I've been ill about it since we went in....and I turn the station every time it's on.
2007-08-16 19:56:33 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
Well said gratvol. That is a really mature response and very refreshing to read on a site where most of the answers seem to be from "shoot the bastards, they're all terrorists" types.
However, I don't think it's possible to fix the situation, whether the troops leave today or in 10 years' time. Toppling Saddam's regime destablised Iraq and unleashed a power struggle that can't be fixed by conventional means. Sadly it takes a dictator ruling by sheer fear to keep a lid on this kind of inter-tribal hatred among Arabs, and the next dictator in Iraq may well be an Ayatollah. I seriously don't think Bush and his advisers had any idea what they were getting themselves and the rest of the world into when they invaded.
Sorry, I'm digressing! To answer the question, I'm very sad and sick about it too, but there is a sense of inevitability about the outcome and it won't be the guys in white hats who ride into the sunset in triumph.
2007-08-16 20:34:03 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I'm suprised that there aren't more questions like this. It's a clear case of the Emperor wearing no clothes. This has nothing to do with freedom (ours OR Iraq's) and if it had anything to do with oil it's also a miserable failure in that regard. I think this has to do with addiction to winning, but the cost is many lives. People's parents, children, spouses, friends, ENTIRE FAMILIES maimed or killed. Unconscionable.
What do you do with the feeling that it doesn't matter how strongly you or anyone else objects?
2007-08-17 06:36:35 · answer #2 · answered by metanoia 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I could stomach it even less if our departure directly results in more bloodshed and civil war.
regardless of the reason we destroyed the system of government in Iraq. If their is any way we can restore law and order we are morally obligated to do so.
We made the mess, and we should fix it if we can.
2007-08-17 03:15:24 · answer #3 · answered by Gamla Joe 7 · 5⤊ 0⤋
I am sure that the men on the ground are more ill about it then you. Fortunately they will stay to finish the job. Because if they do not, the terrorists will get an oil rich country to fund them and they will follow us home.
I imagine you will get really sick of the war when it is fought in your yard.
2007-08-17 05:23:08 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is "tiger by the tail" situation now.
They should have got rid of Saddam Hussain and Co. and left immediately.
Let the natives sort out their problem from there on.
But now might become another Vietnam.
2007-08-17 06:44:42 · answer #5 · answered by Hudson 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cant stomach another second of it...
2007-08-17 07:26:01 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋