What is the hardest part of this Iraq war?

Question

How do you have a personal attachment to this war, are affected by it, and how have you handled this with family, friends, etc.,?

Been to Iraq. Most of my friends have. Guess what, you can be on Yahoo Answers anywhere in the world. My husband is there now. All my best friends have family there or have been there and I know people who have died in the war.

Answer 1

Hardest part of This war is no winning the war but to maintain Peace around the country End of Saddam has created a huge hole in political land stability, in Iraq. No second leader has been nourished during his period, peoples to be taught about democracy, Obeying laws, banning gun culture, freedom for women's, bulging a new Iraq with efficient road, rail, power,Hospitals, education, food, meaningful military, local governing bodies which cares innocent Iraq civilians who under stress for few decades which will take many more years for this oil rich country until then it will be hardest part for whole world which has been effected by raise in oil price and it has hits all worlds economy.

Answer 2

I think the hardest part of this war is people who support the troops even though these individuals made the choice to go to war. I am not sure why we should sympathize with somebody who personally chose this route. If this is the case, then we should sympathize with doctors, lawyers, college professors, school teachers, waiters and countless other people that willingly and knowingly chose a route.

Further, if you really support the troops, you would have them not go to an ideological war in the first place. The American people (most of them) supported this war since 2003. Nobody was concerned about lives being lost then. Maybe this will serve as a lesson for people who are thinking of joining the military in the future. Nationalism and patriotism is extremely dangerous regardless of nationality or religion.

Anybody thinking of the $10 billion/month this war is costing the American taxpayers? I guess not.

P.S. John T - I like reading your comments. You are honest and are willing to see other points of view. I appreciate that.

Answer 3

The hardest part of this war is the exit. As America we have a choice, withstand a possible few more thousand casualties or a certain couple million Iraqi casualties.

I think it is responsible to remain and incur the former scenario.

Answer 4

My family understands my dedication as well as that if they ever pull a Cindy Sheehan, dishonoring my service, I'll haunt them and my will will disown them.

My frustration is knowing that so many 'don't support the war' because CNN and certain politicians have undermined the reasons for it. I don't completely fault those who don't support us in our mission, except that they seem so unwilling to listen to the 'ground' truth.

I continue to update my blog to explain the 'ground' truth:
http://blog.360.yahoo.com/blog-DfkctJU7dK5B7LcNROoyVQ--?cq=1

Let me express my gratitude to all of the families of our soldiers. My own family has accepted it but I've seen the difficulty in their eyes and it took them a long time to do so, even though they supported the war.

In reply to your update: As a means to help my family members, I always maintain positive information on the who's and why's. I remind them that I am well trained, as well as experienced, and that I have made the choice to defend this nation. And I find it very important that I don't give them the specific locations where I may be. In doing that, if anything does occur in that location they don't worry for those several hours between the occurence of the event and when I can get to the phone or computer. But I do try to give them a 'normal' call at somepoint thereafter, without mention of the event, so that they know it wasn't me.

So, since I keep work and location completely out of the conversations, the calls tend to be a bit shorter and more about them than me.

Thank you for your service and for your support of our Soldiers.

Answer 5

The hardest part of this Iraq war is the division of the American people; they were for it as long as we were beating Saddams forces, but not for it once it became protracted.

Answer 6

the hardest part is seeing people you know leave u and seeing Iraq always on the news and constantly watching our citizens die and absolutely nothing progressing in the war.

Answer 7

To me it's knowing that alot of people say they support the troops but not the war. I don't know how you can be one or another. To listen to a returning vet and hear them lament over the coverage they get in the media is so sad. They are doing their job and they do it well, it's too bad our media don't pay attention to that.
Leaving a loved one is very very hard, people don't realize that these people give up their very lives and what they hold dear to help our country.
The wives and husbands left behind have a huge job in front of them. The kids are the ones that pay.

Answer 8

My son is there for the fourth time. I miss him and worry as all Mothers do.
There are so many that are feeling the same as i. All i can do is write and pray that our sons,daughters mothers,dadsetc all come home safe.
I find after awhile people stop asking like it is old news.To them it is. To me it will never be old news.

Nice question.

Answer 9

the families that are left behind...they are also soldiers and tend to be forgotten in all of this.....my son in law is over for the second time.....

Answer 10

I don't understand this "support our troops" stuff. they are paid pawns put in a position to kill for corporations like Haliburton. They were lied to about the motivations for invading (WMD, "freeing the Iraqi people"). "Support our troops" should equate with "stop this illegal war!"