If your AGAINST the war explain why your not WITH the terrorists?

Question

The Iraq War has two sides. The civilized world - us, and the terrorists. Its that simple, if your against the war and want to protest, etc. your FOR the other side. You automatically default to that position! Liberals please explain your position, spin it for me.

Answer 1

I'm against the terrorists. That is why I'm against this stupid war.

This war has done nothing but increase the number of radicals who hate us. It has made the world a way more dangerous place to live for Americans, and has given the worst people in the world a rallying point and a visible enemy.

We could have dealt with this in a much smarter way. Instead we have dealt with being attacked in a way that has helped the terrorists more than they ever could have dreamed.

EDIT:
Politicall Wrong:
I haven't run anywhere. I've explained my points and furthermore I'm right.. You Bush apologists just can't take it because deep down you know you're wrong.

Answer 2

Lets spin this so even you can understand this:

1) The Iraq war (occupation I read this in a comment and that is correct) does NOT have just two sides. It has the outside civilized world, the people of Iraq and the terrorists (some also from the outside).

2) There is a civil war going on. This fact has nothing to do with terrorists. This would be the same if you thought during the American Civil War, the South were terrorists. Give me a break. Both sides were fighting for what they believe in. No different with the Shites and Sunnis.

So yes, you can be opposed to both the war and not be with the terrorists. How would the United States have felt if France or Britian decided to come to America during their civil war to occupy the country. Almost the same difference.

So this is not like a computer that has a default setting because this whole thing is not that simple. You can not default anything. With many of these wonderful answers, I hope you have seen the light. If not, the Bush brainwashing technique is harder to get rid than I thought.

Answer 3

You have a sadly simplistic view of the war. First, Iraq was never the ally of terrorists Bush would have had us believe, and second, if there are terrorists there now, it is because we brought them there by providing them with another reason, and another locale in which to attack us. But most importantly you fail to recognize that our primary problem in Iraq now is not terrorism against us, but between Shi'ites and Sunnis against one another. We have created an environment in which extremists from the two sides vie for power with brutal tactics we can't control, and in which ordinary civilians are constantly at risk of being caught in the crossfire. The kind of mayhem in Iraq right now was not occurring when Saddam Hussein was in power.

Answer 4

I am not sure just who the "terrorists" are. Are they the Saudis? Are they Jews? If they are Saudis, what are we doing in Iraq. Now we know that there never were "weapons of mass destruction." So, why are we there?

My answer is this: We are there to drive the price of oil up for the benefit of the investors in the Carlyle Group, a private investment firm in New York. George Bush Senior, Dick Cheney, Condoliza and George W. Bush are all investors. Bush Senior is a traveling spokesman for them. Their investments include Halliburton, British Petroleum, Exxon Mobile, and Shell.
In my book, the "other side" is the ignorant buffoons who do not research, and make no effort to believe anything other than the propaganda fed to the American by the Bush Administration.

Answer 5

Being either for the war or for terrorism is a false dichotomy. The two are not related. As Ronald reagan once proudly said, one man's terrorist is another man's freedom fighter.
1) only congress has the power to declare war. please READ the thing.
2) absolutely no CREDIBLE link between 9-11 & Iraq.
3) only way to win is to permanently station troops there. Which was the whole point of the war anyway- oil supply not oil price. As soon as we leave the Iraqis declare victory. Because there is no DECLARED war and, therefore, no terms of surrender.
4) i am also against US sponsored terrorism as committed by the CIA, Army, Rangers, and other "elite" US forces.

Answer 6

First, it's not "that simple". At least to anyone who graduated from nursery school. Let's assume you did.

There are at least five sides. The US (and allies), the terrorists (whoever happens to be there at the moment), the current US-backed government, the insurgents (rebels and/or remnants of the previous US-deposed government), and the remaining Iraqi citizens who are not fighting.

The argument that we're there fighting terrorists is laughable, because (1) evidence indicates more terrorist activity in Afghanistan than Iraq, (2) the Sunni-Shiite-Kurd conflict has been going on for decades, if not centuries, and isn't going to be resolved any time soon, (3) the majority of US forces in Iraq are policing a civil war, not hunting down terrorists, (4) most objective military estimates show that the vast majority of terrorists are not in Iraq right now, they've already dispersed to elsewhere in the world.... and on and on.

As to your "with us or against us" binary mindset, that's just propaganda. There are many different reasons why someone could be against the current US actions in Iraq and still be opposed to terrorists. Your assertion is based on the flawed assumption that there is only one possible way to fight against terrorists, namely doing exactly what we're doing in Iraq.

You ignore all the more effective means of combating terrorists, starting with attacking them in Afghanistan rather than Iraq. Or using our troops surgically against terrorist bases, rather than committing them to police a civil war.

So, it's not that simple. It's not all or nothing. And it's not "with us or against us". That fact that anyone even thinks in those terms is both sad and frightening.

Answer 7

First off, Iraq is an "OCCUPATION" and not a WAR. The war was over 3 years ago. And the "TERRORISTS" are insurgents battling an occupying force. The U.S.

As soon as we leave, the Iraqi's can concentrate on building their country and stop fighting us invaders.

Answer 8

Al Kaeda regards Bushes blunder into Iraq as a gift from Allah.
Al Kaeda wants the US engaged in as many wars world wide as they can possibly insight the hawks in our midst to undertake and if they can get us to do that on false pretenses of WMD and false and totally unjustified revenge for 9/11 and as that escalates into the US mired into a Civil War and that further escalates on into Iran and beyond Al Kaeda will be peeing their pants in shear delight .
What they don't want is for the US to look favorable to the global community in the light of diplomacy , rational thinking , due diligence, patience and fair and respectful policy toward foreign nations, all of which serve to gather global cooperation in collecting and acting on intelligence to surgically isolate and eliminate the terrorists as they stand and where they stand without grandstanding coalition breaking massive military campaigns against peoples of nations as a means of persecuting individuals.

Answer 9

ok... unless u were deployed to iraq or afghanistan and know exactly what is going on then u can say u support this bullshit war...its sad cuz my husband is in the army and just got home from afghanistan after being there for a year, he gets so mad how people on cnn,fox news, and all the other news stations, and how they talk non stop about how anna nicole died, but over 3000 men and woman have died serving this country in the last 4-5 years and all u ever hear is, 3 soldiers killed today n iraq, in other news... or how civilians like yourselfs, KNOW NOTHING! and sit in your house at your computer running your mouth about it,, YOU DONT KNOW ANYTHING! so shut ur mouth...i proudly say,, i DONT support this war, I SURE THE HELL DONT SUPPORT TERRORIST and never have but i sure the hell support my HUSBAND that has to fight in it...

Answer 10

To be fair, civilization is probably the most uncivilized thing on the planet. I know you want to pretend that they are evil and we are good; but the honest fact is they are evil and so are we. This is a struggle for ultimate power between extremist Bush and extremist Islam and has nothing to do with the fight between civilization and evil and so on and so forth. God made it quite clear in the Bible that there is no earth government capable of good. They are all evil, "the whole world is lying in the power of the wicked one." When God comes back He will certainly wipe out the terrorists; but He will do the same to America and every other country out there so that He can install His own Kingdom.

To be truthful, the liberal leadership is just trying to get in on the power struggle too. They are not out to save us or help us or save them or help them. They just want to take power themselves. But the liberals at the bottom of the rung (and the conservatives too), that is those who make up the American public are just trying to maintain freedom and democracy and so on. The Conservatives are trying to prevent the terrorists from taking our lives with suicide bombings and such; the Liberals are trying to protect our freedom from Bush and his power trip as he sets up laws that give him the power to incarcerate anyone and torture anyone who disagrees with him.

You are so busy worrying about the terrorists at the front gate that you aren't paying attention to the empire trying to get in at the back door. Our freedom is at stake, and is about to be taken from us. Our attempts should be to protect it from the terrorists sure, but also from Bush's empire. But the basic fact is it can no longer be saved, Armageddon will soon be upon us. Look to God and Jesus, only they can save you now. Let go of earthly attempts that are evil because all of them have Satan's backing; and look to God's Kingdom as the only chance we have at life and freedom now.