Our mission has chaged so much I don't recall
2007-01-21 06:57:33 · 24 answers · asked by Eric the Great *USA* 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
I keep asking this same question, in differing forms, every couple of days.
We supposedly LOVE the Iraqi people enough to want to make them "free" and "give" them a democracy (ahem....I know there are many term contradictions in that sentence....) So who ARE we killing? Seems like it must be the Iraqis, because they didn't like our "gift".
To those who say al quaida is the target, Iraq is not their base, nor in any way responsible for 9/11. If it was, we'd have nuked the whole country by now.
We jumped off into a country with a mindset that we Westerners do not understand, and we're scratching our @sses wondering why we seem to be creating more enemies by the hour. We have done our best to make new terrorists.
Why are we so blind!?!!???
2007-01-21 07:16:34 · answer #1 · answered by Joey's Back 6 · 2⤊ 2⤋
There are a number of Muslim terror organizations around the world. They're usually content with disrupting 3rd world nations and taking control (this is exactly what happened in Lebanon, Somalia, and Afghanistan).
They saw an opportunity and began recruiting for service in Iraq.
There are also former Baathists who would like to take the country back (they are declining in number and power), and there are Shiites being sponsored and equipped by Iran through the Diyala province on the border.
Combined, they're not enough to defeat us, and they will never face us head on (they prefer easy civilian targets). That's why the only strategy we need is street security. It will be a long slow road, but the insurgency is likely to never grow beyond what it is now because there is no real impetus for a real all out war.
2007-01-21 15:07:54 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
We all thought there were nuclear weapons in Iraq, even Clinton did at one point which many tend to forget. We thought that was why he refused for years to cooperate with U.N. inspections for weapons. We removed Sadam because of the threat he posed and the atrocities he has commited.
Now we are trying to help the people in Iraq build a government since Hussein was removed. We are trying to help establish a government that doesn't commit the mass murders of his own people that Sadam Hussein did during his reign of brutality. A governement that represents the people and their right to vote for what they want. To protest what they don't think is right without threat of being killed.
Unfortunately there are insurgents that don't want that, they are loyal to Sadam regardless of the atrocities he committed, and they are fighting the formation of a new goverment by attacking our troops and any Iraqi that tries to help form the new government. My friend went over there for work and it appeared to him many Iraqis were grateful for the intervention, especially those whose family members were brutally murdered by Sadam.
2007-01-21 15:27:45 · answer #3 · answered by crossroads67 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
those that seek an independent iraq government are one of the most demonized groups. we tend to disagree with outside involvement in iraq government,but are just as guilty as iran and syria of it. some sunnis want and are supported by syria and their baathists.some shiites are supported by iran and favor a bigger iran. some iraqi are okay with US involvement in iraqs US dependent government. truth is it will take cooperation to create a stable iraq.
2007-01-21 15:09:09 · answer #4 · answered by J Q Public 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I don't know. It's probably just the president's decision...
Does anyone REALLY like/need war?
Anyway, hope all wars end before Valentine's Day. Because it wouldn't make sense to have a war, on a day when you're supposed to love each other...
Well, ask the president...He's the one who's making these decisions...
2007-01-21 15:06:11 · answer #5 · answered by nomnom 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
being a citizen of america, i do not condone the war at all. 8.4 billion dollars a month of taxpayers $ goes to fight a non-identifiable enemy. the international war on terrorism will never succeed unless the roots of poverty are addressed. read the P.N.A.C.- rebuilding americas defenses for the 21st century. can you say "set-up"?
2007-01-21 15:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Evil! It seems that we are at war with evil, that is what I read once in a newspaper.
2007-01-21 15:05:48 · answer #7 · answered by markos m 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was a lie in the beginning and now we are hated by all in iraq
2007-01-21 15:05:34 · answer #8 · answered by Gypsy Gal 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
there are many answers to this, but right now, it seems we are at war with ourselves. a war to determine which direction to take the war.
2007-01-21 15:27:37 · answer #9 · answered by JD 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Exactly, no one really knows, except the president and his people. We got Saddam, we didn't find the WMD's,......oh, but they they do still have a LOT of oil, as I recall.
2007-01-21 15:03:40 · answer #10 · answered by ? 5 · 2⤊ 3⤋