What are we doing in Iraq?

Question

Trying to break up a civil War? Trying to make a democracy?Trying to stabilize the country? We already won the War remember-we got rid of Hussein-no WMD's-Chalabi-(Cheney's main snitch) said everything is going to be OK...Good job-George-you and the rest of the neo-con chickenhawks had it all figured out.

Answer 1

Distracting the people while US oilmen sneak oil out of the country.

Answer 2

we are trying to stabilize a country that has had their entire infrastructure destroyed. it's the same thing we did with Germany and Japan after WWII. hell, we are STILL in those regions... you can't go in somewhere and do what we did and expect them to be on their feet with a solid democratic govt (which they have NEVER been a part of) within 4-5 years.. you cannot do it!!! we're not miracle workers. and btw, there were WMD's... what do you think ol' Saddam used to kill the Kurds??? bathwater?? get real my friend.. WMD's are other things besides nukes.. WEAPONS of mass destruction. and that wasn't the only reason why we went in there... which reason do you want?? umm.... getting rid of a oppressive and murderous tryrant?? or how about the fact that he broke just about every treaty law set for them after the 1st gulf war?? or the fact that terrorists used his region for training and safehavens?? who do you think we're fighting now?? you think these terrorists just grew off a terrorist tree????? no, most have been there all along. when we succeed in that region and have a democratic Iraq and Afghanistan, democratic ideology will spread like wildfire once people there realize that the western free world is not as bad as their religious fanatic wackos preach to them. all we have to do is weather the storm and stay the course... we can't tuck tail and run. you have no idea the consequences for that. it will be of monumentous proportions. you think it's bad now... wait till WWIII. and that's EXACTLY what will happen.

Answer 3

We have been at war with radical Islam since Iran took our embassy people hostage during the Carter administration. We chose to ignore this disease known as international terrorism for decades. We finally realized that we are at war after the attack on 9/11. The only reason it ended up in Iraq right now is Saddam overplayed his hand. He would still be in power if he had cooperated with the UN inspectors. He liked making everyone believe he had horrible weapons. After 9/11 we could not take the chance that he did and might provide the technology to terrorists. Since we were still at war with Iraq since Dessert Storm, we took the opportunity to take out his perceived threat.

The terror supporting countries in the region realize the threat to them that a Free Iraq would pose, have been supporting the insurgency with money and sophisticated weapons. The disease of fundamentalist Islam tyranny cannot abide the cure that liberty brings to the long suffering people of the Middle East.

Special note: Whenever any country wins a conflict a certain amount of die hard insurgency activitiy is always expected. There are ineveitably some snipers or sabotage directed against the occupying forces. But this insurgency is not like any other. This insurgency deliberately targets it's own civilians. Never has the world seen such an evil group of people. They deliberately target civilian hospitals, police officers, civilians waiting in line, market places, schools etc. This has never happened before so no one, not president Bush, not Hillary Clinton, no one could possibly been prepared for it.

Our brave men and women of the armes forces have adapted to and effectively dealt with this menace. It is so easy to sit back in your easy chair and poke fun at people dedicated to protecting you and your life from these terrorists.
It is so easy to make fun of the president, to undermine him in every possible way.

After all, fault finding is the most common form of unskilled labor. The question you should all be asking yourselves is what have you done to help support our military as they deal with these monsters every day?

This is not a game. If we are forced to leave Iraq before the newly elected government forces are able to keep it secure, real humans will die. Women will be oppressed worse than ever. Children will be indoctrinated to hate and to kill. Everyone who tried to help America liberate them will be killed, just like in Cambodia after the Vietnam war.

But if you know nothing else know this: This enemy does not want your wealth. They do not want your resources. They do not seek gold or land or luxury items. They want us dead. There is no amount of talking you can do, no magic words you can say. They will kill and kill until you submit to becoming one of their submissive minions.

What we do in Iraq will determine how the world looks ten, twenty, thirty years hence. What kind of world do you want your children or your children's children to have?

Do you want peace? Now is the time to fight for it. You can defeat them now or try later when they are much stronger. It may not be possible then.

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Answer 4

We are attempting to complete the mission we set out to do. The liberal slant of "Yahooer's" is quite evident here(chuckle) but I still believe in our President. Have we stumbled a bit,sure, good bet you have too in your lives. So, deal with it, make the best you can out a troubling situation and move on. I can't wait to see the democrats screw up, Monica, where are you? LOL

Answer 5

The American course in Iraq - which, since 2003, has zigged and zagged like a Humvee in a minefield - will have more success if President Bush displays better powers of persuasion back home.

Public support for a victory and the 140,000 US troops in Iraq cannot wane if Mr. Bush's myriad goals are to be met. His speech on Tuesday, aimed at lifting sagging polls, revealed yet another shift by Bush to justify this open-ended conflict. And it was also hardly the kind of stirring pitch that's needed to sustain popular support against the media's daily images of bombings, body bags, and burials.

The very fact that the president had to ask young Americans to enlist shows a lack of leadership so far in rallying people to a wartime cause.

The war's most public justification - eliminating Iraq's weapons of mass destruction - proved to be as illusory as a desert mirage. The chances of Saddam Hussein slipping a weapon to Al Qaeda, although possible and worrisome, proved slim at best. The final official report on that score, however, did find Mr. Hussein had the capacity and intent to restore his stockpiles, which he had already shown a willingness to use.

A less-touted reason given by Bush before the war - to implant a democracy as a model for ending autocratic, Middle East regimes that now breed terrorists - has only lately gained prominence. And for a while after the Jan. 30 elections, which saw millions of ink-fingered Iraqis relish a first step of civic liberty and other steps toward democracy in the region, there was hope of imminent sea change.

But the arduous task of creating a constitutional Iraqi government from scratch has been slow and not fully embraced by an American democracy that itself has become impatient with long-term goals and has grown more divisive under the uncompromising partisanship of current US politics.

A third prewar justification - one more related to Sept. 11 and Al Qaeda than Iraq and eliminating Hussein - was to take the fight to the enemy. It's now risen to the top of Bush's list of reasons to be in Iraq. Today, Iraq has become the place where, Bush said, terrorists "are making their stand." Indeed, an odd mix of militants - from anti-Shiite Sunnis to Al Qaeda-tied fighters to other Islamic fighters - has arisen in Iraq like flies to honey. Not by design, the invasion has mixed a civil war with an international war on terrorism.

The US military presence itself, as a recent CIA report found, has also helped recruit many new terrorists from other lands, perhaps leading to problems elsewhere in the future struggle. And Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld now says the US will probably withdraw before the terrorists in Iraq are fully defeated, leaving Iraqi forces to finish the task.

The administration's bungling during the immediate postwar occupation did make things worse. It helped breed resentment among Sunnis, who then began supporting foreign jihadists. Bush would gain more US support by admitting that. Instead, he paints all such fighters as a seamless enemy that will only grow stronger if the US retreats prematurely.

He's right that the US can't retreat, but the enemy is hardly seamless. Sunni insurgents are likely to be slowly beaten or won over by a more inclusive Iraq government. And Bush needs to push Muslim leaders to stick their necks out more and condemn the beheadings and suicide-bombings by jihadists. Killing terrorists is one thing, but the best course is to isolate them politically or morally.

The president's argument that the US is fighting for its own security and for freedom isn't enough. Nor is it enough to call for the US to show tenacity. What's needed is an America united against the immoral tactic of using the mass murder of civilians in the name of Islam or to restore a dictatorship. That can sustain the US in Iraq.

Iraqis themselves, by steadily uniting behind their young democracy and by eagerly signing up to fight terrorists, are proving to Americans that they want to take a moral stand. (More Iraqi security forces have been killed than American soldiers since Hussein was toppled.) Bush set those actions in motion, but he's been lax in persuading Americans to sustain that high moral ground. One or two speeches a year doesn't cut it.

Answer 6

Trying to defend you and those like you.

Answer 7

stealing their sand...our beaches really need it and the iraqi's simply have way too much of it and that's not fair...

Answer 8

u fight bc of gas...

Trying to make a democracy?

yeah sure..democracy so u can came later with coca cola and mcdonalds so they can drink and eat and u earn more !

money money money ..all is bc of money and gas !

Answer 9

We're wasting money, time and lives in a war that never really had any meaning!

Answer 10

We're funnelling our tax dollars into the pockets of the major stockholders of big oil and the military industrial complex.