Republicans, Liberal and all others,let's do it together.?

Question

OK Ladies And Gentlemen, This is a practice : Working together for a better America.
Folks let's show we can still do it. OK the question Is
"Yes or no on Iraq's war, why?"
Now folks first mention your party and then give your answer. short and sweet. No sharp comments, and no "Thumbs down"
Every one is welcome. Let's show our unity.
God bless America.
God bless you all.

I assume "Thumbs Down" is work of a kid or two just having fun.
Folks I love Engineers, Go and read a Q & A about mesuring Voltage DROP
Find in my answers. Ain't that civilized?

Don't forget to read my joke.
My ? just B 4 this one. U'll like it.

Thank you all.

My special Thanks to "Roshni" , with her brilliant answer, sharp vision and great analysis.
Also to my Friend Corn Fed, with his power full and precise diagnoses of this ordeal.
I am honored by your participation. And keep educating.

Best Regards.

let me show my appreciation to you all that honored me by your outstanding answers.
Each answer is the best answer.
To promote total democracy , I humbly ask you to please choose , the best answer by your votes.

The needs of many out waves the needs of one or few.

Best Regards.

Answer 1

registered Democrat.

Iraq would have been OK had we gone in on the right pretense. How about human rights? What is wrong with that? It's a good and noble reason to go to war.

I feel our president just out and out lied. When you start out with a lie, it's hard to make sense of anything after that. We went for the wrong reason. That we found Saddam and executed him was a fortunate byproduct of a disastrous plan of attack that had no end in sight.

Oh and thank you for posing this question in such an intelligent and thoughtful manner. :) It's nice to be able to respond in kind without feeling like I have to defend myself because of how I registered to vote.

Answer 2

First of all, thank you for the question and the format.

Now, as the only person so far who has actually BEEN to Iraq (still there, actually) I find it interesting to see people's viewpoints that are all based off of third-party information. Unless you correspond with someone over here, you honestly have no idea what is happening. Heck, most of (if not all of) the REPORTERS over here have no idea what's happening, since they don't leave the safety and security of the HUGE complex at the BIAP (Baghdad International AirPort), which is NOT the same as Baghdad proper.

My background: I spent a year in Ramadi in the military from June '05 to June '06, then went home, got out, and have been back in Iraq as a civilian contractor since October '06. I've been to Kirkuk, Baghdad (the city AND the BIAP), Tikrit, and several other places that you've never heard of. I fly about once a week in C-130s, C-17s, Sherpas, Blackhawks, and Chinooks so I can actually SEE the countryside (in the last 3, anyway) as I fly over.

Were we right to depose Saddam Hussein? Ask the families of the hundreds of thousands of people he is responsible for murdering, torturing, raping, chemically bombing (see: Halabja, chemical bombed for 3 days in 1988), mutilating, and God knows what else.

The situation would have been over a long time ago, if our elected Representatives in Congress and the Senate put the good of the country above Party-lines and political aspirations. The fact that success in Iraq would affect the President's approval ratings being a reason to oppose anything that would help the people over here is deplorable, but that is politics. "Run away!" wasn't an effective strategy in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, but that seems to be the only alternative strategy being offered.

Intelligence reports from the U.S., U.N., and the dozen or so other countries showed chemical weapons in Iraq. If they aren't here now they got out the same way that the weapons from Syria and Iran (and jihadists) are getting in now.

And if you can't tell me how much money we've spent to rebuild the infrastructure, schools, hospitals, and how many people in Iraq are GLAD we rescued them, please don't regurgitate the body count numbers and the old tired lies you've been spouting since this began. Sadly, you won't find those statistics on TV or in the newspapers. "If it doesn't bleed, it doesn't lead."

Sadly, we're in another election cycle, so nothing will be done to improve the situation over here for political reasons. It's too bad children and families have to die so that someone who hates the current administration can get elected or re-elected. That's whose hands are REALLY covered in blood.

Sorry this went for so long, but there are ALOT of facts that the average person doesn't know, and the media certainly won't inform them.

Answer 3

Everyone is a human being first.
God bless everyone.
There is no unity when a crime, a huge crime, a series of crimes were committed and are being committed.
The war in Iraq is not a small neighborhood project where all the neighbors get together to organize and do something.
If unity and cooperation are goods things, in this case, its not just republicans and democrats who will be called to join together to solve the problem. It will be the countries of the middle east, the Europeans and the United nations. It will be the Americans declaring that they are leaving Iraq and will support a settlement of the Iraqi factions under the auspices of the parties mentioned.

Answer 4

The U.S. accomplished the goals we originally stated:
1. Check Iraq to ascertain finally and or sure whether Iraq had WMD.
2. Depose Saddam (and capture or kill him if possible).
3. Give the Iraq's a shot at becoming a democracy.
We accomplished all of these goals.

We already had victory in Iraq. Only way we can achieve "defeat" is by remaining there with totally unrealistic expectations !

The unrealistc expectations are:
1. Force Iraq to become a "democracy".
2. Force Iraq to continue being one nation.
3. Make the Sunni's and Shia get along.
4. Make Iraq into a U.S. ally.

Answer 5

I'm a conservative independent, and I've been opposed to the Iraq war from the beginning.

It is insane to suggest that it is possible to sustain control of a country thousands of miles away, particularly when the people of this country are increasingly against it.

Iraq is an artifically-created country, with different cultures unnaturally thrown together. The only thing holding them in place in the past was a dictator (Hussein).

I also don't believe in foreign intervention unless it is in the best interests of the U.S. I don't see that with the Iraq war situation. There was no pressing U.S. interest in Iraq that justified going to war. And there still isn't.

Answer 6

If you want to work WITH someone you must FIRST BE HONEST with them.

Without TRUST there can be no working WITH.

This administration is NOT HONEST.

I would love to be doing something other than trying to get my Constitutional Rights restored from a corrupt government.

Thank you for your question.
I do care about America, I have always cared about America.
I have relatives that fought in the civil war, WWI, WWII and at least Korea.
I have relatives that have graduated from West Point and were career soldiers. Some of them died defending the Constitution while others that have sworn to defend it are stealing our rights granted by it. I have to go to the cemetery every so often to stop the soldiers who died from spinning in their graves.

Answer 7

I am a non-american. !! May i comment here??

No !! its doing good to none.neither to Iraq nor to US....and both sides are suffering....Even if US do anything with sincerity there.....then too its if no use...they will always consider US as an invader...Well the opinion of so called governament and the pubic is different but its the public that matters not the governament !!And Public don't want US there...so you can't expect their co-operation from the public .its natural..just imagine an invader in your country , would you ever co-operate with them??.....and you can't keep constant eye on them by keeping your army there...becuase it would be an ongoing process....its just a dream to think that Iraqis would ever embrace US and their interfernce there.......so why to waste your money and lives there?? Sorry but the lives of Iraqi and Your troops are precious then power and money which is a basic intension of US there..! and if this a war on terror then too US is fighting it in wrong place! i think the basis of all this issue is wrong and it should end up now !!becuase you can't expect anything good comming out of it for any side !

God Bless your country and you all !

Answer 8

I am a conservative, Republican and someone who thinks those people we put in Iraq with "boots on" should have a lot of input on the solution. My Uncle is in the Special Operations Command for the U.S. Army and he thinks it would be a bad idea to pull out and leave a power vacuum. I defer to his expertise as I am admittedly limited in first hand knowledge.
I know we are all sick and tired of American, British and other countries soldiers being killed. The one thing I have found among my friends who return from the war is,
A: why does the media not report our successes?
B: who is going to do it if we pull out too early?
C: why don't people here support us over there?
I have no grand vision or strategy, I leave that to people smarter than I. I do fear creating another extremist state in the middle east. Iran is doing very well on their own without another minion to do their bidding.

Answer 9

I spent a lot of time carefully crafting a thoughtful answer to your very good question....

I got sort of bogged down, so did an "Edit/Cut" and took that break to read the already posted answers.

IMO, there should not be a single answer following that of "Bugged in MN" if everyone is taking the time to read first...
He said it all, and said it so well that nothing more need be said.

On behalf of all Thinking Americans, I salute you, Bugged in MN.

Edit:
OK, OK....so I was wrong.....I'm glad for the people who posted after Bugged in MN...
I had just spent a lot of time trying to say what he said so elegantly, but I am grateful to the other posters as well...

Answer 10

In my opinion the war was over long ago.

The rebuilding is taking place and restructuring is in effect being obstructed by radical people who have no value for life either for themselves or others.

The war, is it still worthy? Not really.

Is our presence there enabling their citizens and elected officials to learn better ways to handle their new government? Yes.

Is pulling out the ONLY answer? Absolutely not.

Is pulling out on a time-line a proactive means for a valid solution? Absolutely not.

We have troops all over the world assisting other countries and no one says a word about that. Why? Because the volume of people being killed isn't directly proportionate to those who in their eyes, need to kill Americans at all cost. (?)

The way people (terrorists) are thinking is causing not only our troops harm, but anyone else in and around those areas.

Will pulling our troops out stop the killing in Iraq? Hell no.

When your child defies what you instruct them to do, do you walk away and let someone else handle the situation? Of course not. YOU handle it because they're your kids.

In this case, we (by and large) made the Iraqi people our kids and now we're attempting to have them adopt some of our ways. Until this occurs, bloodshed will continue.

Long after we leave and Iraq takes the reigns themselves, there still will be bloodshed. But a whole lot less if we eliminate the bases of power feeding them harmful ways to kill innocent people.

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edit:
Goodness... The person posing the question asked it very simply... And several liberals can't give a valid answer and only gripe about what they've been programmed to say...

Which clearly proves that asking simple questions only leads to more inept ways for people to answer them. lol