Who thinks the reason George Bush doesn't pull the troops out of Iraq..?

Question

is because he's afraid the Iraqs will come over here after the White House.

Answer 1

Cody,

I recently returned from Iraq, and I have been asking myself the first half of your question for my entire army career. Many people answering your question, such as "marconprograms," seem to forget that prior to US starting the war, no citizen of Iraq had perpetrated a terrorist act against the United States, ever. The terrorists involved in 9/11 were primarily from the United Arab Emirates, with a few hailing from Saudi Arabia. I don't have to tell you that we have yet to drop bomb one on those countries, but we felt it necessary to respond to Sept. 11th by killing 30,000 innocent Iraqi civilians (by Bush's own admission) with our bombing campaigns. This may help to put the sentiments of the Iraqi "terrorists" into perspective, if you can concentrate over all the flags flapping and the national anthem blasting in your ears.

Oddly enough, this is not the first time that the U.S. has been responsible for a staggering number of Iraqi deaths. Let's review back to 1991, when Bush Sr. promised Kurdish militants the support of US air and ground military assets if they would lead a coup against Hussein's regime. The turnout: we waited for the firefights to start, and sent nothing. Thousands of Kurdish rebels were slaughtered, and put into mass graves that are still being emptied to this day. Most estimates place the body count between 100,000 and 130,000 killed. Roughly 1 in 7 Iraqis lost a parent, child, or sibling in the massacre. It is not surprising, then, that the Iraqi citizens view our presence in their country as a hostile occupation. In a poll conducted last year by Stars and Stripes, 81% of the Iraqi public favors immediate, complete withdrawal of US troops, and 51% actually support attacks against US troops stationed in Iraq.

Now, I am not criticizing the *intent* of the United States. I strongly believe that the current administration really does want what is best for the Iraqi people. The problem is that, in our post-9/11 fervor, we went in when nobody asked for our help, paid no attention to the requests of those to whom we were attempting to give help, and made no plan consistent with anyone's long-term goals before charging blindly ahead. ALL of this is forgivable, IF our leaders could just lay down their partisan politics and admit their mutual faults. We owe the people of Iraq, and the world, a huge apology. Once they have it, perhaps we can truly start to work with the people of Iraq to rebuild their country.

The citizens of the United States need to wake up, and admit to themselves that the measure of being a good patriot is not absently nodding their heads as the government does whatever it pleases, preferably without question. It is through questioning, discussion, and debate that change and forward progress are made, and it is those same processes that prevent us from making the kinds of missteps that this administration has taken.

Answer 2

there would be a civil conflict and iraq would give up to exist. the kurds would create an autonomous state in the north coming up all forms of issues for turkey. the shiites in the south would combat the sunnis and iran would probably step in and take what's left, minus tikrit,baghdad and the sunni triangle that have not got any oil besides extremely you kicked out the only guy who had controlled to hold iraq mutually for 30 years, and now there's a skill vacuum because of the fact human beings do no longer probably have the balls to do the grimy artwork of organising this new government and rooting out all the autonomous factors... so u . s . a . is attempting to coach an iraqi military to do it yet even that's no longer working because they are all iraqis and finally dependable to themselves and iraq previously the country

Answer 3

He doesn't do it because he is a gutless swine. He is afraid of being called weak and a loser. That's why he invaded in the first place. You see, the Republicans were mad as hell at his dad for losing the white house. They think the reason the first bush lost the election is that he looked weak when he stopped short of toppling Saddam Hussein in the first Gulf War. Bush the 2nd has dragged the whole country and much of the rest of the world into this quagmire for personal psychological reasons deriving from his relationship with his father and his need to prove that he is not as weak as his father.

Answer 4

I think coragryph is correct. He's not that stupid. President Bush has his US public reasons and his world stage reasons. He is not winning any points on the US public reasons, as you can see here most people think they're lame.
I do not want to know his "world stage" reasons because I simply wouldn’t want that kind of info leaked to the wrong people. I have speculated however...
Intellectually, it makes sense that he would not want to leave due to the threat of Iran. Without setting of a sense of panic or letting on a sense of threat by Iran, because the region is unstable, Iraq provides us a military station should anything break out.
Iraq is the US security blanket so-to-speak. If war, conflict, or 'talks' are needed, Iraq is perfect positioning for the US to geographically bargain from.

Answer 5

Close - he does not want the extremist Islamists to come to the United States AGAIN and blow things up again! Seems eminently sensible to me, and to my oldest son, who has spent over half of the last 6 years in Afghanistan or Iraq, because he doesn't want to buy Gas Masks for his kids! And, of course, without our help, the democratic government of Iraq, with the potential to be our friends in the long run, may fall and Iraq again become an Al-Kaida training ground, maybe even worse than before.

Answer 6

I believe the man sincerely thought he was making the best decisions for our country. (and I hate Bush)

Now the GOP talks of the instability of Iraq and how we cannot leave, but the GOP created this war in the first place.

At some point one of two things needs to happen:

1.) We send in enough soldiers to achieve success.

or

2.) We cut our losses and live in constant threat of future attacks.

This half-assing it is not fair to our boys and girls. Politics, just like in Vietnam, have gotten in the way of the objective at hand.

It's too late to second guess starting a war. I see it as utterly wrong, but leaving now will only solidify a foothold in which to launch attacks at any country they please.

It's a catch 22 any way you look at it.

Answer 7

He is in so deep, and must feel a tad "foolish", therefore in desperation he will keep going with his ludicrous mind thinking somehow "he" will win this war before he leaves office!
He has made a totally a** out of himself, and should shine of beet red in the face!!

Answer 8

I think the reason is that he is helping all his friends make millions of dollars making war machines before he leaves office

Answer 9

Some are already here awaiting orders, this can't be his thoughts, Oh I forget we"re talking about GWB.

Answer 10

64% of americans think they are smarter than george w bush
the other 36% are wrong