Do you approve of the war in Iraq?

Question

Yes or No?

Why?

What are we doing there?

Were they ever an imminent threat to us?

Any weapons of mass destruction found??? (i dunno thats why im asking genuninely)

Have things improved since we went there?

Has the standard of living changed in Iraq for citizens there? Are they happier to be relieved of Saddam?

Are we safer since our military's presece there? Or are we still vulnerable to terrorist attacks? Or we are in the same security level as 2003?

As the terrorist activity gone down since our presence there? Are the threat levels to us much lower now?

Answer 1

I think the main point is that we don't KNOW whether we should approve of the war or not, because truthful information about why we're there, what our goals are, what the threats are, how things are going, etc., is not being passed down to us. Instead we're getting political "spin." Is the "spin" designed to make sure we continue to support a war that we desperately need? Or is it meant to distract us from the fact that we're needlessly spending billions and losing troops? The point is.......we don't know. Maybe there IS some huge threat to us that is being kept secret for a reason. Maybe history will see Bush as a visionary who selflessly took abuse heaped on him by an ignorant and impatient populace.

OR........Maybe we're being led by a group of incompetents who just want to get out of their terms before we find out that they've massively, beyond belief, screwed everything up.

Until we know which it is, I don't see how we can really be "for" or "against" the war. What I am against is the systematic withholding of the facts and reasoning behind what we're doing over there that would make it easy to know how I should feel.

Answer 2

Yes or No?

No, I do not approve of why the War was started.

Why?

I feel that Bush acted to quickly and did not verify the information he had recieved

What are we doing there?

Well, since we have been here in 2003, the missions are always changing, out mission in 2003 is not the same as today.

Were they ever an imminent threat to us?

I don't think anyone will really ever know the answer to that question.

Any weapons of mass destruction found??? (i dunno thats why im asking genuninely)

There has not been any WMD's that i'm aware of, but there has been mass cache's of RPG's and weapons found.

Have things improved since we went there?

I was here during 2003 as a soldier, now I have been here for the last 3 years as a civilian. I have seen a slow improvement since 2003. my opinion is that it is not impoving as fast as the government would like.

Has the standard of living changed in Iraq for citizens there? Are they happier to be relieved of Saddam?

The standard of living has went up slightly, but as i said before not as fast as most would like.
some Iraqi's are happy that Saddam was outsted, mainly the shites, the ones that are not happy, and are doing most of the insurggency is the Sunni's because Saddam was a Sunni himself.

Are we safer since our military's presece there? Or are we still vulnerable to terrorist attacks? Or we are in the same security level as 2003?

Are we safer in the US since we invaded Iraq, i don't think we will ever know that either.
We are always vonurable to a terrorist attack, no matter how secure we think we are.

As the terrorist activity gone down since our presence there? Are the threat levels to us much lower now?

Things here will intencify before they get better

Answer 3

I do not approve of the War in Iraq because it was based on a lie. There were never weapons of mass destruction and they were never an immenent threat to the US. Al Quida wasn't in Iraq until we went there and they followed us. Chalk one up for Bin Laden; he outsmarted Bush there. Now the Sunnis and Shites are fighting like hell between themselves and it has developed into a sectarian civil war of which we have no business being in the middle of, so if they are glad to be rid of Saddaam they won't realize it. We are not necessarily safer because our military is there. We have managed to deplete our military troops and resources to a dangerous level by invading Iraq and if terrorists did invade us on our own soil, we could be up that creek without a paddle. Actually there isn't much on the upside concerning the Iraq War other than it made Dick Cheney richer from Halliburton contracts.

Answer 4

No.

Good question. more than 1/2 of us in the US ask that same q every day. (Don't believe me? Check GWB jr's opinion poll ratings - he ignores them.. lol. Must be nice to be 'right' when almost EVERYONE ELSE is 'wrong' and doesn't approve of your actions in such a grave matter as this)

Yes, but not to the extent we were led to believe.

Poisonous shells, but nothing else I've heard of.

Maybe for some Iraqis, especially Kurds, but in all, no.

Yup, most are much poorer (duh). Some are relieved, some are pissed.

NO. We go further and further into REAL long term debt with potential enemies. Yup, very vulnerable.

Unknown.. hard to say. NO. If "daddy bush" had taken care of the problem in the 1990's we wouldn't be spinning our wheels there now. Do you realize we were within 50 miles of Baghdad the FIRST time around and they LEFT without even a peace treaty?!

Answer 5

I served in Iraq from '03 - '04. I'm glad I'm home. I got outta' the military 'cause I didn't want to go back. George Bush isn't a good strategist, nor are the people that were working for him prior to Operation Iraqi Freedom. The best advice he could a' took was the advice to focus solely on Afghanistan, and stay the hell outta' Iraq!

Answer 6

I approve , we ought to stay till the activity is complete... i'm proudly balloting for McCain and that i'm happy you appreciate taking McCain's words out of context ... and by the way ... Obama now has mentioned he won't pull them out the two ... so intense-high quality attempt.

Answer 7

not at all. little bush got pissed that his daddy bush got shaken under the trees in the early 90's. and then there's oil. not to mention the fool went into iraq and messed with the tribes. he made this war a spiritual one, and now all of us are compared to him in his mistakes. i voted for kerry, but i doubt he'd have been any better.

Answer 8

It was all a big mistake that our Dubya made. There WERE no "nucular" weapons. Unfortunately, people will never admit that the 3,000+ lives that were lost were for a suicide mission. e

Answer 9

not at all. little bush got pissed that his daddy bush got shaken under the trees in the early 90's. and then there's oil. not to mention the fool went into Iraq and messed with the tribes. he made this war a spiritual one, and now all of us are compared to him in his mistakes. i voted for Kerry, but i doubt he'd have been any better.

Answer 10

Iraq war has no goals or end-games.