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Is the war being fought wrongly...?

Why are American soldiers patrolling any part of Iraq...??

Shouldn't the Iraqi military/security forces be taking a more
active role in patrolling their own country/ASAP....????

7 U.S. troops die in Iraq violence
AP - 57 minutes ago
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military on Sunday announced the deaths of seven more troops in Iraq, including four killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling western Baghdad — the latest American casualties in a monthlong security crackdown in the capital.

LONDON (AFP) - The US commander in Iraq said Sunday that there are "encouraging signs" that a sharp increase in American troops will help quell violence in Iraq, according to a BBC interview.

US President George W. Bush had revealed in January that he was sending 21,500 extra troops into Iraq in the coming months, while the arrival of a further 2,400 was announced in March.

General David Petraeus told the BBC that sectarian attacks had fallen in recent weeks, with two of the five extra US brigades now on the ground in Iraq.

Despite the "encouraging signs," Petraeus cautioned that he did not want to get "overly optimistic at all on the basis of several weeks of a reduced sectarian murder rate," according to the BBC.

Petraeus was quoted as saying: "By early June, we should then have everyone roughly in place -- and that will allow us to establish the density in partnership with Iraqi security forces that you need to really get a good grip on the security situation."

2007-03-18 05:04:24 · 16 answers · asked by marnefirstinfantry 5 in Politics & Government Military

16 answers

No. My view hasn’t changed since the beginning. I thought invading Iraq was the wrong thing to do and I did not understand Bush’s insistence on invasion. I have always thought that we should have concentrated on going after and eliminating al Qaeda.

2007-03-25 12:54:34 · answer #1 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 1 0

We should change courses, and put the politics on the side. The problem with this war, from the beginning, is that it was run by the media and the opposition. There is absolutely no way that a war can be fought politically correct. This war has been one of the most unorganized things I have ever seen in my life. Everything is political....from the many decisions that are being made to the "rules of engagement" that our troops have to abide by. This is far worse than Viet Nam, but at least our troops are appreciated back home now.
The Iraqi police and military aren't even putting any effort into it. Many of them, we have no way knowing which side they're on. The President and the Generals need to put their foot down with this, or it'll just continue to be the mess that it is.
If we pull out, then Iran will invade since they're Shiite, and Saudia Arabia will invade since they're Sunni. It'll be more and more bloodshed, with no end in sight.
Since the history of man, there has never been any peace in the Middle East. These people have been fighting among themselves for centuries. I can't see any change in this anytime soon.

2007-03-19 07:52:57 · answer #2 · answered by cajunrescuemedic 6 · 1 1

The Americans, the Europeans, and even the Israelis really don't know what it is all about, do they? During the last generation hundreds of thousands of children have been taught all over the Muslim world in madrass schools to become martyrs for Allah in order to kill the infidels.

These youngsters not only are ready to do it, but are actually in the process of doing it. Bombs are going off all over the world killing and maiming thousands of people, not only on 9/11 in the US, in London, Madrid and Bali, but in Africa, India, Bangladesh, Egypt, Saudi Arabia and many other places. The first signs of the Islamic tsunami are already here, but the West doesn't understand, or doesn't want to understand what is coming.

The Americans, instead of realizing that this is as bad as World War Two, or even worse, are going to pull out of Iraq, handing it over to Iran on a silver platter. Next may come the Saudis and the rest of the Gulf states. When dirty bombs go off all over Western towns, who is going to stop the Iranians?

2007-03-21 08:26:46 · answer #3 · answered by Ivri_Anokhi 6 · 1 0

The amount of extra troops that are being sent in the latest "surge" is not enough to handle the mission that Bush wants. We are dead in the middle of a civil war and we will never win that battle. We need to pull back and let the groups that dispise each other to fight it out then we should go in and slap down the winner. To leave there now would demoralize our troops and our nation much in the same way that "Kissinger/Nixon retreat" effected the morale of the nation in the seventies.

2007-03-26 05:01:33 · answer #4 · answered by supressdesires 4 · 0 0

back interior the 80s Saddam became the enemy of our enemy, i.e., Iran... undergo in concepts how they shamed our usa decrease than President Carter? although he (Saddam) grew to alter into too vast a Bully... consequently we had to finally area corporation with this monster (which of course some will never enable us to ignore that we helped create). Then of course approximately 20 years later we had no way of understanding if this thug nevertheless had WMDs so by ability of ability of the UN and the "inspectors" we had in Iraq we've been suppost to be certain this as quickly as and for all. right it incredibly is a few thing to think of approximately... If we had no longer sent in a coalition of troops into Iraq i in my view have confidence that we nevertheless does no longer comprehend the answer to this question and not in basic terms the U.S. however the middle east and Israel may be consistently bullied by ability of Saddam. Oh yeah, if he did have WMDs, the place did they pass? Syria perchance???

2016-10-01 03:02:03 · answer #5 · answered by carol 4 · 0 0

My thoughts have not changed. It was a mistake to invade Iraq and it is a mistake to stay. "Mistake" is the kindest possible euphemism. It was really a war crime. There were plenty of indications that not all of what Bush and Cheney were promoting were true but the press and most of the Congress were asleep at the wheel. One can't help but wonder if this fiasco could have been avoided had there been a military draft and children of regular citizens were called on such a dubious mission, ill-equipped, under-manned, and ill-advised. How dreadful that we elected a man who pretends to be presidential but has no understanding of governing or of leadership.

2007-03-18 14:01:34 · answer #6 · answered by murphy 5 · 3 0

My fear is that the Shiites are playing games with us more than we know, and sadly, for a share in the oil wealth, a few top tiered US people in command are suckered by them. Iraq is faced with a Civil War, and it'd be foolhardy to believe that we could play henchmen to the anti-American Shiites and not have the dangerous game-play backfire on us. Remember, it was never the Sunnis who were anti-America; it had been the Shiites who had always been anti-America, but were clever enough to draw a few oil-greed and easily bribed Americans into their trap. I won't be surprised that once we help the Shiites and their al-Sadr groups of supporters to exterminate the Sunnis, these Shittes will come to haunt us. If they do, will the Iraq War Supporters go down in history as being those responsible for Americans killed by the Shiites? After all under the Iraqi Government, all these strange weapons seem to be popping upfor the kill; and those causing danger for our Troops seem smarter. Have we been training America's enemies without realizing it?

It's be hell for us if we're actually training those who'd backfire on us in the future. And we're sending 1 trillion more dollars into Iraq toallow the money to disappear the same way American $$$ went missing in the past? Who's pocketing the American tax dollars sent to Iraq?

The more Troops and dollar we send to Iraq is for the benefit of the al-sadr Shiites! After all so many Shiites in power in Iraq were once Iraqi exiles who took shelter in Iran. We're therefore benefitting Iran in the long run by giving Iraq as a base for them!

We should deploy our Troops and let Iraq's Middle Eastern neigbors sought out the dangers that could face them in the future. The Pro-Iraq warmongers are playing into the hands of the powerful and cunning anti-American and revengeful al-Sadr Shiites, They've planned the war on Saddam for years anf they know what they want. And we're just fools taken for a ride.

The Iraq War supporters have made Americans appear to the World like fools that are easily suckered into lies.

2007-03-18 05:39:58 · answer #7 · answered by United_Peace 5 · 1 1

Every successful war must have a strategic plan and the support of the people of the invading nation.I regret the large amount of casualities.I think that our presence is essential until the Iraqi people are able to govern and police themselves.To leave now would open up the potential of other countries overrunning them.

God bless our troops and their families...

2007-03-18 17:42:31 · answer #8 · answered by prettycoolchick38 4 · 1 1

of course. the war was a mistake. based on false and bad intelligence. of course we should pull out. all this talked about we can't just leave after what we've started is just bull. it's silly to see how Bush or Cheney would secretly visit Iraq and leave immediately, and yet they won't let our troops home.

2007-03-25 14:29:29 · answer #9 · answered by quinidine 2 · 1 0

Give the war to the Iraqi National (Shiite) Army & Govt. They will wipe out both the Sunni insurgents & Al Qeada both groups they hate as much as the US does, they know exactly who they are (unlike the US) & they don't have to use the US "rules of engagement" that keeps the US from winning the Iraq war.

2007-03-18 05:09:19 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1 3

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