What was the biggest mistake made in Iraq?

Question

Hanging Sadam before they learned from him on how to govern this country?
How many car bombs a day did explode during his time?
How many suicide bombers did blow themself up at his time?
How many people would be dumped, having their throught cut?
Yes, I know that he was a brutal dictator, but maybe he did know something we should have asked him before the hanging.
We also could ask one of the democratic Staates around this area on how they run their Country, like.....(I can't remember their name)
Is it possible that our logic will not work down there?

Answer 1

The biggest mistake was Rumsfeld trying to do it on the cheap from the beginning. We did not have enough troops at the start to insure stability after the fall of Saddam Hussein. We should have had two to three times the number we had at the time.
Second, Bremer never should have disbanded the Iraqi military and put hundreds of thousands of Iraqi men out of work and should not have fired every Bathist from public service that essentially removed all of the civic experience from the government functions.
Third, we should not have assumed that the average American could have understood that this was not going to be an easy thing to accomplish and that it was going to be a dangerous and lengthy undertaking.

Answer 2

Just like here "PROTECTING THE BORDERS". If we had closed the borders and then taken out the bad men left inside Iraq would be a safe place by now. Iran and Syria have exported hundreds if not thousands of terrorist into Iraq to keep it from getting on it's feet. They see that if Iraq becomes a place of freedom (not the western type with abortions and pornagraphy but with freedom of choice) the region's people might see that and want change in their own country.

Answer 3

I think the biggest mistake we have made with Iraq has not been done by the political parties or our soldiers it has been done by the American people. The biggest mistake made has been that America thought we would go over there take control and be out of there as fast as we went in. The people of America have given up on our troops and commander in chief to easily. We need to remember to stay true to our red white and blue.

Answer 4

Disbanding the Iraqui army, which was the country's biggest employer. Starving families, and fathers with reduced self-esteem began selling out to Muslim fanatics. Children under the age of 10 accept money to lob grenades in Humvees to help support their families. Unempleyed adults accept large amounts of money to blow themselevs up as suicide bombers, in the hopes that at least their families will not want.

Answer 5

Having Democrats in Congress.

Answer 6

Trusting the Liberals and wiener-dog Republicans to not disavow their vote of support.

When they do that, by saying "We were LIED to!" they are trying to evade responsibility. Congress participated in getting us where we are today, wherever that is, and now they want to push the whole thing onto Bush. No one who does that is worth a vote.

I could respect their position more if they'd say "It looked like a good idea at the time, but now let's work on getting out.", but they do NOT do that. They try to force Bush to do it with timelines and threats and will not take responsibility for their own roles in where we are today.

The biggest mistake was trusting Liberals.

Answer 7

There have been many!

1) Disbanding the Iraqi Army (who are mostly republican; as in "pro-republic")and not accounting for weapons and ammuniton.

2) Significantly underestimating the influence of neighboring countries (Iran and Syria's) interest in kicking some USA ***. These countries have thousands of jihadist "insurgents". They will kill Americans for a song and "reward" in the afterlife.

Answer 8

Our #1 mistake was not banning the Democratic Party from this nation.

Answer 9

The biggest mistake of going to iraq....umm going to iraq obviously. Frankly I think we should've just nuked them off the face of the earth if we felt they had bio weapons. But then again I'm completely sadistic. (I'm agreeing with you and being insane at the same time fyi)

Answer 10

Our logic will never work there.
Fact of the matter is they're different.
Arabs will always run their countries, cities, lives, etc differently from the way we run ours.
That's not racism, it's true.
If you look at the history books, you'll see that the Arabs have constantly been at war with one another, and if George Bush and Tony Blair think they can change that, then so be it. But it will never work.
The biggest mistake made was to invade Iraq imho.