Bringing the troops back home?

Question

Are you for or against bringing the troops back home? Why? We're doing a debate on it and i would like some ideas.

my assignment is to be against bringing the trops back home. so i need ideas on that point of view.

Answer 1

Why would you pull your troops out halfway through a war? That was done before in Vietnam and for much the same reason (pure politics).

We can never win if we always quit. It will embolden our enemies and it would not be long before we had to fight the same enemy only here at home.

The troops are grown men and women who knew what they were doing when they signed up. They are not school children who need the congress to represent them.

They are there cause they have a job to do, they understand it and they want to complete it.

Most military enlistments last four years. It stands to reason that most of the men and women currently in the military have already had an opportunity to get out during this war. But they didnt as evidenced by the fact that the military has had no problem fulfilling its recruiting goals and many are re-enlistments.

Let these people do the job. Support them and their goals. Untie their hands. Politics used to end at the 'water's edge'. Get this thing done and won, then we can bring them all home.

Answer 2

I am against bringing the troops home until we have completed our tasking there. If we left now, Iran, Lebanon and every other state with interest in Iraq would push the country into full civil war. Many more people would die during the UNCHECKED violence. What most people do not understand is that the US presence actually has deterred a great amount of the violence. Another thing that is never heard about is all of the progresses which have been achieved not only by the Americans but by the Iraqis as they rebuild their own country.

Our presence is acting as a crutch and a motivator for the Iraqis.

Answer 3

I am in favour of bringing the troops home because they are not going to be able to make Iraq stable. Although there is a moral responsibility to repair the damage done to Iraq, this cannot be achieved with the meas at hand. look at the number of troops available: about 150,000. Now look at US deployments in Korea, Vietnam, or say the Soviets in Afghanistan in the 1980s.

The numbers are simply not there. The 'surge', 20,000 troops, amounts to adding a canoe to the lifeboats on the Titanic.

For this gross error, Americans should hang Donald Rumsfeld, a civilian who played soldiers and lost.

Any country will go through a phase in a lost war when it is still fighting for pride. The US is at this stage. there is so much fundamentalist religion in Iraq that the extremists will always be able to overcome the thinking, progressive people. Saddam kept all this under control, through brutality and opporession. The US pulled the cork out of the bottle and have nothing to replace it with.

The failure is entirely political- NOT WITH THE CONDUCT OF THE US MILITARY- and Bush should be punished for what he has done to US prestige and influence.

Those who say the US could have 'won' in Vietnam might like to consider how the British could have 'won' in 1776: the Vietnamese would still be fighting you: victory would have meant killing them all. The US is equally unwelcome in Iraq.

Answer 4

Well considering the objectives put forth by Congress before the war began:
1. take out WMDs (none)
2. Remove Saddam (Done)
3. Establish a democratic Iraqi government (almost done)

The only thing left is to strengthen the Iraqi security forces and make sure the government that the coalition troops died to establish can stay on its own two feet.
Why leave when we are so close?

Answer 5

if we bring them home now hun it will destablize the country and the waRRING TRIBES THAT ARE BACKED BYE IRAN WILL TAKE OVER AND IT WILL BE EVEN MORE BLOOD SHED SO WHERE STUCK HER THE GOOD NEWS IS not that we stand bye bush but the inocent iraqis who are cought in the middle of it all it is a political mess that wont fix it self any time soon due to the fact that they never had no real plain to leave and also the plain they had for the new regime didnt work out so well so we at phase two regroup and reform

Answer 6

I'm for bringing the troops home when the job is done. A free, stable Iraq capable of its own security.

Answer 7

We would all love to see our men and women come home, but if they pull out now, it is only going to get worse. We will end up in another situation like this but it wont be as pretty cuz they will expect us to pull out again. My husband is in the army and as much as i hate him putting his life on the line, he is doing it for this country.

Answer 8

I would love to say screw Iraq and bring them home........but the truth of the matter is if we abandon everything when the going got tough that wouldn't speak to highly of how America solves its problems. The fight is not always going to be easy but it is often worth it to guarantee freedoms to those who do not have them, but are willing to fight for those freedoms.

Answer 9

i want to bring the troops back home. BUSH'S stupid self spent 64 billion on the freakin war.

Answer 10

They should bring a few back not all and they shouldn't send more becuase it is just wrong to send more wen it is dying off over there.