Is the Iraq War off mission?

Question

The mission was to hunt down the terrorists who did 9/11 and even though we said we would enter any country harbouring him, we know he is in Pakistan but we invaded Iraq instead of going into Pakistan and getting him.

The Iraqi people never asked us to save them from Saddam and there are leaders as bad or worse than him out there in the world, Iraq was in no position to be a credible threat to us at the time of invasion.

Just like the war between the USSR and Afghanistan bad men are using it to recruit and train future terrorists and the longer we are in Iraq, the more terrorists are being created and that is a bigger more credible threat than Saddam ever was.

It seems to me that we are off mission in Iraq and we should get out as soon as we can and get back to hunting down al Qaida, what do you think?

bajricf, please keep your disgusting anti-semetic hate speech to yourself.

Roadkill, the entire world knows there were no nuclear weapons found in Iraq, not even a nuclear program. We knew before invading Iraq that 9/11 had nothing to do with either nuclear threats or Iraq or WMDs. The so called "mission" in Iraq is a great misstep and not worth a single American life. There is not a single positive outcome from the War in Iraq for anyone except al Qaida. As a Vietnam War Vet I disagree with you that the war is over just because it won't fit into your philosophy. That is the problem with too many Americans, they think philosophy changes reality, but they aren't shooting hypothetic bullets, they aren't exploding theoretic bombs. Bad philosophy is behind the bad strategy and all the good tactics cannot change that.

Answer 1

I agree with you and your post. We took our eyes off of Al Qaida when we majorly decreased man force in Afghanistan. We need to let Iraq settle their civil war the way that THEY want to, and let the UN go in there to fix the mess. Bush certainly wont!

Answer 2

Yes, mission one was to hunt down those responsible for 9/11 and depose the government that sponsered them that mission is over. Although some of them got away into Pakistan. So we are dealing with those.

Mission # 2 was to remove Saddam from power, because 9/11 should have taught us that we can't wait for mushroom clouds to form over our cities before we act. That mission is also over.

The nation building non-sense we are attempting is what is known as mission creep. As opportunities arise there is the temptation to try to gain more than we planned. That seems to be the lure in Iraq. The possibility of establishing a modern moderate country out of the old Iraq was too big a temptation for the current administration to avoid.

I think we need to stablize both places as much as we can before we leave. But in the future I'd hope we use the miltiary to crush our enemies and let them do there own rebuilding. I would think if we waged the war in a vicious enough manner they would be reluctant to make threats against us at least in the near future.

We can never make our enemies like us. But it should be easy enough to make them fear us. That should be sufficient.

Answer 3

It sounds you are the one spewing hatred. Using the word hunt when talking about people is disgusting. If we knew where he was what would his death symbolize? Advancing the killing machine even further, you sir are part of the problem and not the solution. There is no war in Iraq, one was never declared. Congress wasn't asked, and neither was the U.N., but most important our Gov't (which if you haven't forgot is our people, not some white haired group of white men) If you are worried about Iraq right now the media has got you in the grips, and surprise, you are too stupid to let go. The jews are behind the media you know.

Answer 4

Over the years, that segment, the organized American Jewish community – in short, the Israel lobby – has amassed unparalleled political power through skillfully combining the wealth of its members4 with its extraordinary organizational skills to achieve what amounts to a corporate takeover of the U.S. Congress and virtual veto power over the presidency.
There is virtually no sector of the American body politic that has been immune to the lobby’s penetration. That its primary goal has not been to improve the security and well-being of the United States or the American people, but to advance the interests of a foreign country, namely Israel, may be debated, but it was acknowledged, in part, more than a dozen years ago by Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D-Ohio), who complained to an annual conference of the National Jewish Community Relations Advisory Council that “There’s only one issue members [of Congress] think is important to American Jews – Israel.”
It was no secret that Israel had long been interested in eliminating the regime of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and redrawing the map of the Middle East to enhance its power in the region.6 Initiating that undertaking became a task for key individuals in and around the White House with deep roots in right-wing Israeli politics. The attack on the World Trade Center supplied the opportunity. That Iraq had nothing to do with it was immaterial. The lobby’s propaganda apparatus would make the American people believe otherwise.
The first step has been completed. Saddam Hussein has been removed, not by Israel, but by the U.S. and its “coalition of the willing.” From the perspective of the Israelis and, one must assume, the lobby, it is better that American and foreign soldiers do the shedding of blood, Iraqi and their own, rather than those of Israel, the world’s fourth ranked military power. Such an accusation will most assuredly draw cries of “blood libel” from the likes of the Anti-Defamation League, but it is a conclusion that one can readily draw from the facts. The degree to which the present Iraq situation, as well as the first Gulf War, can be attributed to efforts of key individuals and the major Jewish organizations that constitute the lobby is what this article will examine.
The lobby’s existence and power well predate its alliance with what may be called its Christian fundamentalist auxiliary, which has given it unprecedented influence over both Congress and the White House.
On March 13th, 2003, during a House appro-priations subcommittee hearing on foreign aid, of which Israel has long been the dominant recipient7, Secretary of State Colin Powell took the extraordinary step of assuring members of Congress that a “small cabal” of pro-Israeli American Jews was not orchestrating President George W. Bush’s drive toward war.

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Answer 5

agree