How long do you think we'll have troops in Iraq?

Question

The complete AP story dated today

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070618/ap_on_go_pr_wh/us_iraq

Bush and Rice's meetings came a day after Gen. David Petraeus, the U.S. commander in Baghdad, warned it could take as long as a decade to stabilize Iraq.

Petraeus said insurgents pushing back on newly aggressive coalition military forces have led to continued violence in Iraq, describing an ebb-and-flow of sectarian murders in Baghdad.

for those of you that point to our troops still in Japan and Germany, I chuckle. Sorry. You know what I mean: FIGHTING in Iraq. We were not fighting in Japan and Germany after that war... just occupying and keeping a strong presence against Russia.

In my question I clearly mean: how long will be send troops into this meat grinder?

Answer 1

20 or 30 years, this war against Muslim extremists will last a LONG time.

Answer 2

Yeah unfortunatley it looks like we are there for the long haul unless our leaders decide that trying to fight terrorism in a politically correct fasion is not working. I don't know what you call some of our leaders in congress who have said the latest tactic of troop increases failed before it was even tried. They scream when we say they are being unpatriotic, and just playing politics at the expense of troop moral. Whatever you call this behavior it certainly is not patriotic. On the other hand I wish Bush would say what our goal is exactly. If it is to end crime and murder then we will be there forever. We can't even stop those things in our own country. I guess we stay until Iraq is able to defend itself. But in order for that to happen they are going to have to stop killing each other. I have no answers only thing I can do is hope our government doesn't devide our country even further by playing politics with this war and continue to pray for our brave men in women who are in harms way.

Answer 3

How long we are in Iraq depends on the president in power. I have been to Iraq and from what I have read there and after I got back things are getting worse every year there. I wish my fellow troops the best but feel that if a stabilised Iraq is the only answer than we have a lot more work to do and that ten years is a good low estimation.

Answer 4

Our troops will maintain a military presence in Iraq until we have sucked every drop of OIL from that nation's sands. We are building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' puppet government installed by the Bush administration. Sadly, from Day One, this unconstitutional, illegal, unjustifiable, immoral 'war' was all about OIL and WAR PROFITEERING - at any cost. And, the cost so far is 675,000 Iraqi citizens and 3,500 U.S. soldiers, all dead because a handful of billionaires want more billions. -RKO- 06/18/07

Answer 5

properly as long as there is struggling with of path, yet this all is going back to the religion. there have been religious wars and struggling with in those third worldwide countries in view that bible time. that is in no way gonna end there'll continuously be conflict and struggling with someplace interior the worldwide. as a private answer to how long troops would be there....till Bush is out of place of work. he had no experience in sending those troops. we in simple terms reason extra chaos with the aid of doing so. pass away them on my own. we've Sadaam, and we blasted Bin encumbered out of the water or so that is been stated. enable them to combat there very own conflict. we continuously think of we can help yet we finally end up killing further and extra. permit's in simple terms wish all of them come back secure!

Answer 6

They may be in Iraq for another year at the minimum, as long as Bush is in power. Unless our next president can work up a credible plan to get our troops out of Iraq in a certain period of time, they could be there for another 5-10 years.

Personally, I think enough is enough is enough!

Answer 7

Well since we never left the area since before the Persian Gulf War, I don't feel we'll ever leave the area now either.

We are still in Germany and Japan and WWII was more than 50 years ago.

Answer 8

Until either the democratic Congress finally has the guts to cut off funding, a president is appointed who is determined to take us out of Iraq (Ron Paul), or a national economic calamity occurs (dollar collapses because of overinflation). America doesn't have enough money to fix Iraq.

Answer 9

We still have troops in Germany and Japan. So in that sense, I'd expect some to remai nthe rest of our lives.

If you mean the combat troops, I'd say another 6 years wouldn't be a surprise.

Answer 10

All of the reasons given for the international illegal act of aggression were false

The corporate government and the corporate media sold the corporate lies....The sheep purchased bumper stickers

Iraq was always planned as an occupation

Answer 11

Well, according to "W" the next fifty year's and going on, the Korea model. Common sense tells me "that dog won't hunt". there is no DMZ. So just until about twenty thousand dead or so and ninety thousand or so disabled and the American people finally (R) or (D) demand we just pull out and leave them killing each other. If Bush could be president even one more term, I think it would get there. Time to leave was summer 2003. We never should have gone again. Should have just tipped our hat, said well folk's bye. No WMD's so we are going home, you guy's sort it out yourselves. We will help you after.