How big of a wholesale slaughter will result when the US leaves Iraq?

Question

Does it matter to you?

Answer 1

Just about as big as right now. Does anyone think American soldiers are a deterrent to Sectarian Violence? US troops have simply been in harms way for some time and are superfluous to what ever happens in Iraq.

Answer 2

There is no doubt it will occur. But, it will happen no matter when we leave Iraq. 10 years, 20. Do we stay forever, sacrificing our own peoples lives to keep another country's people from killing each other? The "Great Unite-er" can't even unite the people of Iraq. They are more interested in killing each other than having a democratic government. We have made a terrible mess of that country. Meddling in another country's business is bad business. I sincerely hope the people of the U.S. have learned that lesson. We should have stuck to the search for the 9/11 culprits. All information points to the fact they were NOT in Iraq, but, the oil was!

Answer 3

There's no telling, but one thing is for certain. The US gave them plenty of time for political reconciliation, so it's obvious that they really do want to fight it out. It's also become more evident that no matter when the US troops are withdrawn, there will be a bloody civil war in Iraq which will involve the neighboring countries.

Answer 4

But you guys are all talking about this as though the American invasion had done good to that country.
Until a certain misguided president decided the U.S. had to go to war, there was no major problem in Iraq.
So let me ask you this:
If you hired someone to build a house. And they said sure: no problem. It'll be done in three months. Two years later, they've come up with a slew of excuses why it isn't done, why they have to charge you six times the price of it, why all sorts of accidents happen. And end up telling you the original estimate was based on the idea of building a house, but what you really need is a grain silo.
Would you keep paying that contractor, or would you fire him and sue him for damage?

Answer 5

None. Yes, it matters. The US will leave when the enemy is defeated, when Iraq governs itself, when the Iraq army and police can control the country.
There will be no slaughter...any worse than it is now.

Answer 6

There is a CIVIL WAR going on in Iraq,It is a CIVIL WAR that was un-leashed when Bush waged his illegal war of choice based upon a pack of filthy lies that has seen the slaughter of over 400,00 INNOCENT Iraqi civilians.

Every hour,every day seven days out of seven ,the media is full of details on each and every US soldier killed but not one friggin moment spent on the slaughter of these 400,000 innocents slaughtered because of Bush and the US.

Every night on many channels, the names of the dead are solemnly scrolled across the screen BUT NEVER EVER ONE SLAUGHTERED IRAQ CIVILIAN EVER SHOWS UP.

So let us all have no illusions about this question.

BASED UPON HISTORY,NO AMERICANS GIVE A DAMN ABOUT THE 400,000 slaughtered innocents .This board is a reflection of America and never have I seen any American even bother to ask about these slaughtered innocents.


Whether the US leaves Iraq today or next year you can be sure of one thing ,the Iraqis WILL HAVE THEIR CIVIL WAR just as you AMERICANS had YOUR Civil WAr and trying to stop a Civil War in Iraq is as futile as trying to stop the US Civil War.

Be assurred however ,that most of the peoples in the rest of the world ,do and will care deeply about the slaughter the US has un-leashed in Iraq.

Such good little Christian Americans full of Christ's love,compassion ,foregiveness .What a bunch of raving sanctimonious ,holier-than-thou monumental friggin hypocrites.

As they say ,THAT"S A WRAP !!!

Answer 7

I see a lot of answers from a lot of people that:

Have never been there yet act like they know exactly what is happening
Don't know what is going on except what CNN tells them
Have no clue, yet passing their opinion off as fact
Forgetting that congress approved the invasion


To bad they don't read that the Iraqi government is pleading with us to stay so as to avoid a secular uprising. The chance that Iran will invade is plausible, yet they want to ignore that fact. Terror cells will immediately settle in and begin to devastate the newly created Iraqi government and in the end, we will wind up back in Iraq whether under humanitarian, action or NATO reasons.

Americans don't seem to think about that kind of thing, and it is because they are blinded by our own media. Yet if you ask a Soldier who has been there his or her opinion on it, should they choose to give it, they would come very close to what I have just said.

Some people just need to wake up

Answer 8

leaves it when? a year from now? five years from now? ten years from now???

why do you assume the only possible outcome of the USA leaving Iraq is"wholesale slaughter"

Answer 9

The U,S, govt needs to stop acting so almighty and mind it's own damn business.How arrogant do you have to be to make people hate you enough to hijack airplanes and attack you with them? Those self-aggrandizing windbags never even considered the thought that their actions and foreign policies have pissed people off all over the entire planet.It's time to stop pretending that the U.S.is protecting the rest of the world and realize that it is only bullying and butting in where it is not wanted.If 911 didn't wake them up to this fact then nothing will.

Answer 10

yes of course. If the point you are trying to make is that we shouldn't leave then let me ask you this. Will staying there while maintaining the same level of troops for ten years really make the slaughter smaller?