If it is "meddling" when a few Iranians enter Iraq, what is it when 140,000 Americans enter Iraq?

Question

Whose doorstep is Iraq on - Iran's or ours?

Iran has been attacked by Iraq. Has America?

Certainly Iran is headed by a racist wacko, but hey, they're right next door to Iraq. America is not. Which has the better reason to be in Iraq and seek to influence Iraq??

The religious nuts who downed the WTC were not Iraqis. All but two were Saudi Arabians.

We have never neen invited or authorized to try to introduce democracy in a sovereign Iraq.

You do not fight an ideology with guns. The only time I know of when a belief-system was totally stamped out was when the Vatican's forces led by Simon de Montfort eradicated the Albigensian "heresy" by exterminating every last one of the Cathars, banning their religion and creating the Holy Inquisition to make sure it did not arise again. Stamping out Islam won't happen unless you are prepared to be that drastic - and there are a *lot* of Muslims to kill if you plan to do that.

Our troops in Iraq deserve the best support we can give them, such as bringing them home. It is fuzzy thinking to say that they are "defending freedom" etc., when in reality they are carrying the pointless mission of a failed US Administration led by a deluded president.

Answer 1

The term you're looking for is "Invasion". You see the occupation was just a by-product of a poorly planned invasion. America seems to have meddled it's way to a new middle east for sure, but I don't think it's the one they had in mind. In either case, neither nation has the right to encroach on another nations sovereignty. In that respect, both of these parties are wrong.

Answer 2

Iraq is best left to it's own people. America has no right to be in there, because for one they do not own that territory, and for another, Saddam did not do 9/11. What is it when all those Americans enter Iraq? Conquest -- taking the place over and trying to make it part of the USA.

If we want to do anything with Iraq it will have to be political. If the Iraqis don't want us there then we have no right to be there. The only people that should be there are those who the Iraqis want there.

Should Iran be in there? Again, only if the Iraqis want them. If they do not, then they have no more right to be there than we do. The only territory a country has a guaranteed right to is that within it's borders, and that alone.

Answer 3

Perhaps we should have continued our inept policies of inaction and apathy regarding the Islamic terrorists' tactics of slaughtering thousands of innocent men, women and children in the name of a demented ideology.
It's really sad that you find our efforts to bring a democracy to an oppressed people so vile.
In answer to your your question - no - America has not been attacked by any specific Middle Eastern country. America was attacked by an ideology of hate and dominance - and, finally, America responded. If Iran chooses to supply and equip the insurgents in Iraq with weapons and explosives to use against our troops, I would consider it, not "meddling," but an act of war by yet another psycho regime of religious fanatics.
By the way, when the Islamic terrorists pulled off the events of 9/11, they were indeed on our "doorsteps."
Give this a thought - do we try and end this ideology, terror and murder now, or do we wait and fight them later when they are better organized, better equipped and more resolved in their objectives? Think of what was accomplished by minimizing Hitler's agenda in the '30s, ignoring his threats and underestimating his agendas. Estimates in the total casualties in WWII range up to 60 MILLION deaths, a full 50% of which were civilians.
You still think we should wait before we finally respond?

Answer 4

The difference is, Iranians are bringing in assets in which to kill Americans and Iraqi's. That's a no brainer, if you want my opinion. It means, you are intent to see harm come to me. For that, I will kill your @ss.

That's pretty damn simple, yet those liberal pigs in congress don't see it that way. They want to take away funding from the Pentagon so it can't retaliate on Iran. This makes me believe we have treasonous slime in congress. These people should be arrested, interrogated, and jailed if necessary, if it is determined they are in bed with Iran. If you believe my thinking is extreme, think again, I'm no more extreme than the Iranian fanatics who are the topic of our discussion!

Are you in touch with reality by saying that Iran has more right to be in Iran than the US? You damn fool, don't you realize that Iran and Iraq have been at odds since the early 80's. Further, the Persians and the Arabs have been at odds for centuries, and you believe that Iran should have a voice in Iraq's destiny? You need a brain transplant, fool!

Answer 5

I'm not sure I believe all the BS the suits in Washington are putting out, first of all. But let's say for argument's sake that they are correct, THIS time.

I would just ask myself this one question. If Iran is so concerned about Iraqi Shiites, why didn't they just wage war on Iraq's leader themselves and leave us out of it? The obvious here is that they couldn't. But now that Mr. Bush has taken us in there and created chaos; all those predictions at the beginning of the war (even before the war began) have come true.

If anyone has any doubt at this point that this is just a WAR MACHINE making money for those who create weapons and everything else that is necessary for war (body armour, "reconstruction" everything, all the way down to bottled water), then I think we are seriously dillusional.

This war isn't ending anytime soon. Get used to hearing about it. It's going to spread because there's money in it for EVERYONE AT THE TOP. It's really, really sad too that the families of the men and women who die, can not see the wrong that has been done to their children and themselves and stand up. I understand their sadness, I am empathetic, but I think a movement by the parents of kids (and let's face it, that's what they are most of them) who have been killed over there would help to stop this WAR sooner.

Answer 6

It cannot be said that "a few" Iranians have entered Iraq. The number is not known or will ever be known. I agree that Iraq and Iran sit at each others doorstep and that our attack was not justified but I back our troops now and would prefer now to see that we defeat those that would have Iraq as an terrorist state as is Iran and Syria.

Answer 7

you have been misinformed. We the USA under no circumstances fought any conflict to get rid of slavery. Do you advise the "conflict of Northern Aggression"? That replaced into not approximately slavery. think of logically, the different us of a in the international controlled to get rid of slavery w/o a conflict, yet not the USA? it quite is a humorous tale. The conflict of Northern Aggressions replaced into approximately long status economic policies that has placed the south at an severe downside in terms of progression of infrastructure, marketplace, and coaching. We under no circumstances fought any wars against communism. perhaps you are able to examine "conflict is a Racket" a e book written in the 1930, via a guy who (continues to be) the main embellished universal in the background of this us of a. Wars that have been claimed to be "approximately communism" have been very almost completely approximately lining the wallet of the militia-business complicated (keep in mind "Daddy Warbucks"). it could additionally be prolonged to our involvement in the international Wars. What result could there have been on American lives had Germans won administration of Europe? we'd have eu vehicles that run suitable? the nice and comfortable button is, it is in simple terms an occasion of yank imperialism, and the only way that American lives could be superior via this conflict could be if we did what the British used to do, and colonize Iraq.

Answer 8

America is in Iraq openly. Everybody knows that we're there. The president of Iraq is worried that we might leave. We're doing police work that should be done by locals who know the people in each of their areas.
America has been attacked by fanatics who were trained and financed by Iraq.
Iran is not the only place for wackos. There are pleanty here asking stupid questions, like the ones above.

Answer 9

Were you alive during September 11, 2001? Better yet what about past times when Iraq has attacked the US. Were you alive then?

Answer 10

So, what you're saying here is something like YOU think that ----if a country like say---the Russia of say 1975 were to have invaded ---like Mexico and bombed it to a pancake and had emassed 140.000 soldiers and untold firepower in that country---that America would actually try to reverse that in some way ??
Where do you come off with this kind of thinking--- America would probably just know to stay in her place over a thing like that ---- right ?? ( get my drift)
But, things are always different from the other side of the coin !!