If you believe the US troops should come home from Iraq then please explain why you feel that way.......Thanks

Question

I don't get how taking all of our troops home would improve the situation. Sure, they'd be out of harm's way but how could that cause the violence in Iraq to suddenly quit just because our troops left? I honestly want to understand how liberals feel (even though I may not agree with you) I want to attempt to understand your position.

Answer 1

I think if our troops left Iraq, things would get worse for the Iraqis. Unfortunately, we're involved in a war that should never have been started, and now we have to stay and finish it. To leave would be admitting defeat and it would embolden our enemies.

What a mess. We're damned if we stay, and damned if we leave. Iraq will go down as the biggest foreign policy disaster in our history.

Answer 2

The first thing we should concentrate on is that " Why is there violence in iraq?" the answer definetly would be "because of american soldiers" but wait, wait.. let me tell you why!. the people of Iraq are fighting none other but the american soldiers, there is no one in Iraq other than the american soldiers against which the people would fight. If the american troops leave iraq all things qould get fine, the Iraqi's would find no one to fight against, the iraqi police and army is acceptable but the iraqi's, a democratic government would definetly come into formation ( which would be a tough task and it may take time). the only problem is the shia suni ( two sects of muslims in iraq) quarells but these quarells will come into an end (as it is predicted by experts) after the fpormation of a purely democratic iraqi state. the iraqi people do not and will never accept the american army.
The only objective of the american army was to demolish the saddam rule which has be done so there is no need for the american army to say any more in iraq, this is for the betterment of both the american soldiers and the iraqi's. i think i have answered it correctly. thank you!

Answer 3

At this point, bringing our troops out of Iraq would not improve the Iraqi situation greatly. There is going to be a power struggle there between the factions that want to control the nation. The problem is that the U.S. is currently engaged in a police action and merely keeping a kind of tenuous peace through martial law. We are not helping to resolve the political and religious differences of the Iraqi people and there is no clear victory. The U.S. strategy is not helping and, by the way this is not a liberal view. Conservative talk show folk will label an exit stategy as liberal to avoid having to make a clear and convincing case for their lack of any strategy.

Answer 4

So what's your proposal, keep our troops there indefinitely? We supposedly went to war in Iraq because of WMD's, and to oust Saddam. There were no WMD's, Saddam is no longer in the equation and Bush wants to send in more troops??? Who's side are we on over there??? The Shiites, the Sunni's?? We're asking our military to do an impossible task and expanding their tours of duty to 3 and 4 tours. Do we really believe that at some point in the future this sectarian violence will end because we are there??? If so then why does it continue and worsen as days go by. I'm prior military and I think our troops deserve better and I think the Iraqi people deserve better. What are we really doing there?

Answer 5

I wish the United States to return to a state of military and political neutrality. Bring all our troops home from the more than 900 military bases worldwide. I want us to stop spending 1/3 of our budget on the military. I want the Air Force to have bake sales instead of schools. I never want the President to have a standing army from which to choose a number of invaders. That is not the America I want to live in.

Whose situation will be aided by bringing the American troops home from Iraq? Everyone in America will be relieved that our experiment in forcing democracy upon a people that did not invite us there has ended, and that there will be no more American kids killed in that experiment. Bring the troops home and let Iraqis decide their own future. If they are set on killing each other first, then we can't stop that anyway.

Answer 6

a million. The conflict isn't over, we are only walking removed from it. 2. There are nonetheless 50,000 troops there. you may call them non-warring events, in spite of the incontrovertible fact that they are nonetheless in a conflict zone. 3. This became into an execution of a plan put in place in the previous Obama took workplace. accept as true with it or hate it, it relatively is on Bush and not Obama. 4. Obama will in all probability attempt to take credit for this as he's grasping for something beneficial. 5. sure, some individuals are gullible or do in basic terms no longer prefer to look on the fact. further and further are waking up, nonetheless.

Answer 7

There are many reasons, but I will try to be brief and clear:

The Iraqis want us to leave, latest polls I've read say somewhere around 70%.

The US servicemembers don't think we're making things better there, and in a Stars & Stripes poll last March of active-duty personnel in Iraq, about 70% of our own troops said we should be out within a year.http://www.estripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=34538&archive=true

The bipartisan panel of elder statesmen commissioned by the president to study the issue made 73 unanimous recommendations, one of which was that the US should withdraw from Iraq by 2008.

The unified assessment of ALL of the US intelligence agencies last year was that the presence of US troops in Iraq is making the terrorism issue worse rather than better. http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/09/24/iraq/main2036338.shtml

The last question to ask yourself is: How would you respond to the prolonged presence of uninvited foreign troops in YOUR neighborhood?

Answer 8

With us staying there, it does nothing to bring the levels of violence higher or lower. The majority of the violence is between shiites and sunnis, or iraqi vs iraqi if you will. We don't want to call it a civil war because that is ugly terminology. We were justified entering Iraq initially and we did our job well, but we are not a police force. I'm tired of the political argument over the military and its purpose there. We have done very good things for Iraq, we have rebuilt schools and hospitals and homes, but the media doesnt really show that side. I'm tired of the democrats vs republicans and im tired of being stuck in the middle of it. I have just returned from baghdad only a few months ago and hope to never return. My solution you ask? I would like to see us leave completely and let the Iraqis fix their country how they see fit, with them knowing that if they step out of line, we will roll through their cities like we did when we rolled through their army in 100 hours. I want to leave because im tired of seeing my friends die being caught in the middle of a stupid religious conflict, and thats what it is, people willing to kill for a religion, that makes absolutely no sense to me.

Answer 9

Sending our troops to Iraq was wrong in the 1st place. It has caused more violence to erupt & created more terrorists than we ever had before. Even the Generals & those that know much more about war than Bush are saying that it is hopeless to send more troops & that his plan won't work. We need our troops home so they can protect us here in the event that they have already secretly invaded us and are planning our attack in our own homeland. With most of our military in Iraq, it will be leaving us virtually defenseless.
Saddam is already dead, we should leave the Iraquis to fight their own war & settle their own differences by themselves

Answer 10

The United States forces in Iraq are slowly bleeding to death with no clear objective in sight.

You need to define what you mean by "improve the situation." If you feel that this war was wise and just and will lead to the democratization of the Middle East, then I'd challenge you to define how you think that is going to happen as a result of our involvement.

I would respectfully submit that democratization of the Middle East will only come about when we hold our allies to the same moral and legal standards to which we hold our enemies. I mean, if we really care about democracy in the Middle East, why aren't we declaring war on Saudi Arabia, which routinely executes people for what are considered "victimless crimes" in a Western democracy - homosexuality, adultery, etc.? And women don't even have the freedom to vote!

The US doesn't even try to put pressure on Saudi Arabia to change. Why? Because we don't REALLY care about democracy and freedom for anyone else ... just ourselves.

Same thing with Israel - the US provides $40-billion in aid every year to this "island of democracy in the Middle East." And to be sure, Israel IS a democracy ... unless you're a Palestinian and can't vote. The settlements in the West Bank and Gaza Strip are illegal (if anyone cares about International Law) but has the US ever said "If Israel doesn't dismantle those settlements, the US is going to cut back or eliminate aid"? No. We might make timid suggestions like "the settlements are going to be a roadblock in negotiations" but we never make any demands of the Israelis.

Turning back to Iraq and your question, you may be right that bringing the troops home will not improve the situation amongst Iraqis. But is it reasonable to assume or predict that American troops placed in the middle of what has devolved into a civil war (exacerbated by longstanding tribal, religious and historical differences) are going to have a positive effect on the situation when our entire foreign policy is so blatantly hypocritical?

Again, if you really care about spreading democracy and freedom, then you have to demand that our government and its allies be held to the same moral and legal standards to which we hold others.

One last note - for the record, so-called "liberals" in the American government are just as much to blame for supporting tyrannical regimes as are the Republicans. Historically, both Democrats and Republicans are largely united when it comes to our foreign policy objectives. There may be the occasional difference of opinion with respect to strategy, but the imperialist assumption that the US has the right (sometimes referred to as "the duty") to go in to other countries, exploit their natural resources and cheap labor markets, is rarely, if ever, questioned.