I have a question for veterans about Bush's foreign policies?

Question

I am just curious what current and former veterans of the US armed forces think about our actions in Iraq. Do you agree with our reasons for being over there? Or do you think we are meddling in places where we aren't wanted? I'm not even saying what I believe. I am just curious how some of our military men and women feel.

Answer 1

I have served in Iraq and seen the difference between what we are doing there and the garbage the media feeds you.

If the American people allow us to succeed - we will give the Iraqi people a future and by so doing change the world for the better.

The thing I cannot figure out is why the American people choose to believe a TV news commentator who has never left the Green Zone in Iraq in preference to the service-members who spent a year (or more) actually seeing things first-hand?

Answer 2

I am a 25 year retired Marine Officer who rose up through the ranks from Pvt. I served 2 tours ( 24 months ) in Nam. Yet, I cannot bring myself to agree that we had any business invading Iraq. Saddam was a no-body that could not have did anything serious like attack our home-land. This war was based on nothing but bad CIA feedback and a lot of that was conjecture. I frimly beleive that if the Prez knew then, what he knows now, he would not have attacked Iraq. He should have went after Osama with as many troops as he did Saddam. We may by now have gotten the real party that was responsible for 9/11. But now that we are in Iraq, I fully support our troops and they should have all the material and equipment they need to protect themselves. I predict that we will pull out of Iraq within the next year, win or lose. It will ba another embarassing chapter in our history as was Nam. God Bless Our Troops. May they return home safe.

Answer 3

I am absolutely opposed to the war in Iraq! This is a tribal civil war and I didn't buy the WMD bunk I knew this would turn into an insurgent style war that will never end while we are there I served there for 2 years and know the people and the tribal system fairly well. I knew that one tribe will not willingly accept another tribe telling it what to do. That is exactly what happens in a democracy the majority tribe in this case Shia are telling the Sunni's the minority tribe what to do. Well it ain't working is it? Time to break Iraq up into it tribal parts and leave them alone.

Answer 4

What everyone is not getting is that this war isn't about WMD's UBL,or oil. It's about terrorism--where ever it is. Remember 'Planet Of The Apes'? If the good guys lose, the world is ruled by the APES.!! We are doing the right thing if we want to leave our children and grandchildren with a world worth living in. Mom of a Serviceman. God Bless ALL Of You!!!

Answer 5

Well, I am a veteran of the army, naturally not the US army, but an ally, Ethiopian army.
The problem with Iraq is just like AIDS, because the question is
not, how we get it, but how can we survive it?
So, now if you leave now and go home as the Lieutenant advocates, it will GET YOU WHERE EVER YOU ARE, and will harm all the good friends of USA like my beloved ETHIOPIA.
GOT IT.

Answer 6

I support the reasons we went into the war. We have made some serious errors (never a war in history that bad decisions weren't made)
A big issue that was not pushed for us going in was Iran, the WMD issue is another.... we know he had them before the war and we gave him plenty of time to get rid of them or hide them (Syria being a big suspect)

I support Bush and the war, I am even returning to active duty ....

Answer 7

I agree with the reasons I had to go over there. But now I know the reasons were lies. I'm pissed about being lied to and used. But above all the thought of failure makes me sick.

Answer 8

I agree completely that we should be over there. we were attacked 9-11-2001, unlike previous wars there is no country called al quaidastan there fore we went to the places where they lived. as far as WMD's Saddam was the WMD. he killed tens of thousands of shiites and kurds. as far as being wanted when we were in Germany do you think the Germans wanted us there??

Answer 9

I just always had a problem that as a person in the armed forces I swore to defend and die for my country, not a country that doesn't want us there like Iraq.

Answer 10

Foreign policies?. G W Bush is the only president in U.S. history who never had any Foreign Policy. Just look at what he had done. The U.S. is the laughingstock of the rest of the world today.