Recently I asked a few silly questions just to get a rise out of people (got some hilarious answers), and I've written my fair share of smart *** answers, but I this is a serious question.
A lot of people think the US should quit the war in Iraq and bring all our troops home. So what do you think would happen in Iraq if we did, and do you care?
Serious answers only please, I am genuinely curious. Go find some of my other questions if you simply want to bash me.
2007-02-06 02:59:11 · 17 answers · asked by Fearless Leader 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Success has a 1000 fathers and failure is an orphan.
Pulling out now is a disaster. The neo-cons have that right anyway. So it isn't a viable option.
An immediate pull out gives us a few rather nasty scenarios:
1)Even greater wholesale slaughter of civilians caught in the near genocide between the Sunnis and Shiites.
2) Terrorists set up camp unhindered.
3) Iranians walk in and with majority population support, crush the Sunnis and set up shop.
4) Regional war between Shiite Iran and Sunni Saudi Arabia as the Saudis seek to prevent #3.
5) Turkey could invade and capture up to about Kirkuk. This would give them vast oil reserves and simultaneously severely hamper the Kurds in their bid for independence.
6) Hello 100.00 OPEC Reference Basket oil.
2007-02-06 03:30:57 · answer #1 · answered by jw 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It will be a mess no matter what we do! Remember its a mess now and getting worse every day. It must be remembered that Saddam kept these disparite groups under a jackboot for 25 years. We cracked the egg now we are trying to put the yolk back in and repair the shell. The bloody civil war will continue, but all of the fighting against us will cease which might ease things up a bit. This war does not have an end or a plan, the whole idea was for it to last as long as possible, thats why there has never been a clear plan to get out, they DONT want to get out. FYI, I will always bash you when you put up a rhetorical question about OBAMA and OSAMA which was only a shallow attempt to connect the names.
2007-02-06 11:07:15 · answer #2 · answered by chucklogic 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
it would be a disaster!! those Sunni's will massacre those Iraqis and that country will have a full scale Civil War!! What the united states is doing is all well in good. but we been there for four years and how much was accomplished. seems like we are wasting all of this money to defend those people suppose it were us? do you think they would help us!! i think it is high time those Iraqi's people take more responsibility and stop hiding behind us!! we should give them 6 more months!! and if they can't handle the job! then we should Pull our Troops Out!! and don't send them back over there.
2007-02-06 11:09:00 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
There would be a proxy civil war fought between Shiite Muslims in the south supported by Iran and Sunni Muslims supported by Saudi Arabia. The Muslims would fight eachother for a few years, lilkely including non-conventional weapons in the war and further destabilizing the region.
Furthermore, the Kurds would likely agitate for autonomy, creating a smouldering insurgency in parts of Kurdish Turkey which would be repressed by the Turks.
2007-02-06 11:05:07 · answer #4 · answered by Jeremy B 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
America had no business going there in the first place. You cant help a country that doesnt want to be helped. Troops should leave and go to places like Darfur or Sudan where people really need help. But unfortunately these places dont have oil, so Bush of course wont send troops there... Troops are dying for no reason in Iraq. No weapons of mass destruction, no Osama (wasnt that one of the main reasons for going to the Mid east in Afghanistan?) I mean why are troops in Iraq?
2007-02-06 11:05:09 · answer #5 · answered by diva 6 · 1⤊ 3⤋
It becomes Syria, but with massive OIL deposits and money. Meaning, Iraq and Russia and China would rush in and divy-up the country. China would become a player in the Middle East, like you haven't seen. There would be 100,000s of Chinese living in Iraq and running country.
2007-02-06 11:10:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nuclear war, plain and simple. If we leave Iraq then Iran would take over, and put them close enough to Israel, they have already said they want to push Israel into the sea, they, with the help of Syria and the Palestinians and Lebanese will attack Israel and if Israel begins to lose they will use their nuclear weapons, they have no choice. So now we have nuclear war in the middle east and even if no one else goes nuclear we would still have a world wide loss of oil, so all nations economies would fail, So anarchy world wide. This is Armageddon.
2007-02-06 11:04:50 · answer #7 · answered by 007 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋
We will pull out of Iraq only to reposition our forces at the Battle of Meggado. Watch, be ready.
2007-02-06 11:05:36 · answer #8 · answered by Kwan Kong 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Same thing that will happen if we stick around for 5 more years. As soon as we leave Iraq goes to Hell, fights it out for themselves and whoever wins wins it. Thats gonna happen if we pull out tomorrow, or if we stick around for 5 more years and pull out then. Iraq is a failure.
2007-02-06 11:02:17 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
I don't think we should pull out altogether, but we should shift our forces to the borders and let the Iraqis fight their own civil war. The Iraqis don't want us there and the majority of Americans don't want us there, so who are we helping? As for what will happen, I don't really care. We got rid of Sadaam, rebuilding their country is the Iraqi's responsibility.
2007-02-06 11:03:51 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋