For those of you that want the U.S to withdraw from Iraq.?

Question

Do you think that Iraq will become a peaceful place just because we leave?

If not why should we leave?

Answer 1

Sadly, such a withdrawal will rightly be seen as yet another US abandonment of people to whom we promised help. We did it to the Kurds under Clinton. Now we will do it to the rest of Iraq. The inevitable withdrawal being demanded by irresponsible and shortsighted Americans will damage our ability to conduct meaningful foreign policy for years to come and it will do nothing to make Iraq any more peaceful for anyone. This is a lose-lose proposition for all involved.

Answer 2

We are in hopes that we are providing the Iraqi people with freedoms that they have not had ever. They have always been an oppressed people and until they have a chance to evolve into a free people they will be in danger of being taken over by others that seek to rule by tyrrany. With all due respect, once an animal, acts like an animal until the children are domesticated. I mean no disrespect to the people and the analogy fits all human beings but is not given as an example because we believe we are civilized. It is by far the simplest to understand. You have to learn to be free if your born to captivity, thus it is easy to go back to the old ways when the new ways are a never ending fight, even in our country we continually fight oppression from politicians, the rich and the female gender. The Iraqi people will have to learn the same things such as an appreciation for freedom enough to recognize that it requires constant effort and maintenance even if you have a well constructed base form of government requiring participation of the people.

Answer 3

No, it will not become a peaceful place.

However, the current administration has had years to get the job done. and there has been little, if no progress.

So we have a choice to make - continue pumping money into the country. the Iraqis will NEVER stand up for themselves if we keep giving them free money.

OR - leave. We screwed up. Admit we made a mistake and go home.

I think leaving is not a good option. But it is a hell of a lot better then staying with no end in sight

Answer 4

We need to leave, but that will not make it peaceful.

Pro-war people are missing the whole point. Yes, libs and Dems understand Saddam Hussein was horrible, yes, that region in general is unstable, and yes, going to war can be justified in some cases.

The reasons for going to war with Iraq were vastly overstated. I have yet to hear a viable reason for going to war other than "bringing democracy" or "ousting Hussein." Neither of which are pertinent enough to send our troops in harm's way or put our country into debt.

Benchmarks that were promised have not been met by the US (the only one is revenue sharing) or the Iraqi's. If the Iraqi gov't is not given a deadline for getting their act together, they will continue to milk our resources to "stabilize" their country. Surely fiscally Conservative people can understand that. And if you can't, ask yourself if you would do your taxes if there wasn't a deadline? Or turn in homework, pay your bills, etc?

This war was badly planned and poorly managed. How can you claim victory when your reasons for being there are changing? Don't think for one minute that even if our troops leave, we will leave, the US ill stop sending monetary aid, or that contractors won't continue to work there. But the US should not police a civil war.

Answer 5

NO! But that's NOT the reason to leave Iraq. We have been lied to by every member of Bush's administration to stay there and thousands of our young men and women have been killed and tens of thousands have been wounded so badly that they could not return to duty within three days. We have made NO progress there and the Iraqi peoples want us out. They have NEVER had a democracy and they do not understand exactly what a democracy is or how it is to operate. We can't continue to pour money down a bottomless pit. The Iraqi peoples have not made a decision of wanting and fighting for a democracy. We can't be the policemen of the world. So if oil is a reason to stay - why not pull out and boycott foreign produced oil products and open up American oil sources? That action would put a lot of presently unemployed people back to work and we could then concentrate on domestic issues that are robbing our country! GET OUT, GET OUT, GET OUT!!!!!

Answer 6

The middle east has NEVER been a "peaceful place." Western powers have tried to dominate and domesticate that part of the globe for thousands of years. From Alexander to the Crusades to the British Empire to today's US. All, including the US in a most spectacular way, have failed.

Inner-city Detroit, Brownsville New York, East LA, Trenton New Jersey, the still-lawless streets of much of New Orleans...none of these are "peaceful" places, either. So why is it our job to police a sand-choked sh!thole that loots its own historical treasures and murders its own kin over prehistoric religious debates when WE can't, it would seem, even make our own beds?

Answer 7

It will never be a peaceful place, that is the point, there is no reason to be there.

The best thing that we can hope for at this point is that by telling the Iraqi government that we are leaving in X amount of time, is that this will motivate them to get a functional national defense force together.

Answer 8

Nope. It will continue to be exactly as it is now with shite and suni muslims killing each other.

We want to withdraw because we do not feel that we can prevent this from happening. The presence of US troops is actually in irritant and they have a better chance at working it out without us there imposing our will on them.

We went over, we took out Saddam and his government, we dismanteled the military, there are no WMDs... there is no reason for us to stay any longer.

Answer 9

Nope, that ship has sailed. Iraq has a constitutional democracy now, an it's their duty to uphold it. If they are unable, then they aren't ready for such an advanced form of governing yet. It's not our responsibility to hold their hand till the end of the century.

Answer 10

Nope! Thousands of years of religious war. Do you really think Irak will ever be peaceful? It would, however, be better than it is now and our troops would not be dieing for a war that is putting money in this administrations and big corporations pockets. Blood is on their hands.