If we leave then they can fight it out and we can keep our kids safe. Staying there only creates more hostility on their end. and we've already dumped every person's future chance at social security by spending way too much already. Why would leaving be so bad?
2007-08-22 08:41:01 · 23 answers · asked by ? 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Bush has never been right about a single thing regarding Iraq and I doubt that he suddenly is going to be right about this. Leaving is the only sane thing to do.
2007-08-22 08:50:06 · answer #1 · answered by tribeca_belle 7 · 1⤊ 9⤋
Well, let me put it like this.
If we were to leave Iraq, Iran would immediately try and seize power. This would draw Syria and Saudi Arabia into the fight to help the minority Sunni's. The UAE is Shiite and also has a vested interest. Additionally, Turkey has wanted to eradicate the Kurds for quite some time and would see this as their oppurtunuity. This would literally lead to an all out war in the region. Now, economically speaking, that's bad. Where do we get our oil from? The Middle East. Those $3 gas prices would be a nice memory. This would cause inflation to skyrocket due to companies having to raise prices on everything in order to distrubute the burden of manufacturing, shipping, etc. Ultimately this great economy we have would be destroyed.
Post Chaos wouldn't be any better. Iran would probably be the ultimate victor in this fight, being backed by venezuala and possibly Russia and China. This would be a very bad situation for us and we would actually just end up back here to kick Iran out and liberate Iraq again.
This isn't even mentioning the millions of innocents that would be slaughtered and murdered during the ensuing Shiite/Sunni war. Do you want to take responsibillity for that? We have nothing to do with Darfur and Libs are already condeming us for not stepping in. If we pulled out and that happend what do you think the world would think of us? Plus, it's just cowardly, dishonorable and selfish, three things soldiers are taught not too be.
And the cycle would begin.
Get it?
2007-08-22 15:58:43 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Did you miss the whole part about foreign mujahadin fighters going to Iraq to fight US soldiers and marines? Miss the whole historical fighting between Iraq and Iran? Miss the part about religious fundamentalists and Iran gaining a great amount of power and money from the oil there? Do you think they are just going to leave when the US does so that the Iraqi people can live the way they want to?
It would be devastating to both the Iraqi people and the US to have an Iranian puppet state run by foreign religious fundamentalists. The world (including the US) does not need the resources of a powerful country in the hands of religious terrorists.
Not too mention how quickly the Kurds would be set upon - which would spill over into NATO countries like Turkey.
2007-08-22 15:58:58 · answer #3 · answered by Patriotic Libertarian 3 · 4⤊ 0⤋
OK Time for you to get a big picture for a sec let say we leave.
Now the Muslim terrorists take over Iraq and wipe thousands of people like happen after Congress pulled the funding from Vietnam.
Remember Pol Pot?
Here is some moderate Muslim who want to stop these guys. What are his choices he can't count on U.S. because we will run away once it isn't pretty anymore.
Who is going to help stop the violence that will come and no doubt it will come.
Please remember after we pulled out after Blackhawk down did we go and avenage the deaths of our guys being drug through the streets. NOPE we ran away.
bin laden saw that as his movation to start his 9/11 plan.
You seem to forget that 9/11 was an attack on the U.S. Muslims were dancing in the street.
So our kids will be safe for a little while but the Mulisms understand long term you are thinking in the short term.
Remember 9/11 was the act of 1 group and now you are going to tell the rest we will run away if it get hard.
How many more attacks on U.S. will it take before you catch on this is a real war and we are in it for our lives. We were the ones who were attack on 9/11. We were determine to stop all of them but not you. You think if we run away it will get better.
You sound like Chamberline.
2007-08-22 16:00:59 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
When we leave Iraq, whether it's tomorrow or ten years from now, Iraq will fall into sectarian violence and civil war, and be subject to invasion from their neighbors. So Bush is correct, it WILL be devastating.
What he is missing is that there is nothing we can do to prevent this. The Sunni / Shia conflict has been going on for centuries, and nothing we can do within a reasonable time frame will put an end to it.
It's possible that we COULD have left a stable Iraq if we had gone in with enough troops and been ready to start rebuilding things immediately after the invasion. (If the reconstruction crews showed up as the military forces were moving out.) And if we had been able to provide security for people. We needed to take advantage of the Iraqi people's initial optimism about Saddam's fall. You can't leave them in the dark and without water for six months and expect them to still love you.
2007-08-22 15:53:44 · answer #5 · answered by Chredon 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋
If you do not care that Iraq could be come another Rwanda or Bosnia and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis will die if we pull out to soon. That a wider Middle Eastern war could start. Finally that Al Qaeda would leave Afghanistan and set up in Iraq, where after we leave we could political go back.
Iraq is a mess and we caused it. If we leave before stabilizing it, the mess will just become a lot bloodier.
2007-08-22 17:02:27 · answer #6 · answered by Chris 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
We'll be creating a second Afghanistan, leaving Iraq exposed to Iran (which would put Iran in striking distance to all of the Middle East's oil and Israel), leaving a giant power vacuum in the Middle East.
Whether people want to admit it or not, Al Qaeda has declared Iraq the central front in the war. There's a reason for that.
2007-08-22 15:54:00 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
It would be irresponsible to leave now, knowing that Iran is just waiting for the chance to move on making Iraq another Theocracy. That, and Civil unrest in Iraq means higher oil prices, more profit for the oil companies, and the Dems would blame THAT on George also.
2007-08-22 15:52:45 · answer #8 · answered by SteveA8 6 · 5⤊ 0⤋
Did you watch Sunday mornings debate with the Democrats? Hillary now has flipped flopped and stated that it will take a long time to remove all the equipment, maintain some peace and leave Iraq on a dime is no longer the chatter.
Keep up on your research. As if your life depended on it. It may. If we are not awake during this election we are doomed to repeat the mistakes made by more than Bush and his Daddy.
Leaving immediately will set off a chain reaction that could catapult the region into escalated warfare. ANd these countries have nuclear capacities. Pakistan has taken our millions and still has not prevented Osama Bin from his terror.
2007-08-22 15:53:18 · answer #9 · answered by Mele Kai 6 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Bush should just quietly step down period. Live in the mountains with Osama bin laden and share all the ladies. While the wars eventually fight out itself, to oblivion then everyone will have peace in the end, hopefully shaking hands with each other in peace and harmony.
2007-08-22 19:11:09 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
hey genius...it was CLINTON...not bush that taxed social security...
uss cole, clinton no reponse
african embassy bombings, clinton no response
wtc one, clinton no response
at least six chances to capture or kill bin laden in sudan, clinton no response
now we have wtc two and no attacks since we had a response
SEE A PATTERN HERE LIBERAL??? the idea is you responsd to an enemy and he stops attacking you.
2007-08-22 16:28:59 · answer #11 · answered by koalatcomics 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋