Why Are We Still In Iraq?

Question

President bush knows that he is losing the support of the americans because of the war. Why won't he listen to his people and pull out the soldiers? Even if it's a few of them.

Answer 1

Because the President--not the Congress, not the American populace, and not the American media--is the Commander in Chief. Because it's the President who makes the top military decisions, who is the best informed with daily intelligence reports that have trickled up to his level, who realizes that the well-being of his country and the well-being of Iraq is more important than winning some petty popularity contest back home. Because the President knows that most of the people who are waving anti-war signs, burning him in effigy, or doing other childish things have neither been involved in this war nor have been inconvenienced by it in any way; he also knows that most of them are really doing what they're doing for political reasons only, spurred on by those who stand to gain from him losing and/or looking bad. Because he knows that most of the American people neither know nor care what happens to the Iraqi people, and would sooner think badly of their own soldiers and their own government than the people who are trying to kill them and eradicate their way of life. The support of the American people is irrelevant, if the American people won't bother to take what both parties tell them with a grain of salt and bother to learn what's actually going on in the world around them, instead of watching rubbish on TV and believing what their favorite politicians tell them as truth.

The fact that the Democratic party and their presidential hopefuls, as well as the throngs of the misinformed who support them, share the same goal as Al Qaeda and every other insurgent and terrorist group in the Muslim world, ought to tell you something--those goals being the defeat of American forces and American interests in the region, more American and Iraqi deaths, and doing everything possible to destroy the name and reputation of not only the president and the office he holds, but of the United States as a whole. Burying your head in the sand doesn't make your problems go away; facing them--aggressively, if necessary--does.

Answer 2

I think as much as Bush would like compltete withdrawal and a reduction of military/civilian casualties, pulling out of Iraq would not be strategic. the conditions in Iraq right now continue to prove unstable and is not yet fully developed to run it's country independenly without having to control unknown terror cells and other insurgencies. To paraphrase bush's policy in iraq is that, the administration seeks to establishing security within the country before switching focus to political, economic and social structures. these structures can only be developed during times of peace so in the mean time the US has to contend with security problems and "stay the course" in Iraq. it is unfortunate, however, that the situation has worsened and Bush right now is stuck in a political quagmire. Withdrawing now would mean his failure to secure the area, but the US's resolved presence means more pressure on the Iraqi government and emboldening insurgencies and attacks.
finally, to answer your last question gradual withdrawal with a timetable is debatable. this is a question of politics and strategic issues. i don't really have the answer to that, but if you take a look at some of the sources i've listed they might give you perspective of what they believe to be right or wrong. they're not direct answers b/c in the political field anybody can be right or wrong. observe some of the evidence given and decide.

Answer 3

His job is now for the history books. He has to be portrayed as having left office while still holding to his firm belief that his was the right course of action. It will take another president to end the war, Joe Biden was right when he said that at the debate.

Answer 4

Would you rather they were fighting on our home soil? The job is not done yet and if they pull out now the war is going to be here in the usa.

Answer 5

Because Bush wants to save face by passing this war on to the next Administration.

Answer 6

Withdrawal from Iraq must be immediately staged because Saddam Hussein was already executed and a government was already established thereat.

Answer 7

Because Bush thinks he's playing GI Joe with the little green soliders.

He thinks it's a game.

Answer 8

OIL
to those idiots the say "our work isn't done" , the majority of the population decides decides if its war or not (in this case) , and a referendum can stop the war and make us "turn home"

Answer 9

Because The Iraqis are to lazy to embrace their own responsibilities, and why should they when they can just sit back and watch our young men and women die.

Answer 10

f u bush hater Gosh!!!!!!! the reason were there is if we leave the insurgents would take over that exact day