Who is a terrorist? Can anyone eliminate terrorism especially by killing children?

Question

Are people not heavily brainwashed to think killing Iraqs equals killing terrorists? How many Iraqis were involved in 9/11? What is the difference between Bin Ladin killing innocent Americans and Americans killing innocent Iraqis?
Is this not a typical ghost chasing mission? Why is America struggling to win a war? Is this because there in no identified enemies but ghosts? Has anyone consider the future effect of these killing on the affected and the Americans?

Answer 1

War IS hell. Deal with it, boy.

Answer 2

No, the terrorists were not losing. The American people were losing, because of all the corruption and scandals and violations of federal law that the government was doing. Bush did not have the terrorists on the run. The pentagon never said that, and the violance and the death tolls in Iraq and Afghanistan have been steadily increasing. As have terrorist actions overseas. The situation has only been getting worse, because what we were doing obviously wasn't working. You may not like the idea of trying something different. But where the death toll among Iraq citiziens is reaching 20,000 to 30,000 per MONTH, and the number of attacks is increasing every week, you have at least admit it's worth trying a different tactic. Even the pentagon admits that.

Answer 3

Terrorists are people who fight against us. Freedom Fighters are people who fight for us.

Killing is killing. Flying a plane into a building is the same as dropping a bomb or sending in a cruise missle. "Surgical Strikes" are propaganda - how many civilians have been reported dead after our "precision" munitions have been dropped - none. We just re-label them insurgents to maintain our support.

I heard on the news today that the war in Iraq has already cost nearly 850 BILLION dollars - with no end in sight. What could we have used that money for in the U.S.? Better schools. Improved healthcare. Clean energy research.

The people making the decisions have their own agenda - I believe they're called War Profiteers to some.

Answer 4

You need to pay better attention. It is the enemy conducting the massacres in Iraq.

And it is sad that you seem to prefer terrorists over a government elected by the Iraqi people.

Answer 5

There are thousands of terrorists in Iraq.

We are struggling to help a country that was being terrorized and annihilated because of a crazy dictator.

Answer 6

As ive previously stated, they should get out of iraq and kill the stupid civilians in america who don't know the REAL REASON why our military is FIGHTING THE WAR.
oohrah!!!

Answer 7

The same ignorant questions.

We are killing terrorists (Al Quaida) not Iraqis. The Iraq people are killing terrorists. The Shite and Suni are killing each other.

We are losing this war because people such as yourself are atempting to make our men and women over there look bad and undermining their ability to fight a war. You are either with us or against us.

Answer 8

How many Germans were involved in Pearl Harbor?

Answer 9

People like you should be the first ones in Iraq.

I'd like to see you being shot and and getting fragged by IED's made in Iran then say this.

Answer 10

I am with you.

According to the latest poll of the Army times, over 1/2 of the military does not believe we should have gone into Iraq, and almost the same number have no faith in Bush!

"By Greg Sargent | bio
Curious about what members of the military actually think about President Bush, the Iraq war, and the question of whether there should be a "surge" in troops?

Then check this out: The latest annual Military Times poll of members of the military has just come out, and guess what it finds? For the first time, more respondents disapprove of Bush's handling of the Iraq war than approve of it. It
also finds that a minority -- all of 38% -- think there should be more troops in Iraq than are already there. And only half think success in Iraq is likely -- down from 83 percent two years ago.

The Military Times poll finds that only 35 percent of respondents approve of Bush's handling of the war -- down from 63 percent two years ago -- while 42%
disapprove of it. From the Army Times' article today on the poll:

The American military -- once a staunch supporter of President Bush and the Iraq war -- has grown increasingly pessimistic about chances for victory, according to the 2006 Military Times Poll.

For the first time, more troops disapprove of the president's handling of the war than approve of it. Barely one-third of service members approve of the way the president is handling the war.

When the military was feeling most optimistic about the war -- in 2004 -- 83 percent of poll respondents thought success in Iraq was likely. This year, that number has shrunk to 50 percent.

Only 35 percent of the military members polled this year said they approve of the way President Bush is handling the war, while 42 percent said they disapproved. The president's approval rating among the military is only
slightly higher than for the population as a whole. In 2004, when his popularity peaked, 63 percent of the military approved of Bush's handling of the war. While approval of the president's war leadership has slumped, his overall approval remains high among the military.

Just as telling, in this year's poll only 41 percent of the military said the U.S. should have gone to war in Iraq in the first place, down from 65 percent in 2003.

There's more. As you may have heard, Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently held a photo-op sit-down with some of the troops in Iraq. By sheer coincidence, all of the assembled troops said they support an increase in troops to Iraq.
That's strikingly at odds with what this poll found, though. The poll asks the following question:

We currently have 145,000 troops in Iraq and Kuwait. How many troops do you think we should have there?
Here are the answers:
Zero: 13%
0-50,000: 7%
50,000-144,000: 6%
145,000: 13%
146,000-200,000: 22%
200,000+: 16%
No opinion/Don't know: 23%
These are worth a quick look. While it doesn't show broad support for a withdrawal, it strikingly shows that 13 percent favor a complete pull out. More tellingly, only 38% think there should be more troops there than there are now. In other words, only 38% favor a "surge."

By contrast, a total of 39 percent think there should be the same number or less than there are now.
This poll isn't a perfect gauge of how the troops in Iraq feel, but it's pretty good: A full 50 percent of respondents have done at least one tour in Iraq. Even better, the poll questioned 6,000 randomly selected active-duty members.
It'll be interesting to see what the wingnuts -- not to mention the commentators at the big news orgs -- have to say about this one."