then who won?
And are they a risk to us? Will we have to face off against them again?
Or is Harry Reid just wrong?
(I think he is.)
2007-04-27 03:23:07 · 9 answers · asked by American citizen and taxpayer 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Harry Reid is just wrong. We have lost nothing. We overthrew a violent dictator, and have installed a Democracy that is encountering less and less resistance.
2007-04-27 03:54:30 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
If you don't know the answer to this question you are incredibly naive and need to research the history of Iraq and the timeline of this ongoing war. The US and thier few allies lost this war long before the 2003 invasion when they imposed the cruel and inhumane embargo on the people of Iraq in 1992. This embargo has claimed the lives of countless thousands of innocent civilians, mostly children, by starving them to death and denying them basic medical supplies and other necessary means of survival. Yes, Saddam Hussein was a brutal dictator and was responsible for much of this suffering, but this embargo added insult to injury and only made a desperate situation much worse.
In the months leading up to the invasion Bush and his cronies made innumerable comments and allusions to "winning the hearts and minds" of the Iraqi poeple and being welcomed with open arms and other such unrealistic nonsense. The majority of Iraqis remember the embargo and are not so naive or gullible to believe that the occupying military forces are there to help them rebuild their country or improve their lives in any appreciable sense. They are there to secure and insure the control of the vast oil reserves and everyone knows it...
2007-04-27 11:03:00 · answer #2 · answered by Jonathon M 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think we have lost in the sense that the administrations proposed purpose was to 'free' the Iraqi people and establish a democracy in Iraq. Many of us knew that was impossible from the beginning but after 4+ years it is now painfully obvious that is indeed true and the war for a democratic government in Iraq is lost.
2007-04-27 10:58:04 · answer #3 · answered by ndmagicman 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
He is nothing more than a traitor. We won the war and are finishing the job of helping Iraq defend himself.
2007-04-27 10:29:57 · answer #4 · answered by Chainsaw 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋
You are assuming that the enemy we face is one that can be defeated in a millitary sense. We need to win the war of ideas, which we cannot do so long as the Muslim exteremists can paint us as a bunch of imperailist foriegners there to steal oil.
2007-04-27 10:28:26 · answer #5 · answered by truthspeaker10 4 · 1⤊ 2⤋
The war was lost before we invaded. This is exactly what those wackos wanted. Now we are the bullies they claimed us to be.
2007-04-27 10:59:55 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Would it surprise you to know that we were never meant to "win" in Iraq?
2007-04-27 11:24:23 · answer #7 · answered by ? 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Iran won. The day we invaded.....
2007-04-27 11:16:22 · answer #8 · answered by neooxyconservative 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
He said it.
Did the others say it too?
Was it the blind were following the blind too in planet of apes?
2007-04-27 10:44:57 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋