So if the US wins the war in Iraq, what does the US get out of this?

Question

I still dont understand why we are in Iraq in the first place. IMO... we should of left Iraq alone with their corrupt nation, and still be hunting down Osama. How is this war going to benefit the US if we do win this war? Bush should be hanged next.

Answer 1

The way I see it...its a lose lose proposition.
Even if we "win"...we will lose due to the costs of the win in money, in lives, in lost of respect for USA, and greater destabilization in the mideast, even easier for radicals to say USA loves to kill muslims, Iran being a more influential, american soldier lives, etc...etc... I believe the appropriate term is Pyrrhic victory.

When a statement as I have just made is expressed, the warmongers usually quickly charge "what you just want to stay and do nothing and let them cut our heads off"? or some other fearmongering nonsense. I dont buy that we only have 2 choices....being warmongers, and sheep putting our heads meekly on the chopping block. I believe there is something somewhere in the middle of the 2 extremes that is the correct tactic.

Answer 2

There is no "win" at this point, but if we leave the losing is much worse. If we leave, the Iranians, Syrians, and eventually Turkey may try to annex parts of the turbulent Iraq under the excuse of law and order. This will be worse than us being there because bloodshed will be rampant. Other oil producing nations will be upset and the price of oil will go sky high(higher than it has ever been). This will cause crime, poverty, homelessness, etc. to be uncontrollable in the U.S.. The U.S. economy is currently (and has been for 4 years) making steady rapid growth. This will end with a greater failure in Iraq.
As far as going after Osama, no resources were diverted from Afghanistan to Iraq and all intelligence says he is in pakistan anyway, so we can't do anything. He is a non-factor at this point. The U.S. military has rendered Al-qaeda powerless. Their network has been destroyed. They have been reduced to cells and splinter groups.

Answer 3

Yes. I would like an end to the war that we can look back on and say we did the good for Iraq with as little mess and cost as we could. I want to look back and say we were efficient and effective, BUT, I think it is too late now. I don't see how that can happen, and I don't see how it can help us in the broader picture any more than pulling out would, even if that did happen. I just don't think it's possible.

Answer 4

Apparently, with all of the information acessible, you choose to believe what supports your viewpoint and ignore the rest.

Once more: Saddam Hussein was aiding terrorist organizations all throughout the Middle East including al Qaeda (top al Qaeda personnel were captured in Iraq during the initial phases of OIF1). The free oil he gave to Syria (2 million barrels a day) was used by the terrorist organizations that Syria sponsers. He also was collecting 'protection money' from the Saudis, Kuwaitis, and all of the other governments in his area, because they knew he would attack them with conventional, chemical, and biological weapons (like he did with the Kurds and in his 8 year war with Iran). With him gone, and a stable democratic government in place, it helps to stabilize the whole region, just as getting rid of corrupt politicians and local law enforcement in the Southern United States helped get rid of the Klan and other racist organizations that were allowed to flourish there under their protection. If you can't see that comparison, then you are truly brainwashed by the media or a useful idiot of the terrorists.

The fallacy that Osama bin Laden's capture should be our priority will be dispelled as soon as he is captured. The world and the U.S benefit if terrorism is defeated. If you think that the terrorists will spare you, you are sadly mistaken.

And lastly, threatening the president is a felony, and you have been reported.

Answer 5

We should have left Iraq alone?

Really?

Just let them build a nuclear weapon - like we suspected - when they wouldn't let UN Inspectors come in and look?

Just let Saddam kill a couple more thousand of his people? Let his son Uday Hussein continue to rape schoolgirls?

There's a difference between a moral delimma and a political one. But either way, we were right to go into Iraq. If they had allowed the UN Inspectors to do their job, we wouldn't be at war. I guess when the UN suspects you of building a nuclear weapon and you're not allowed to, you better empty your pockets, or we'll turn you upside down.

The UN doesn't have the balls to enforce the 17 resolutions Iraq ignored. So we did.

Setting up a country who has lived as peasants and serfs to think and act on their own isn't easy. It's a lot easier now that Saddam's neck is a few inches longer, but in the long run, Democracy kicks the crap out of Communism.

Well, maybe, poster. YOU might like communism. Why not go to China and see how you get along there?

Answer 6

Billion Billion Billion Billion of iraq oil that is the only
benefit for the USA
and is the only reason why we still there right now

USA never get out from the middle east at least for the next
300 years ////

US base
Camp Doha Kuwait
Camp Doha (II)
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/camp-doha.htm
Camp Udairi Kuwait
http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/facility/udairi.htm

Answer 7

nobody wins in a war my friend, as for your Q...the biggest benefit would be that the world may live peacefully partially and temporarily, knowing that the creation of destructive weapons are being halted, training of terrors are stopped at least in that area, funding of these acts are being subdued. nothing is gained by the US but the fact of having a confidence of living again quietly in their homeland safely is more than tons of oil they will gonna get from iraq.

tell me, did US gained something from the afghan war?
yes...halting the terror operations in that region that one day might hit american lands much harder than 9/11.
do they get at least a drop of oil from this country? nope.

how about the somalian operation of US troops guarding the UN forces to forward relief operations to hungry stricken tribes...what did they got from that country? nothing. dead US troops and downed choppers.

they've done 9/11, worse is yet to come. i say better safe now than sorry later.

Answer 8

The only things the US will get out of this is lots more dead young men and women and oil. I forgot 1 things else, they will be able to plant the flag in yet another country

Answer 9

Oil

Answer 10

of course oil,why do you think the war started in the first place????