What does everyone think about the war in Iraq?

Answer 1

It won't be ending anytime soon....We might not call it a war anymore, but our presence in Iraq will still be strong.

Answer 2

I am all for the war. I have been to Iraq twice, and while I hated it while I was there I understood it. The news shows NOTHING positive when there is so much. They get higher ratings though showing the IED, the detroyed car, and a puddle of blood on the street. The average Iraqi IS NOT living in fear and DOES NOT hate America. They wave and smile and carry on converstaion with us. They thanks us almost everyday we are there.
Lastely how many of you have seen the murals in Iraq about 9/11? There are hundreds of them showing Saddam and the twin towers burning! Just because our pathetic 9/11 commission said there was no connection between Iraq and 9/11 doesn't mean it isn't true.
Check out the link on military.com. You may have to a member but these propaganda posters are all over Iraq.

Answer 3

The war was necessary, everyone is glad Saddam is gone. But the elephant in the room no one is talking about is how the war changed the United Nations, and its illegal funding "outside of sanctions" this exposure of six billion dollars funneled to Saddam, was one of the most important aspects or results of the war. The second aspect that again no one talks about is the fact that after the invasion Libya sent all its WMD's to the United States and entered into relations with our country after more that 18 years. These are the positive results of the war. The negative, is the way in which our people don't have the resolve to finish the fight, historically this has been the case in every war we have fought, including WWII.

Answer 4

War officially began March 19, 2003. Almost 4 years. Our country has been at war for almost 4 years.

Latest figure that I have on American military casualties: 3000+. American wounded: 22000+.
Let’s unpack that. Really, those are just numbers that probably mean very little. We’re probably desensitized to casualty figures thanks to movies and video games. But 3000 people dead. Our US military casualties hit the 3000 mark. 3000! That’s more people than went to my high school. Over 20000 injured. That’s the size of a sold out baseball game.
Dec 06: 115 casualties alone. 115 families that had to celebrate the holidays with news that their kid was killed in Iraq

Current cost of the war is about $400 billion. That’s $400,000,000,000.

And Bush wants to send more troops.

Bush speech October 7 2002: Bush says that Saddam Hussein's Iraq "possesses and produces chemical and biological weapons" and "is seeking nuclear weapons."

"The danger is already significant and it only grows worse with time" …"If we know Saddam Hussein has dangerous weapons today -- AND WE DO -- does it make any sense for the world to wait to confront him as he grows even stronger and develops even more dangerous weapons?"

CIA Report October 7 2004 (two years to the day later): Saddam Hussein DID NOT possess stockpiles of illicit weapons at the time of the U.S. invasion in March 2003 and had not begun any program to produce them.

December 30 2006: Saddam Hussein is executed

January 10 2007: Bush addresses the nation, saying he wants to send 21500 more troops.

Um, let me see here. We go to war with Iraq because they’re supposed to have weapons of mass destruction. Heck, I was all for it after 9/11. Turns out that they don’t have wmd’s after all, chemical or nuclear. Regardless, we get Saddam and he’s been tried and executed. Good for US. So of course the logical outcome of all this is to send more troops?

We got Saddam. They don’t have bombs. Iraqis are killing Iraqis.

Now honestly, I’m just an average guy – I keep up with politics and the war here and there. But really, when we went to war 4 years ago, didn’t you think that it would bam-bam, we go in, tear up the place, and be out in a year or two? I mean we are the fricking United States of America. In 2003, I would have thought it preposterous for our nation to be in a state of war for the next 4 years. I thought a few casualties. But 3000 casualties?

Something is terribly wrong.

Answer 5

Illegal..

Shear stupidly of the grandest of scales...

The US attacked a country that was already under UN sanctions and with out UN approval or "proof of WMD" they attacked a country that did not have ANYTHING to do with 9/11.

Now Iran is just a few years a away from a bomb and the US has its hands tied from the (all of sudden) "democracy" in the middle east plan.

The US missed the target. They aimed at Afghanistan and hit Iraq instead.

Now the average Joe in Iraq has little food, little or no power in their homes and has no police to protect them and their families.

Worst yet…..Soon the US will pull out because of Congress. And we will see this repeated all over again when the terrorist DO occupy Iraq.

Answer 6

I am a conservative and was in the first Gulf War. I cannot understand why we did not finish it then.

But the current Iraq misadventure I think is best summed up by quoting General Omar Bradley and his opinion on the Korean conflict:

"It was the wrong war, at the wrong place, at the wrong time."

Answer 7

I think invading Iraq was a pretty stupid idea, especially the incompetent way it was undertaken. (http://www.lrb.co.uk/v27/n03/wein01_.html)

Also, it's not a war, since a war is something you fight AGAINST a country. We're inside the country already and trying to get the population to stop rebelling. The term for this is "occupation."

Answer 8

As a veteran of the Gulf war and a marine, I with great regret I must honestly tell you that this war is a MISTAKE.

NOone can win the war on terrorism!
It is rampand and alive all over the world!

Bush first started the war, to capture the wepaons of mass destruction, there was none. Then we captured Saddam. Now he is dead. Now he claims we are fighting for freedom or to win the war on terrorism.

Bush is the most confused president I think this country has. I believe he should be impeached for killing thousands of our service men and lying to America.

Answer 9

I think we need to go to war in Iran unless everyone wants to awaken to a mushroom cloud here in the states

Answer 10

I think it has its purposes, including but not limited to capturing a man who would take his own countrymen, cut there tongues out, tie them in Baghdad town square and let them bleed to death or die of thirst or exposure, which ever came first. Not to mention the atrocities against the Curds, liberals claim to support human right and yet they want this man back. Why?