Why do so many people in America desire failure in Iraq, when success is achievable?

Question

For the past few months I have watched on the news of protestors marching and complaining about everything. It appears that the people does not have what it takes to win a war. The people are so weak minded to see that the media and the democrats are showing us all the bad things that are happening, instead of all the accomplishments we have been achieving. this is all part of their scheme to get control of America and weaken us. The people are becoming a problem and standing on a point of weakness, not strength. we are America, we should want nothing less than victory. what is going on with the people? If our founding fathers had anything to say, they would support victory, not retreat. they would want us to succeed not fail. why has the people forgotten the desire to win? we should stop at nothing to succeed.

Answer 1

Exactly! Why are most people against the war? It's the media, all they report are bomb blasts suicide attacks, etc.

We should look at this war from a diffeent perspecive. What does our brave men and women, who seved in Iraq, got to say about the war? We need good news, news about progress and accomplishments.

Answer 2

While I agree that the news outlets primarily only discuss the negative aspects of the war while allowing the positive(if there can really be positive in war) to go unreported bringing in the forefathers of the country to back up a claim is not realistic. When America first became a country it was through a war for independence, taxation without representation and the such.
I seriously do not know which side the founding fathers of this country would take, they were not known to go to war for reasons that did not concern the country. America as a whole has not been know up until the last 50 years as a country to go to war lightly, it started with Korea. The wars before then I believe the founding fathers would have supported even fought in if around from WW2 all the way down to the war of 1812, even the Spanish American War.
Was Iraq a threat to America at the time that we invaded? Probably not, although they were in violation of the UN and makes the war justified. The founding fathers went to war when the nations future was at stake as well as our way of life. Now we go to war to police the world, and the founding fathers wouldnt have supported that.

Sure media outlets need to have fair and balanced reporting, but it isnt going to happen.

Answer 3

Nobody wants failure. But neither does anyone want an unwinnable war. That's what they are protesting. And as fot showing all the bad things, it's because the bad things are the story, not a new school or a rebuilt post office. We didn't go there to build schools, we were supposed to have been tripping over WMDs. But now the the purpose of our presence there has been changed and the justifications altered so many times it's no wonder people are fed up since it just goes on and on with only hollow words like "victory" to sustain it. People are getting slaughtered over there, guys are coming back without limbs, horribly maimed and disfigured. And it's just going to keep lasting as long as peasants with RPGs shoot at each other to please Allah and out guys are caught in the crossfire. It's a useless struggle, democracy simply may not belong in all parts of the world. We need to get the hell out of there. Then, like Vietnam, we can say we won.

Answer 4

Everyone is against this war not cause they are cowards or they are showing signs of weakness, this is an unjust war. It has been proven that the only reason why soldiers are there is not because of terrorism, but because of oil. Why support a war for the wrong reasons? Bush has brainwashed the americans just like how the muslims were brainwashed into thinking the west is evil.

I am totally against this stupid war, but im 100 percent for the soldiers who are there fighting, regardless of what country they are from. I was in the army as well. and if I could, i would fight in this war today, not cause for the country, but because of the men and women who serve there. A lot wont understand that part, but those who were and are military will as well as those who are passionate about all this. For example, if you were to see a family member, brother sister, get beat up..or hurt. you feel it, you want to rush to them, to help them. Thats the feeling im sure a lot of people including myself feel when they hear and see of the casualties which happen everyday and for what?

You say success is achievable? its not. This is a war america will not win. Its a war america doesnt want to win, the longer they are there the more profitable it is for
them.

Just once, I would love to see a government figure fight in any war. If bush were to suit up in full battle gear, then my whole outlook to all this would be altered.

and another thing about the media. dont kid yourself, we are told what we need to hear.

This entire 9/11 has been a scam to begin with! those towers were brought down by the government of american again this was proven! so with all due respect, screw bush, screw this war. pull out, and get everyone out now. but that wont happen, we need the oil.

Answer 5

Here is an answer to your rhetorical question...but first mister fact finder where are the facts? I am one of those liberals when first asked to sign a petition to pull out of the war I refused to sign it straight away until I had more facts about our occupation there. We are not winning in Iraq with our efforts to stabilize their "democracy" first we have deployed troops without proper equipment (and that has been the case since 2003) and secondly we have destabilized the Iraq government and have surmounted a civil-war, I am not even going to go into the oil interests because that is where we are winning...get it?
The left does not want to see the U.S fall what we want is for the U.S to be all that it promised as a beacon of democracy. The "weak" you accuse are the educated people who can connect the dots of the past and don't just fall to the mindless dictatorship of this administration...In the future your blind faith in your political party and your thoughtlessness about past events and the present will be written in history as a contribution to the fall of this democracy not the people that try to hold it up to its word..."stop at nothing to succeed" sounds like a dictatorship to me...try reading a history book or two.
peace

Answer 6

People want one thing more than anything else. They want to be right. People believe the war is unwinable and wrong therefor we should get out. If we lose, they are right. So they want us to lose. The funny thing is, is that the goal of the opposition is not to win by defeating us but to win by holding out until the protesters make us leave. We proved that it work in Vietnam. Once we had a strategy that was working, we pulled out of Vietnam because people were tired. If we pull out again I would say that America will not be able to win at any other occupation in the 50 or 100 years. Think about that, if we pull out now, we will not be able to occupy another country successfully for 50 or 100 years.

Answer 7

What and the Hell would American success look like?
Some of us in states did nto want to see an unecessary war in first place but hose of you who sit on butts getting rocks off by watcvhing FOX boobs for bombs, having already killed over 1 million Iraquis in 16 yeasrs will not be satisfied until you take over country even ifit takes 3 million more and completley destroys the country. What will victory look like?
Pretty yellow ribbons on highway overpasses, a cold beer at the tavern as we tell how mighty we fought the unarmed infidels. What will Victory look like?.

Answer 8

I support the troops. I just don't want them getting killed in a country whose people don't want us there; a country who had nothing to do with 9/11 (while your boy Bush was holding hands with the Saudi prince, Saudi Arabia, where 17 of the 19 hijackers came from); by a moron who has no original plans other than what dick 'deferment' cheney and rove tell him.....the Nitwit in the White House and his cronies have lied and lied at every turn during this war, and until recently anybody that questioned this nitwit and his "plan" was labeled unpatriotic and a non-supporter of the troops. All of you rah rah chicken hawks better go read the constitution and remember dissent is encouraged and expected in this country....it doesn't take a brain surgeon to know that this country got screwed on 9/11 by the terrorists, and by the Bush bunch since then.....go wave OUR flag about that....

Answer 9

These pathetic souls are being spurred on by the liberal left in the media, in Hollywood, in Congress, and wherever democrats wander. How sad it is that the security of our country can be put into jeapordy by these politically ambitious politicians, or actors, or journalists who have forgotten the Clinton years when our security was so badly beached.

Is it even possible that the silent majority of Americans could let this happen, again? Is it even minutely possible that the American voter could get sucked in by the evil lies of the Clintons, or the shameless cowardice they displayed while in office? I think not !

You're so right about achieveing victory at all costs. To back down now would put this country into a losers mentality and that we can never accept. Well, maybe the lemmings and the liberals can, but that makes them the most expendable in the war against jihad !

Answer 10

i don't think the people desire failure in Iraq. they think, they have achieve what they suppose to do that is to rule out Saddam and free the Iraqi people from Saddam's clutch. It has already been done and it was a victorious. For my part, i think the troops already won the war. I think it's time for them to leave and get back home after long hard's day work.

Answer 11

Our founding fathers were isolationists, Slappy, and are rolling in their graves at Bush's "democracy from bomb bays" agenda. Noone wanted "failure" in Iraq, but we got it.

Your rambling jingoism shows that to you, war is like a football game. I hate to tell you that is a glaring misconception on your part and anyone who shares your shallow viewpoint needs to go and spend a day in the streets of Baghdad with no armor and having a pretty good chance of being sent home in a bodybag or to one of our wonderful VA hospitals.

Americans and innocent civilians are dying every single day in Iraq, for no real reason other than arrogance. We have no business being there, and because of the quagmire in Iraq, the Bush administration has lost sight of the real issues at hand and completely dropped the ball in terms of catching Osama bin Laden, destroying Al Qeada and making sure the Taliban is ruined and out of business forever.

you would make a great cheerleader - just like your president.