What are the pros and cons of war against iraq?

Question

Please list them as you like.

Answer 1

I'll start off with the cons since theres no pros. Cons: we now have to stay over there to in some way secure iraq from falling under the control of any government that comes along to "help" them (Iran's just waiting for us to leave so they can come in and take control),we have wasted our money on trying to make iraq safer-they've known nothing but fighting, and are not willing to change their ways, and too many lives have been lost. And another con is the fact that some people agree with the war!

Answer 2

War is always , as a rule disrupt the peace process . One of the severe problems with war is the deaths and casualties caused to civilians on the nation in war .It also pollutes the enviornment by the use of ultra modern weapons and cost the lives of many soldiers with their families yearning for them to be back at home . The costs of going for a war , both ammunition and manpower and transportation is a huge sum , that can give food and shelter to a million families if they are used for such purposes . There are no pros for a war , at least in my opinion .The above listed pros and cons are typical for any war including the one against Iraq .

Answer 3

Well since everyone is again the war soon you will see a country controlled by extremist and Iran that will be the headquarter operation for terrorism and they now going to have money so poor all of those country that are no agreed with them.

Answer 4

George WAR Bush

Answer 5

The pro's are, if the presidents plans continue, then the pressure is on to wipe out the enemy.==The cons= If the SEMI retired congress and the senate stop G.W. then you and I and the free world can expect Alquida to destroy our freedom.

Answer 6

the only good thing that came out of war in iraq was that we got the Butcher of baghdad sadam hussain.everything else,well you know how it is now.they are killing each other every minute by the dozens.

Answer 7

I'm cons because of the victims ( more than 600000 iraqi citizens and 3000 american soldiers)

Answer 8

We invaded Iraq not because Saddam was strong and an immediate threat but rather he was weak, problematic and control of Iraq and it’s resources would be strategically advantageous.
The tactical reasons are obvious. The Oil and Iraq’s strategic location from the stand point of military bases in order to control oil resources in the entire region.
The political motives are more complex.
Bush Junior and his cabinet for the most part objected to Bush senior leaving Sadam in power after the first Gulf war.
Sanctions started by Bush Sr. and carried on by two terms in office by Clinton had left Iraq in a terrible state in which corrupt government continued to prosper and carry out excesses against any that would oppose them, all the while at the expense of the people who perished to the tune of 1.5 million or more( mostly children) due primarily to lack of proper nutrition , lack of potable water, and lack of proper Medical attention all of which Saddam was able to blame on the West’s policy of Sanctions.
The motivation for them to carry out the invasion when they did and the way that they did was 9/11.
“Make hay while the sun shines”
Prior to 9/11 another major military invasion into Iraq was a hard sell to make to the American people.
In the words of PNAC (the Neo Conservative “ Project for the New American Century” ) an event on the order of Pearl Harbor was needed in order to gain the public support required to do so .
So it was not so much because they thought Iraq was responsible for 9/11 but more because 9/11 enabled them to gain the public support they needed to carry out the invasion and implement the mission statement of the Project for a New American Century (PNAC).
Again it was the OIL and Military bases they were/are ultimately after, WMD and Alkaeda connections were used as tools of propaganda and 9/11 served to justify and bolster the propaganda . IMHO The Administration felt confident it would be easy enough to find enough Al Kaeda members in the general population and enough WMD bits and pieces scattered about to back up their rhetoric once they demonstrated to the world that a thriving and secure Iraq was setting a model of Democracy in the Mid East.

It seems to me considering what actually developed out of all this the only honorable course of action left is that of reconciliation, reconstruction, and repairing the public security as best we can without overtly taking sides or trying to micro-manage a Civil War.
Unfortunately Iraqi’s have been left with little alternative but to fight it out till it burns out and some power emerges that restores public security.
This is not a solution but rather a situation that has arisen out of circumstance.
Plans of continuing on with overt demands for Private US oil exploitation, political manipulation and usury as a Military base of operations to expand the war on into Iran and Syria and restoring public security have been severally jeopardized through shear ineptitude, dishonesty and deceit carried out by the Administration.
If Bush would get off his high horse and agree to talk things over with Iran a little it might well take a lot of pressure off the situation.
The major driving force behind Iran’s nuclear program is the threat of a US military invasion.
They may well agree to back off of that situation and cooperate further with routing out terrorists and help secure the peace in Iraq if only they were given the chance to engage in a more rational diplomatic discussion other than Bushes Texas Cowboy rhetoric of " You do not speak with your enemy"
If he only took time to know his enemy he may well find out that reasonable cooperation and subsequent arbitration with Iran may well hold the key to the solution he most desperately seeks..
Jesus said something to the effect that in order to remove the spec from the eye of the enemy you must first remove the log in your own eye.

Answer 9

at the $ cost.. whe could have just bribed everyone to just stay home at this point

Answer 10

One could write a book on this topic. Be more specific, please.