Sincere question for liberals; What is more important to you?

Question

Preventing nuclear attacks and terroristic threats come true? Or abandoning the war in Iraq and bringing the soldiers home?

Wow Cassandra! I didn't realize that American troops were in Iraq raping and burning alive innocent families sitting in their homes! Is anyone else aware of this?? Sounds like you and Hanoi Jane should have lunch!

Answer 1

Bringing the soldiers home is not just the coward's option, it's terribly selfish.
First mess up the situation in Iraq, and then run away and leave all those people to their own devices?
"Good luck fellows, we'll read the newspapers to see how you get on".

What if you'd give a similar option to parents who's teenage kid is on drugs?
"Oh, terrible situation, it didn't go the way we expected, so let's run away and he can take care of himself?"

I don't think Bush did a very good job, but he doesn't turn his tail and run when things don't go exactly as planned; I have to give him that.

Answer 2

The terrorists from the Middle East are coming after the US because they don't want the US meddling in their country and economy and affairs of state!!!

Our foreign policies since the 40's have created Islamic anger towards the US!

Did you think they just got together one day and decided to hate us and attack us?

We need to get out of Iraq and finish what we started in Afghanistan! Bush dropped the ball there and now they are regrouped and resupplied and ready for the next round!!!

The US never should have gone to Iraq!!!

EDIT: The reason you don't know about these crimes is because American media outlets don't report these stories for obvious reasons. If you check into world wide news sources you will see things that are actually going on by some of the US troops and Blackwater private security forces Bush hired!!! Nice...Eh?
It's disgusting!!

Answer 3

Redeploy and get out of Iraq and the Middle East altogether. We don't belong there and never did. We can do a much better job of securing our own borders and ports and major ciites than we are now anyway. Speaking of nuclear threats, are you even remotely aware of how poorly our nuclear power plants are being protected from terrorism in this country?

Answer 4

Did you know that the CIA officer whom Bush had outed to protect his lies about the war was an agent collecting LOOSE NUKES? In other words, are you aware that to protect his war, Bush shut down a program protecting us from nukes? You really ought to learn facts and then form opinions, rather than getting your talking points from Fox and Limbaugh.

I wonder what would happen if 'well-meaning' neighbors invaded your family's house, burnt it to the ground, raped your sister, killed your parents, and destroyed your community's infrastructure. Would you be more likely to be 'terrorist?'

Since BUsh's war for profit and torture has started, terror attacks worldwide have skyrocketed - according to our own state department. Bush's war is causing more terror.

Of course we should stop doing evil in Iraq and come home.

I'm sorry, asker, that you are not aware than many troops have raped and killed innocent iraqis - our military has tried them for these offenses. You appear not to know about our murdering dozens of innocent people in abu graihb. And, hello, we've destroyed their infrastructure and entire towns.

What do you think we're doing there? Handing out candy and building schools? You ought to face what your country is doing in your name.

And, way to miss the point that Bush's war has made us less safe.

Answer 5

preventing attacks and terroristic threats (honestly) i consider myself liberal in most cases, but as far as the war i think we need to finish what we started.

however, as a mere citizen i dont know a lot of the ins and outs of the war, but i do know that terrorist groups dont like the way we live in america and will stop at nothing to destroy innocent lives for thier radical causes. i dont necessarily support the bush administration but i support winning the war and i think that we can find a better leader for our country to do that.

everybody else here is offerering opinions on information they have that was made available by the media and other public sources. the fact is we really dont know everything that is going on and there is tons of classified information that could or could not change some minds. trusting in our government isnt really a choice. once a political leader is voted in, its out of our hands. thats why we have a 2-party system of checks and balances, to insure the will of the majority or to meet somewhere in the middle. nothing the government or the president does will ever be good enough for some people.

Answer 6

They two are exclusive of each other. The largest nuclear threats are not based in the nations where we are fighting. The war in terror is being fought in Afghanistan (you know the place where al-qaida is based) By forces mostly comprised of NATO forces. I agree there should be troops there. However with regards to Iraq, the war had nothing to do with terrorism.

Answer 7

Fortunately, the two issues are not related the way you are implying.

If anything, they are related inversely: The more we dominate the
Middle East, the more terrorists we geneate. That is, we may kill
a few here or there, but the anti-west forces simply use those
deaths as a rallying cry to recruit more would-be bombers.

If the world really worked as simply as this question would like
to imply, of course we'd rather pay a few lives now (our soldiers)
than a lot of lives later (victims of terrorist attacks).

However, we're paying far far more now (with the lives of Iraqis)
than with the worst terror attack to date (9/11). 600000+ vs. 3000.

We do more for our own safety everytime we send people to
help out with a tsunami or invest in a country's infrastructure.

We INCREASE the probability of terrorist attack by trying to
force a culture to adhere to our concept of "good".

I completely agree that democracy is superior to every other
form of government out there - but I recognize that it cannot
be forced down people's throats. When you try, the results
are worse than a stable dictatorship.

Answer 8

That is a false choice. The idea that there is one way to achieve something and that the only alternative is the opposite extreme, is the ugly bastard of cable news.

Answer 9

They want the volunteer force to come home so they have a better chance of being killed by a terrorist nuke.

Answer 10

all of the above are important to us but to bush and his friends the only thing that matters is oil and the money he can get from it