should we withdraw troops from iraq?

Question

why or why not?

Answer 1

Absolutely and starting immediately. We're not winning anything and never will win anything in Iraq at the business end of a gun. The longer we stay the longer the stand off will continue and the longer people will die needlessly or even worse, for greed.

Answer 2

If we withdraw, there will be no one compitent enough to maintain what the troops have worked hard to reach for. With no one to maintain some semblance of order, the violence will escalate, and any chance of iraq becoming a flourishing society will go down the drain. Iraq has the potential to become one of the wealthiest and most prosperous nations on earth, as long as we go ahead and see this through.

Answer 3

Yes. Because there are no good or easy options for staying or leaving Iraq. The are all really, really bad but somebody has to pick one because the US military can't be expected to win a war in Iraq when Iraq is in the middle of a civil war. The only smart decision is to pull US troops out to save their lives. And that will mean major chaos, death & destruction in Iraq but that's already happening with US troops in Iraq anyway. Let nature take it's course by letting the Iraqi Sunnis & Iraqi Shia & the terrorists kill each other to see who wins Iraq. The terrorists will be so busy fighting in that civil war that they won't be able to plan an attack on the US for 25 years.

Answer 4

No, not until the Iraqi military has some semblance of control. If we leave now, Iraq will implode in a sectarian power struggle. If you think the news from there is depressing now, imagine the bloodshed without the US military deterrent. Should we have gotten in there in the first place? I was not for a pre-emptive strike but once it started we have to see it through. Our credibility will be nil in the world if we leave now. The world will be in sad shape w/o an altruistic US. Our European "allies" would do well to remember 20th century history lest we should repeat it in a much more dangerous world today.

Answer 5

That's hard to say. But I think open congressional debate on the issue is better than one guy sending the US to war after not listening even to some of his closest advisers. The argument that losing Iraq means losing the "war on terror" makes no sense. Terrorists are all over the world not confined to Iraq. And how many Iraqi's were involved with 9/11 - zero, zip...nada one! Also the US did not fall apart after losing face is getting the hell out of Viet Nam.

Answer 6

Yes, i believe so. I think that any chance we had of winning the war passed us by shortly after it started. There were not enough troops, the money was not properly spent, there were many mistakes made by the commanders, the fact that we did not allow foreign nations to help was a huge mistake, and also the build up for the war caused a lot of resentment in the U.S. and when support at home falls apart, the war becomes unwinable.

Answer 7

I don't like GWB much, but the removal of Saddam was a good thing.
Now US troops are caught in the middle of a civil war, and that is a battle they can't 'win'. (In spite of what Bush says)
Leaving as soon as possible cannot be regarded as a 'defeat', because it is not a 'war' that can be 'won' by a third party.
Especially if both sides are targeting US troops, and the US cannot be seen to 'take sides'.
Leave these crazies to battle it out.
Its time to get out.

Answer 8

It would be a brilliant tactical move for all the Iraqi's to wake up one morning, look around and ask....."Where did all the Americans go".

Let the insurgency rebuild the country, and in six months or a year, if we don't like the manner in which they do there business, invade them again.

It is a better tactic that turning our soldiers into pop up targets and driving the same patrol routes each day letting them blow us up.

Unfortunately, Bush, Cheney and the rest of those vampires are gorging like pigs at the Congressional tax trough while we bleed. Republicans suck....BLOOD.

Answer 9

Yes! This was a misbegotten misadventure from the start. Every day we remain in Iraq only helps to create more terrorists and reinforce the world's current notion that America is a nation of war mongers. In fact, many of us are, as demonstrated by Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney, who always seem to prefer the violent, rather than diplomatic, solution to problems.

Answer 10

Since all the so called intelligence that sent them there in the first place was fake......I guess the intelligent answer would be.....YES YOU MORONS!!!!! why is this still a question for debate? Havent enough families been destroyed? Does that idiot in the white house not realize in his quest to rule the world hes destroying his own people.......course you guys were stupid enough to elect him a second time........maybe you deserve what you get.