A question for democrats that support pulling out the troops.?

Question

I can't seem to get anyone to answer this question, so I'm reposting it. Please address the questions, i don't care how your feeling about the current administration, I want to know what the democratic plan is regarding the middle east and specifically Iraq.

Thank You

What are the consequences of leaving Iraq at this stage of the war. Do you feel any obligation to the Iraqi people? Do you feel an obligation to the troops who have been killed or wounded. After all, the vote to go to war was bipartisan. What about the constant declarations of death to America and the west? Do you think that we will just watch all of that rhetoric, and the bombings just fizzle away?

Please try to explain your position to me. I just don't get it. BTW, these questions assume that the democrats will have full control of the congress, senate, and the white house soon.

Give all of us honest thoughtful answers, inquiring minds want to know.

Answer 1

i am a proud combat vet who served in somalia & this is what i think ; first of all i was 100% against the iraq invasion it was completely rushed into w/out planning or any clear objectives, that country had a stranglehold for 10 yrs of sanctions & boycotts they were no threat at all our window of opprotunity was during the 1st war to est a legitamate govt. but here we are spinning our wheels, now the entire approach was completely wrong & a misuse of our military tough love might work on a dysfunctional teenager but not on a region that has a deep rooted sense of pride & religous conviction alot of americans cant see that, iraq is i belive the cradle of civilization its where we learned to write metal working the first code of laws we first need to put ourselves in thier place & seriously think of how it would be if we had foreigners try & change our core beliefs imnot condoning the muslim faith but its damn near impossible to have them convert to christianity & if they did they wouldnt be accepted among their community, so we have to let that be, now as far as a tactical point of view as i mentioned befor there is no clear objective we need to define a criteria for success, if i was pres i would say to have at this point a working govt. that will embrace a free society w/ a viable infrastructure of education health care water & power, the basics to maintain themselves & promoting free trade & the elimination of criminal fanatic types that would imprison & torture innocent people for no good reason, basically i would want to make them a model of what modern society can achieve the could stand out among other countries as an apex of what people can collectively achieve, what we should have done & it may not be too late is to invade that country not with soldiers in body armor but educators& business types in suits weilding breifcases not guns it could be a slaughter but it would show nothing but good faith to try & make iraq the great civilization it once was at the dawn of history, hell it could be the silicon valley of the mid east, it makes me so sad the way things are going we are beating ourselves against a brick wall thowing money into a bottomless pit, & showing the world we are attempting to dominate a pitiful poor 3rd world country, but we started this mess we can NOT abandon it it is our responsability to fix it but sadly here is my prediction; because our bi-partisan system has evolved into mudslinging immoral aristocrats we will get a dem pres on next term who will prematurely yank us out & leave their future in ruins

Answer 2

The situation would be more dire and a good many more lives would be lost, but I think that is an inevitability anyway, I don't understand what part of CIVIL WAR people don't get here, this is a battle primarily between Iraqi's themselves now, I mean do we pick a side or something here, these people have to find the way toward self rule like we did first in the revolutionary war and again to preserve the Union in our own civil war, less than 20% of the recent violence had anything to do with terrorists, it's a feud over who will control the country and quite frankly I don't see how we, no matter how powerful our military may be, can lead waring factions to peace until THEY decide it's enough, and since the genuine middle class and the bulk of the elites have already left the country we're also having to face the fact that there really isn't a group with the skill set left to provide proper leadership if they did find their way, it's time to stand back and let the Iraqi's decide the future for themselves no matter how violent getting to the solution is

Answer 3

I'm not sure what the long term democratic plan to leave Iraq is. However, many of the people don't want their love one's to die. I feel that the majority of the people don't feel an obligation to support the war of Iraq. Alot of a Americans don't want to hear the many tragedies that are happening in Iraq. The more the army stays in Iraq, the more threats we are going to receive. The U.S. has to gain the respect of everyone by respecting others. Iraq has never been free, their culture will not let them. As in matter of fact, many of them liked the way they lived under Saddam's rule. What this country needs to do is fix its economy and help its people first.

Answer 4

The war was authorized by a Congress that was 1. controlled by Republicans and 2. lied to.

Having an obligation to the troops cannot include leaving them in harm's way. Having even more killed and wounded does nothing to rescue those who have been. Our obligation to our troops is to deploy them in a sane fashion on sane missions for good reason. Our troops are deployed and re-deployed and deployed again, regulars, reserves, national guard, on a mission that cannot end. Our troops have again and again honorably served their country, as they always do, and it is time we stopped misusing them.

Our obligation to the Iraqi people is to heed their wishes, and they wish we were gone.

Answer 5

First of all, our prescence in Iraq only fuels the fires of hate towards us that seem to be so popular these days. By sticking our noses in stuff that isn't our business we only piss them off and confirm their lack of understanding about our intentions.Second, what is their to win? Iraq is thouroughly divided and can only become dmocratic under its own power, an overbearing group of foreigners have no way of imposing it against their will. As far as the troops go, wouldn't it make more sense to save more lives than to have thousands more die needlessly so we can vindicate those who have already perished. Logically speaking, we are taking them out of harms way. They did a great job and should be commended, but we don't thank them by letting them get killed.

Answer 6

"What are the consequences of leaving Iraq at this stage of the war."

I don't know. No one does. The same fear mongering war mongers that started this war should have considered that first. They fear mongered and lied to get the US to invade. Now they want to fear monger the US out of leaving.

"Do you feel any obligation to the Iraqi people?"

No more than my obligation toward every good human being on earth. I wish the neo-cons were as concerned about saving people in their neighboring states as they are about "saving" the world. Truth be told, they don't care about the Iraqis, they only care about their egos.

"Do you feel an obligation to the troops who have been killed or wounded."

Yes. This is why I consider Bush to be scum and would like to save the ones who are still alive and uninjured.

Answer 7

Solve the Iraqi Refugee Crisis.

Find a political solution.

Hold hearings back here, make sure the people who led this quagmire are thrown in jail for human rights violations.

Answer 8

I PREDICTED THIS TYPE OF QUESTION OVER A YEAR AGO NOW SUDDENLY YOU CARE ABOUT THE IRAQI PEOPLE....BUT A YEAR AGO THEY WERE ALL TERRORISTS,,,BTW THE BULK OF THE SURVIVING POPULACE OF IRAQ HAS FLED TO OTHER COUNTRIES