Who really thinks we should pull out of Iraq?

Question

After all, it is what the terrorist want, and we will end up with another country that is bent on Israel and American destruction.
Also, it appears that our democratically controlled congress is helping the terrorist and hurting our troops by not giving them the funds that they need in order to stop the terrorist and help the new Iraqi government succeed. This shows how the democrats are anti-democracy in their ideals I believe. How can any body support them?

No, I do not want everybody to vote for Repubs, also we should not have a two party system. Read the constitution and you will see that both of these parties are breaking our highest laws.

Answer 1

You ask the question so you could give us your thinking on the subject, however it does gives me a chance for rebuttal.
We must have wars to support the military industrial complex.
The last I heard the figure it was 30% of the budget was used for this purpose.
Can you imagine what would happen to the U. S, economy if we stopped funding the war machine. By the way Eisenhower warned us in 1962, that once we began that process we would not be able to control it. Just think how many jobs would be lost, how many wealthy people would have to take a lost, how the stock market would be impacted.
This is exactly what caused the fall of the USSR.
So the real question is, if we get ou Iraq, where will we have our next war? How many lives lost can be justified? These are the questions our leaders are dealing with, or not dealing with. The question that must be answered is how do we redirect the MID complex into a more possitive force for the benifit of mankind. Space exploration is my thinking. However I expect this is a question your generation will have to solve. All my best wishies to your generation.

Answer 2

well first of all the Congress has offered more money for the war than the President asked for. the reason he vetoes their bills is because they are calling for a timetable of withdrawel.

i believe you are correct in saying we can't pull out of Iraq now. we are too deep in there to just leave, the Iraqi parliament still needs help in gaining some control and the infrastructure of the place needs to be rebuilt.

what the terrorists want is the US to stop supporting Israel and for the world to recognize Palestine. some of the Iraqis want us to leave but that would open the doors for even more violence.

the US will be in Iraq and the Middle East forever.

Answer 3

I say bring the troops home now, Iraq has police, military, Haliburton, Blackwater etc. These reliable sources should be more than capable of handling of the clean up, Mission Accomplished happened over 4 years ago. Time to cut all the funding for the above groups from the US Taxpayers except for the real troops in the military.

Answer 4

What the terrorist want? Um... as long as we stay there they can attack us every day of the week. We have our troops just sitting there.

In my opinion we go all in or not at all. Right now our troop levels are too low to do much good. It's killing our troops.

And no, you're a fool for thinking the democrat party is helping terrorists. They DEFINITELY don't sit around thinking what could help terrorists and hurt America. That's a horribly biased idea and you just made yourself look very stupid.

And as for anti-democracy, here you are telling me that no one should vote for the 2nd party in the 2 party system. That we should all vote republican and think the same way you do. THATS ANTI-DEMOCRACY. How hypocrital of you! Telling me that democrats love the terrorists and other generalizations and demonizations... all while trying to get me to agree with you that democrats are ruining America.

I know Hitler is often over-analyzed and used in situations like this, but think about it. Hitler claimed Jews were destroying Germany.

Look, I'm not saying agree with democrats. Think what you want. But don't claim that you're pro-democracy then talk about why the other political party is evil. They just have other opinions, deal with it!

Answer 5

It is the job of the Congress to oversee the executive branch.

Anyone with half a brain can see that this branch needs the overseeing.

Did you whine when the GOP congress did the same?

the GOP congress under Clinton voted to cut off funding for the troops fighting in Kosovo in order to end the war? Yet when they did it, it was not anti-American? But somehow as the Dems are getting ready to do the very same thing if Bush vetos the current bill, it IS anti-American? How very hypocritical of you mindless bushbots. It looks like the only ones that are anti-American are those of you that support putting our troops through the meat grinder in Iraq though you supported cutting the funds off to end that last war.

are the people that have to do the fighting and are seeing the kids die for this absurdity wrong too?

CONCORD, N.H. - Three retired generals challenged a dozen members of Congress in a new ad campaign Wednesday, saying the politicians can't expect to win re-election if they support President Bush's policies in Iraq.
"I am outraged, as are the majority of Americans. I'm a lifelong Republican, but it's past time for change," retired Maj. Gen. John Batiste told reporters.
"Our strategy in Iraq today is more of the same, a slow grind to nowhere which totally ignores the reality of Iraq and the lessons of history," Batiste said. "Our president ignores sound military advice and surrounds himself with like-minded and compliant subordinates."

was george Bush Sr a traitor too?

George H.W. Bush had this to say in a 1998 Time article, when asked why US/UN forces didn't go after Saddam Hussein after Iraqi forces were pushed out of Kuwait in the Gulf War.

"We would have been forced to occupy Baghdad and, in effect, rule Iraq. The coalition would instantly have collapsed, the Arabs deserting it in anger and other allies pulling out as well. Under those circumstances, furthermore, we had been self-consciously trying to set a pattern for handling aggression in the post-cold war world. Going in and occupying Iraq, thus unilaterally exceeding the U.N.'s mandate, would have destroyed the precedent of international response to aggression we hoped to establish. Had we gone the invasion route, the U.S. could conceivably still be an occupying power in a bitterly hostile land. It would have been a dramatically different--and perhaps barren--outcome."

Seems like besides running the CIA and being a one term president, Bush Sr. was a a fortune teller, for his own kid.

Answer 6

I support a pull-out of Iraq, eventually.

The fact of the matter is we cannot stay there indefinitely, this war is bankrupting our nation. We need to set benchmarks, or timetables, to show the Iraqis that we mean business. An open-ended commitment is not going to solve the problems Iraq faces, they need to know that their security will ultimately be their responsibility, not ours.

Answer 7

I really do wish that people such as you and the other loyal Bushies would get your facts straight. There is more than enough, more than what Bush asked for in the Iraqi funding. It is your loyal Bushie who is holding up the funds via veto, because he does not want any riders to the bill other than carte blanc funding for his war in Iraq.

Answer 8

Well tell me this why are we there in the first place? Simple but a fact we are killing people for no reason at all and what good will it do? As Bush puts it we are freeing these people and giving them rights-rights for what to roam the world-they already do and they are committing genocide where they are! And tell me why is it that we are killing and being killed and Halliburton and the families that are profiting from this mess have no concern to stop the madness!

Answer 9

The libs want us out WHILE BUSH IS IN OFFICE. That way they can blame the results on him.

Wait until another liberal Dem is in the white house, and they will stop talking pull out.

KrazyKyngeKorny
(Krazy, not stupid)

Answer 10

I don't think we should pull out entirely. At this point we need to be presence in terms of nation building and humanitarian relief. However, I do not believe it should be a war effort.