Looking at 2007; do you think our troops will come home?

Question

I am hardly nieve but for this cause I only have hope. What are your thoughts on the Iraq policy & the battle of our troops returning home?

Wishful thinking (hoping) never hurt anyone. But I thank you for your time to answer my question. The news today sparked my "hope" that our troops would return soon. I guess the time frame of "2007" was very much far fetched. I just do not want to see another mother crying for the loss of her son/or daughter, I don't want to hear about children dying and I don't want to see the pain in another solider's eyes....I thank we can all relate that the pain is enough; especially in a war that cannot be won.

Answer 1

All I know is I joined after 9/11 to serve my country only to get *****-slapped along with the 9/11 victims' families when we started chasing a made-up enemy across the desert. 2007 is my ETS and I am coming home!

Or dying first. :(

Answer 2

Sadly I don't think that they will be home by the end of 2007. I think we will be waiting a LONG TIME for Iraqi's to build there military up enough to take care of themselves. We shouldn't even be worried about them over there. I understand why we went to Afganistan but we should have came home after that and not went straight to Iraq thinking they had "weapons of mass destruction". Did we find any there? No. We are contemplating on attacking Iran for that now. There needs to be some major changes in the military intelligence. They are sending our troops everywhere and anywhere and we are losing more and more each day.

Answer 3

No, as long as Bush thinks he has some chance of rescuing his obscene legacy, he has no issue with letting kids die while he cuts the VA hospitals, yet has a tax cut for the rich as well in his current version of his budget!! Either a Democrat gets elected or the Dem's start putting restrictions on War money. While at it, they can take a shot at 500 millionaires made from our deficit spending in Iraq! None were in the military!

Policy? What policy? Our guys have been target practice for over 4 years, longer than WW II,with 50,00 wounded or killed! Nothing was done until the democrat election! We are in a civil war that is between Iraqi's! Why should he care who gets in as prime minister? We didn't care when the CIA overthrew an elected government in Iran to put in Pro US Oil, the Shaw of Iran!

I think the more pressure we put on Bush, the more likely he is to get them out, but he has been doing a lot of sabre rattling with Iran over nothing they can prove, and nothing that warrants another pre-emptive attack! They had nothing to do with 9/11!! Bush would love to attack them though, for OIL!

Iraq was a war that was based on Bush Lies (Even documents he knew were forged and forgot to tell anyone), and never should have been allowed to happen, and it probably would not have if Bush had been honest, He knew that Iraq had no nukes or yellow cake from Africa as found by Ambassador Wilson. who Bush then leaked the name of his wife, Valerie Plame, and undercover CIA agent, which, according to his father, is treason! He knew there were no WMD's, he knew there were no terrorist and he knew that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11! In fact, he knew Iraq was no threat. Yet he fed congress and the people with lies!

Bush said there would be withdrawls of troops in 2009! Ironically, he won't be in office!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN5yvoIsnnE

Answer 4

Short answer: Nope. Not even going to happen in 2009. If the next president wants to maintain a relationship with Iraq, and other middle eastern countries, we will keep a presence there as long as we are wanted.

Answer 5

no they will not come home before the election, the liberals will never allow this to happen, all the rhetoric coming from the left is there to give the terrorist hope to hold on for the election, then they can trick the American people and use the war as an excuse. The liberals just do not care about the troops..

Answer 6

As someone not there, all I can say is that I hope for
your sake that they do, and that the Iraqies, stop acting
like children and realise that the time to rebuild is now....

Civil war is very debilitating for all concerned, especially
troops from other countries, stop the drama and war
iraqies so that those men and women, can go home.....

Answer 7

All we can do is pray and hope that it will be soon !! I am a military mom and pray every day for this war to end ! It almost seems senseless to send more troops to IRAQ because the people there need to stand on their own 2feet because you can't help a country who will not help themselves!! God bless us ALL!!!

Answer 8

they are no longer "stuck" there is that is what you're asking. the problem is infinately more beneficial solid than that. do not get stuck up in the melodrama American media feeds you. there'll in all probability be troops nonetheless in Iraq for a lengthy, lengthy time period. As one in each and every of our allies, we can construct bases in Iraq and use those bases as launching pads and preventing factors on our thanks to and from campaigns in different elements of the international. those bases would must be manned, basically as our bases in the type of marvelous number of alternative international locations in the international. The places of those bases and our aide to the international locations internet hosting those bases form the monetary and political alliances that make our u . s . the most precious in the international.

Answer 9

As long as Pres. Bush is in office, the troops are going to keep dying. I'm just lucky I made it back alive. I wish all the other Soldiers could be as lucky as me.

Answer 10

I think we will be in Iraq for a very long time. I am sick of politicians making "non-binding" resolutions. If they do not want us there then use their power to get us out. If they want us to stay then let us do our job and quit complaining. A side note to those politicians that complain about the military, just remember that we keep you in power.

Answer 11

IF and that's a big IF, we can get some things worked out with the Iraqi government in taking over their security forces with more zeal, then I see no reason why we couldn't begin redeploying soldiers to other parts of the world. While we are glad to help, we can't hold their governments hand forever.