campaign against Islamo-fascists".
Theoretically, the linkage of Iraq with the GWOT was alleged support of Al Qaeda and WMD. Later, it became the establishment of a free-market democracy would stimulate similar changes in the Middle East.
All this is predicated on the Pseudo-Marxist view that Islamo-Fascists are poor, uneducated, peasants. Nothing could be further from the truth. Nearly all the murders involved in Khobar Towers, The USS Kidd incident, and 9/11 were educated, middle class young men.

Answer 3

First rule of Martial Arts. The aggressor must kill to win, the defender only needs to survive to win. We are in occupation of Iraq, we came to this point because of no exit plan at the start. No exit plan was a Bush blunder that cost Americans their life. In a occupation there can be no winner or loser. Congress approved the use of force to get rid of Saddam and look for WMDs. Congress has never approved the occupation of Iraq open ended. Iraq is about oil and money, that's it. They hate Democracy. Iraq is in civil war, that is fact. Our service members are not the worlds police force, they should not be put into a civil war.

Answer 4

We are NOT at war for oil!!!!!!!! You want to know who we kill in Iraq on a daily basis? Not Iraqis...nope. We kill militant Muslims from Iran, Syria, Saudi Arabia, etc. You don't ever hear about that on the news though do you. 80% of the people we cath or kill don't and never have lived in Iraq. They come to Iraq to kill us. And you know what...thats fine by me. I would much rather fight them there instead of here.

Answer 5

We invaded Iraq to take Saddam out of power which was a huge success, hence "Mission Accomplished". Now it is our responsibility to keep fighting the insurgents until the Iraqi government is strong enough to handle it on it's own. The Iraqi police and military force are beggining to show signs of strength and the people are starting to experience freedom and Democracy, all thanks to Bush.

Answer 6

I bet even Bush could not answer that one unless someone told him the answer.