Iraq?! - In plain English, and serious adult answers only!, - Help me to understand why we can't leave Iraq.

Question

This may sound selfish, but if we stay....what's in it for us?
We ARE losing soldiers EVERYday. We ARE losing billions of dollars $$. We are gaining...uh-h-h...hm-m-m....we are gaining....well, nothing?
Don't say oil! We don't need to sacrifice young boys, and girls for that. If you DO want to say oil, it seems then that you agree with this administration. And you also then believe, that this current administration is taking the right approach to ensure our oil status in Iraq . . . kill to get oil! Spend the billions to get oil!
Didn't we originally go there to demolish the Saddam regime? Well it's been done, it's over! Come home!
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Answer 1

OIL

Your assumption as to my answering "oil" is totally wrong, BTW.

Answer 2

There are many reasons people can give that serve specific interests, but the real reason is at this point, we broke it. I do not support this administrations policies at all and at the risk of sounding like a conspiracy theorist, there is no good way for the U.S. to exit.
The fact of the matter is that if the United States left right now, there would be civil war in Iraq for another 50 years, which would probably invariably lead to a move by Iran and Syria, along with a genocide of Kurds in Northern Iraq similar to the genocides currently happening all over Africa.
That being said, what we are doing is 100% NOT the way to go about it. If this administration is really serious about solving the situation, a few things need to happen. It first needs to stop pumping billions of dollars into Halliburton contractors. Second, there needs to be a major push for real reforms in the Iraqi Parliament and start pushing for actual leaders who will do something about it. Finally, there needs to be a reality check that Iraq cannot be the United States and there needs to be a stable government in place that may not be a democracy.
In answer to your original question, the right thing is keeping us there. We wrecked it and we should be the ones to fix our own mess. That doesn't mean thousands have to die in the process. There is a better way.

Answer 3

You know what disturbs me more then anything is that people are sooooo forgetful. WAR is not like a TV dinner. It isnt done in 15 min then we just sit and watch tv. Remember why we are over there in the first place. I dont care how many people say they had NOTHING to do with 9/11, but they had a lot to do with training terrorist. Understand how War works. It is not simply we blow everything up and leave, but it is destroy the people who do the suppression, rebuild basic infrastructure, train the people how to rebuild and the hardest part of the ENTIRE war process is to change thier thought process. They have been told to beleive a certain way and if they didnt they where killed. Remember that if you fought against Hussain at all you where killed or maimed. There was denying that at all! There was no doubt by anyone that he possesed the means and more then likely help weapons of mass destruction. OH, Mustard Gas can be considered WMD. (Found lots of that) Found other WMD's of a biological means. These kinds of weapons do not kill immediatly, but slowly and painfully. If we leave now, we will create a political vaccuum the size of Texas that ANY of the terrorist groups could come and fill very easily. Is that what we want our government to do? This war has cost the US Servicemen 2500 lives in 4 years now. Compare that number to any previous war we have ever been in. In vietnam, we lost atleast 10,000 per year. In WWII, We lost 50,000 some years, and over 100,000 during the D-Day invasion at Normandy. Freedom is NEVER free. Someone must pay for it, and these brave men jumped to the fact we was going to strike back at those who struck us. That is not including the terroist in Afganistan. War is HELL. War is the worst thing men can do, HOWEVER sometimes war is required to maintain peace.

Answer 4

only the beginning, more to come? it was STOPPED. so don't say it as if something happend. anyways to your question, you're an idiot we will lose way more in the long run if we COWARDLY decide to leave iraq. what you think if we leave the planning of terrorism on US soil will stop? if we leave Iraq then they will think they have won. they will think they defeated the most powerful country in the world they will act cocky and call us cowards. that ********* will lead to world war 3. the only bad thing about being there is i don't know why US soldiiers trust some of those iraqi's that are "helping" them. you see a US soldier giving a little iraqi child food as soon as the soldier turns aroundthe child takes out an AK-47 and kills the soldier. if i was sent to the army or navy to fight in iraq i would just take my gun out go to a nearby villiage where there are these future terrorist children and start shooting everybody up.

Answer 5

I believe that we are staying there because our state dept believes if we leave now there will be chaos in the middle east, just as there has been for the last umpteen gajillion years. They think we can make a difference, but I believe history will prove them wrong. Haven't you ever done something and thought while you were doing it, "if only this or that would happen, then this whole thing would come together"? I don't believe the people in charge are jaded or evil. I think they are just naive. There is only one way to occupy a country and that is the way the Russians, Germans, or Romans would have done it. And we don't have the stomach for that.

Answer 6

I understand your feeling completely, you're looking for a reason. There are other reasons, but they're no better than the OIL reason. One is the military-industrial complex having a HUGE influence on our political system. The other is, the hope was that it would be a good political move for GWB & Co., they thought it would be over with quick and they'd leave with better approval ratings. Which brings me to the last real reason which is that they really didn't HAVE a plan for after the invasion, and now I think they've realized what they've done and are (trying to) delay the inevitable (DISASTER) until bush gets out of office so he (thinks he) can't be blamed for it. It SUCKS, the whole situation SUCKS. I'm sorry that it ever happened and that we the people couldn't do more to stop it.

Answer 7

Real politic cannot be described in plain English.
Right or wrong USA went with a mission in Iraq,unless that
mission is accomplished the forces cannot come home before the Presidential Election. The next President will
decide the next step.

Answer 8

There's quite a bit in it for us - now. We never should have gone in, but now that we have we are confronted by a bigger threat than we faced before we ever went in. Iraq is so unstable that if we completely remove our presence two things will happen. Iran will move to take control of Iraq, which we simply can't allow because of the existing problems we face with Iran. And Al Queda will be free to set up new bases inside Iraq, from which to train and plan new attacks on the American people. Of course they are already doing that, in Anbar Province and in Afghanistan, to name only two. But by leaving Iraq completely we would just be contributing to their growth, even more than we are now. Bush has effectively put us in the trick bag with the mismanagement of this war, and the non-existent planning for the aftermath.

Now we have to deal with Al Queda in Iraq as well as Afghanistan. It does no good to point back and state the obvious - that they weren't there before we blew the country wide open and gave them passage inside. We have to look at the situation that has been created and deal with it, like it or not.

That's why I believe the best plan is to put real pressure on the Iraqis to solve their political mess and remove ourselves from policing their civil war - leaving residual troops there to deal with Al Queda, guard the borders, as well as continuing to help train Iraqi troops. At least then we will be fighting the enemy we should have kept fighting full force to begin with.

Answer 9

All of the people who are actually trying to give you a reason are wrong. It doesn't matter if we pull out now or in 5 years. Within 6 months of whatever pull-out date, Iraq will collapse.

So let it happen now while more americans are alive.

And for the people saying "keep it over there". Did you happen to notice that a plot was thwarted (supposedly) for more terrorism outside of Iraq? How are we keeping it "over there?"

Answer 10

We were too eager to free and liberate the people, assuming they would hold unto a democracy and appreciate freedom. History often repeats: in a time of chaos is when the fascists strike. America is there to guide Iraq through this time to become a flourishing democracy, and a beacon of hope in the middle-east.

Or we could be wrong. We won't know until it's too late.

Answer 11

That's what I used to say about Vietnam, but Nixon hung on for five bloody more years, and scared the Dejesus out of me that I would get drafted..
Yeah, declare victory and leave, after all we did that in Vietnam, but will events turn out the same? God only knows. No more dominoes fell after Vietnam, but that was due to the integrity of the Vietnamese who only wanted to be left alone after 4,000 years of fighting, and knew what it was like to be occupied so didn't want to do that to Cambodia or Laos, plus pressure by the UN. Bless them all the whole region is stable. Now will no more politicians win any more elections by fooling us again that leaving it was a mistake?