Why are we leaving Iraq?

Question

We didn't draft the soldiers that are fighting. They were patriotic and volunteered to fight to defend Americans. Are we going to defeat Al-Qeuda or simply rely on flight security to defend America?

Please don't reply saying troops are being killed or it's giving Americaa bad name, our any else of your liberal mumblings that are media made.

Answer 1

We are not leaving Iraq. We can't. Even the moderate Democrats don't really want that. But, much has been said for public consumption, the latest being troop withdrawals by spring. Instead, the surge is working. And we are winning. But, the Democrats will, of course, use the war as an issue to bang the Republicans in the head. Secretly, they want us to win, but not until 2009, if you get my drift.

Answer 2

November 2008

Answer 3

"please don't say" ...

Are you saying these things aren't true, or do you just try
to win arguments by excluding other people's points?

The major points are simple:
1: Our own military has said that our current deployment
will not fix things. Indeed our own intelligence has said
that our presence there is making more terrorists.

2: If you don't care about the 3000+ Americans who have died,
how about the 600000 Iraqis? No? Well, how about the fact
that every day we are there, we are adding fuel to the Iranian
terrorists?

I know ... you'd much rather shut your ears and watch Fox.

If we were to leave right now, there would be a massacre.
However, if we keep our current troop levels, nothing will get
any better, and when we eventually run out of volunteers (we're
basically there now), we'll end up pulling out anyways.

And then there will be a massacre.

There is no military solution, at least with this troop level. Our
only help is a political solution initiated primarily by Iraqis,
NOT by Americans.

Answer 4

Who said we are leaving Iraq even though it was a historic mistake to invade in the first place we are kind of stuck with the mess. As for fighting Al-Queda their were none there before we invaded the country. Bush in his infinite stupidity provided the terrorists with a huge training ground and a great recruitment tool. As for your other statement our troops are getting killed and the present administration has dragged America's name through the mud. That isn't liberal mumbling that is a fact.

BobM your a soldier in what army? As a veteran I know anyone saying such a thing has more than likely never served a day in his life.

Elias you say the surge is working? 70% of Bagdhad is under control of the insurgents, the supposedly safe Green Zone gets attacked daily, the Iraqi government is in hiding. I am not sure what your definition of working is, but to me that is utter failure.

Answer 5

I didn't know we were leaving! Perhaps I'm falling behind on the news. Oh I do hope we're done there. We need to move on to the next chapter of our lives. Yes, our guys have been very patriotic and proud to be Americans, as I am proud to be the wife of a military man, but many, like my husband have been back to the war zone again and again to fight this war. It's time we let the Iraqis take over. We've helped plenty and now it's time we move on to the next chapter.

Answer 6

The saddest thing to me is that, yes, our youth are going over there and fighting and dying but it isn't for our country. It is for George Bush and the oil industry. Its a big grift and lives are being lost for Bush to save face.

Its disgusting. He is using our volunteers disingenuously and is disgracing himself.

We won't leave now because the Dems want us there as badly as anyone. They can make political hay from the lives of our soldiers by beating Bush up and any Repub candidate who is pro war.

Both parties are guilty of prolonging the war for political purposes. Its that simple.

Only Congress has the power to declare war, according to the Constitution. But this war was declared (illegally) by Bush, and our congress let him do it. But they didn't have the political courage to declare war or to fight Bush off. I wonder why?

Answer 7

clue for you. USA is building an embassy in Iraq that is more vast than Vatican City and it's there to make sure that Big Oil gets their 80% of Iraq's oil revenues. "we" ain't EVER leaving Iraq ... not as long as there's black gold under the sand there.
sheesh! what do you think the war on Iraq is all about?
bringing the Iraqi People "liberation and democracy"? don't be silly.

Answer 8

I think we're leaving because the Bush administration originally said the war would last 6 weeks, cost $1.7 Billion (tops), we would be greeted as liberators, we would establish a democratic gov't and then leave. Of course, that was 5 years ago, not 6 weeks.

Answer 9

The original reason for going to Iraq was the weapons of mass destruction. Even now we are doing nothing but evading terrotority that we have nothing to do on. The terrorist are obiously not there, and there is no god dem bombs. And the troops are being killed and im sure you would want soldiers to leave iraq if your brother or sister or mother died in that war.

Answer 10

We are leaving because Americans are squeamish and have tired of it and because it's politically (votes) expedient.

The U.S., now, can only fight a war if we can wrap it up in a year or two. Otherwise, politics demands we stop in the middle of it. Wars are almost always won or lost at home, not on the battlefield.