What good will come from pulling the troops out?

Question

As a liberal I am completely against the war because of Bush's lies about the causes of why we should have invaded the war. Bush has totally failed miserably, there is no doubt about that. He is in a totall mess that he cannot get himself out. If we leave, thousands of Iraqis will die. In conclusion that will completely reflect the failures of the Democrats.

Instead of that, shouldn't the Democrats take the lead and use proper strategic plans and show Bush and his lover fans neo-cons and repubs that Liberals can clean Bush's mess up and DO IT TEN TIMES BETTER?

Answer 1

Well said...Although I don't share your political views I do definitely agree with you on this point....We should all be pulling together to come up with a successful strategy to ensure the safety of the Iraqi people and to leave that country in a better place then what we found there. At this point it isn't about WMD's or who said what and when but it is about how do we make peace with honor.

Answer 2

The only good that will come out of pulling our troops
out before the job is finished is that we can then rightly
blame the Democrats for the failure. Frankly, Bush did\
not lie about getting us into the war. Clinton and most all
the other politicians voted to send troops also after 911
and all got the same intelligence report about wmd. You
do know that Saddam had the wmd and while waiting on
UN inspectors which took 6 months, he moved the wmd
on passenger planes to Syria. When things weren't going
so good, then Democrats retreated and were suddenly
against the war (too late). The mess you talk about has been
gradually getting better for the Iraq good citizens. The dictators were murdering their own people before we ever
went there so if the American media had been reporting
at that time, we'd still be hearing 26, 50 dead today every
day. Remember, our troops volunteered to be over there
and many of them, more than one or two sessions.

Answer 3

Yes, I believe that the Liberals can make a better US than any Rebuplican. What I think that would be useful if the soilders were pulled out is that we can finally get out of the Iraq people's hair and help the war inside the country. Such as the after effects of Katrina, Bush has created such a mess.

What do you mean the Iraqis will die once we leave? You are right in a sense, we shouldn't do what has happened in WWI. Where we didn't clean up the mess in the beginning. So how about we clean up the mess and leave there people and culture be. Spreading Democracy into any area isn't going to happen. That's is like asking me not to be an artist. We will force people to not be who they are if we infect Democracy everywhere.

Answer 4

The unfortunate situation is that we are now taking casualties and the Iraqis, 'good' and 'bad', are taking casualties even though we ARE still there. Pulling out will curtail US casualties, decrease the war's cost to the US and let a little steam off the Mid-East situation in general. Our military needs to rtebuild, train new recruits and rearm. The history of that area does not auger well for the area's citizens and we could even see a large scale regional war develope from this at any time. That is not our fault. AND stopping whatever might occur may be a bit more difficult than you imagine.

Answer 5

Your principle is the common fear of every single (D) official that fails to produce results in this war. How they could think that doing anything other than leaving Iraq, under a controlled deployment, with realistic goals is beyond me. The majority of the people are 100% withdrawal legislation as are a majority of Iraqi people.

I'd be in favor of Bush's strategy if ONLY--The continued lies and deception of this Administration would abruptly end and the TRUTH regarding the dire circumstances were factually reported. It's MORE THAN OBVIOUS that the current situation is DRASTICALLY WORSE and IRREVOCABLE under the current policy, as reported by our Media outlets. There is no proverbial carrot on the end of the stick.

Not even a dangling oil barrel.

Answer 6

The problem with this war is that it is a lose-lose situation. If we leave thousands will die and if we stay thousands will die. The fact is evenutally Iraq will have to stand on it's own and we cannot be there forever. So far, no one has thought of a good plan for staying or leaving and I doubt anyone will.

Answer 7

Why should any plan take more than another year and a half (the amount of time allotted in the Democrats bill)? We have already been there for four years, deposed their dictator, held elections, established their government, setup their army and are now trying to establish domestic peace in their country. When do they become responsible for their own country? Ever?

Answer 8

If your buddies have a better plan, then I'm all for hearing it. For the last year or so, all they do is complain. Big help that is! Now, they have made things worse. Can you imagine how the terrorists must be celebrating now? (They don't understand Bush will veto this disaster of course). Instead, they are making vacation plans, taking a break, and building up their weapons for our retreat. How lame are we to give an end date to a war! No wonder they think they can attack us at will!!!!

Answer 9

Apparently you are too young to remember Iraq already have been through that in 54 with the British they trying to establish the government of quasim and the CIA yes paid Saddam to kill quesm in 58 and 63 yes Saddam was our man if we pull now we save many USA lives because they going to do that sooner or later the prime who we support now his a dead duck anyway. you don't know what happen in Iran CIA put shah in power and at the end they got him.. and kick us buts out of there..

Answer 10

well... here's the question... do you want to stay there forever... and how much do you want YOUR taxes to go up to pay for it...

odds are... when we leave... many will die in civil war... and Bush certainly has no clue how to stop it... I don't... I mean... how do you stop a religious based civil war?

so... do you want to stay forever... which would pretty much eventually bankrupt America... eventually leave, with the same results, but just hundreds of more U.S. soldiers die from here until then... or leave sooner and save our soldiers...

if you see another option... I'm all ears...

I don't think there is a "strategy" to stop it...(besides genocide, which why bother removing Saddam, since he was doing a good job of that anyway?)

this "war" is 99 percent civil war... 1 percent terrorism from what I have seen... there is much more terror activity in Afghanistan right now...