Do people really understand the catastrophic consequences of a Coalition withdrawal from Iraq?

Question

A massively empowered Iran with control over the oil fields in the south of Iraq is one of the BEST case scenarios.

A massive Sunni/Shi'ite civil war ACROSS THE REGION, oil prices throught the roof and terrorists being bred by the thousand in a failed state is also very possible.

Answer 1

I really do understand this and I agree with you, but i don't see a solution. There's not much left of the "coalition" anymore. We'll soon be going it alone in Iraq. Since the Sunnis and Shiites have been fighting violently for over 1300 years over the legimate heir to Mohammad (Ali versus the Caliphate), there WILL be a religious war. That's guaranteed. I noticed the report on the Yahoo homepage this morning that 1.6 million Iraqis have been displaced by religious strife. It's the Iraqis who are blowing up the rival mosques. I honestly understand your question and concern and I have studied this deeply. Of course, an instant pullout is logisically impossible. The minimum time I've heard to get our equipment and troops out is 18 months. You've posed a good question, but you have to accept the fact there is only one solution--a permanent presence in Iraq. It frustrates me immensely to see the posters here who only dwell in the past and blame the President. They forget Saddam kicked out the U.N. inspectors and while he didn't have nuclear weapons, he was working on it. I think we should have left when Saddam was deposed and we destroyed his biological and chemical weapons but we didn't and we can't change that now. Our errors in Iraq are staggering, but you've got to understand the only solution to the problems you posed is a permanent presence. I don't think the American people can stomach that. I'm a Vietnam vet and I know what happens when the American citizens have had enough.

Answer 2

The catastrophic consequences of an undemocratic war, a war in which the people of the UK and the US were not consulted, is for the idiots who decided on their 'coalition' agenda in the first place.
The people weren't consulted before they committed the world to a scenerio of heightened conflict and it would demonstrate further their love affair with autocracy if they dared to consult the public on how 'the public' should help them recover from their loss of credibility and status as leaders.
The place and circumstance they have created for millions of people across the world who will suffer as a result of their direct involvement in retaliating to 9/11 with bloodshed and mayhem is the hell in which their conscience now stands before God.
An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is the primitive behaviour of Neanderthal Man, of Old Testament Bible thumping retributionists, the politics of modern renaissance man whose actions testify to the absurdity of a Kantian philosophy that states modernism is 'man's emergence from self-imposed immaturity'.
Do people really understand that the human will is above all, evil, when it is not under the proper governance of a God who has warned us that everything outside of Christ will FAIL?

Answer 3

Why do you think so many people were agaisnt the Iraq war in the first place?!

Do you realise Iran has as much right as the US over the Iraqi oil fields (ie aboslutely none whatsoever)? No? I didn't think so.

Answer 4

most people really DO understand the possible consequences of a troop withdrawl.
don't forget,there are other countries there besides iran.
i seriously doubt iran would be able or willing to go to war with the whole middle east.

my question to you is,do you really understand the catastrophic consequences of going to war in iraq in the first place??
evidently not.......


P.S. oil prices have already gone through the roof or haven't you noticed.

Answer 5

Coalition?

Oh you mean the United States,the UKand all those token contingents sent to make Shrub shut up.

Look,even if we stay 20 years ,there's gonna be massive bloodshed as soon as we leave.Our presence has destabilized the region in such a massive way,it's unavoidable.The only difference now between staying and going is with us gone,no more Americans get killed.

Answer 6

Maybe we need a kick in the butt to stop using fossil fuels and show the world that America can, once again, be a world leader in innovation and production. This time with alternative and renewable, clean energy sources. The withdrawal may force us to do that (the kick in the butt that wakes people up)

Answer 7

Who's stupid idea was it to go in there in the first place? Lets see you fool Republicans told us everything that was going on in Iraq about Weapons connections to 9/11 and the like. You were wrong. Now you want to tell us what will happen when we leave as if you know. Excuse me if I think your entire party lacks any credibility right now.

Answer 8

Of course they don't.

Most of the people on YA think the Paris Peace talks ended the Vietnam War. All they ended was Americas involvement.

What ended the Vietnam War was the slaughter of 2,000,000 South Vietnamese loyalist by the North Vietnamese AFTER the Paris Peace talks.

All these people see is what happened this week according to ABC, CNN, CBS, etc, etc, etc............. Their idea of reality is so contorted it is absurd.

Tens of thousands of innocent people have been slaughtered world wide by radical muslim barbarians for decades but all these lemmings see is that "Bush started the war" - right!!!!

He's the only one to stand up and say enough is enough.

The only thing worse is that these naive and/or truly ignorant souls appear to lack any interest in understanding recent history and are completely lacking in any ability in believing in something strongly enough and at a significant depth to produce foresight.

This country is in deep sh*t if this lack of brain power continues much longer.

Answer 9

Coalition? Surely you jest.

Iraq's national security should, at this point, be Iraq's responsibility, not ours. The fact that al-Maliki has basically come out and said that he thinks the U.S. has no right to refuse to take care of Iraq any more tells me everything I need to know about the Iraqis and their worthiness of our support.

Answer 10

I think most Americans are completely unconcerned about that the genocide that will inevitably follow but they simply don’t understand the economic catastrophe that will follow in the US as oil prices rocket.

The only sensible answer is to stay in Iraq for 10-20 years to keep some kind of control over the chaos.