Do you believe that your safety and security is dependent on the outcome in Iraq?

Answer 1

No

The $500,000,000,000 wasted on Iraq so far could have easily been used to shore up security in the US.

Answer 2

Only very indirectly. I have nearly nothing to fear from Islamic terrorists, as I live in a rural community far from anything that might be construed as a terrorist target. Rather, my security and safety are threatened by my own government when they pass and enforce laws like the Patriot Act and do other things that endanger civil rights.

If the Iraq war is renounced by the next administration and the troops brought home, then hopefully some civil rights lost due to the war will be restored, and future administrations will know better than to trample civil rights in the same way again. On the other hand, the longer the war continues, the more justified it will come to seem, and hence, the more justified the civil rights violations will seem. And hence, the less safe and secure I will become.

Answer 3

Yes, absolutely, American safety and security is exactly the reason we should NOT stay in the middle of the civil war we started. Our invasion and occupation of Iraq has stirred up a hornets nest. How the USA proceeds will determine how badly the world and especially Americans get stung. Move our troops out of the Iraqi neighborhoods and position them to try to hold the volatile Middle East together while the inevitable carnage continues. If this leads to genocide in Iraq, then we must beg the world to intervene on our behalf, because the people of that region will never trust our motives when placing troops inside Iraqi boarders. From the outside of Iraq, we must promote diplomacy and compromise to settle their conflicts. Although we sadly can not lead in the uses of these democratic methods from our own example, possibly they can learn from our hubris and the price that America has and will continue to pay.

Answer 4

No... I personally don't. The world is a big place and the insurgents do not wish to come to America. Al-Quaeda wants to hit us again but they are just a small group with a lot of money but little compared to a nation like the United States. They are small in numbers and the United States Coast Guard is actually bigger in man power.

Nope, I am not scared in the least. This threat has been way over blown and its time we get over this. Yes, 9/11 was a tragedy and has cost us upwards of 4000 people... but the cost of 2 simulataneous wars and occupations, countless (in the tens of thousands and that is conservative) number of civilians' deaths and literally trillions of dollars when this is over is absurd. We will come out in the cost of this as the biggest losers. We really have to think about this. This is exactly what Al-Quaeda wanted; they could really care less for the killing of Americans (thats just icing on the cake for them), they wanted to cripple our economy. If we continue to fight a war against a phantom crime syndicate then that is exactly what will happen.... We are borrowing money from China for this war... let me repeat, we are borrowing money.
You think this war is free? And we have little progress to show for 7 years now for it.

Answer 5

Not at all. There are terrorist all over the world. That is what a global war should focus on. The war needs to end now. These people do not want us in their part of the world. Did you know that there are terrorists in the world that have said they do what they do in revenge for the Christian Crusades a thousand years ago. That tells me that a thousand years from now, we will still be fighting terrorist because of this occupation.

Answer 6

No, we are making more enemies in Iraq and the region! Which makes us, in fact, more unsafe!

George Bush is a poster boy for terrorist!

Iraq had no terrorist. Bush lied when he tried to link them to Al-Qaeda, he lied about the nuclear threat, he lied about the gas, and he lied about WMD's. Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11, yet we attacked it for oil and have had 4,058 body bags sent home and around 600,000 Iraqi dead. Hard to count them as Gen Franks "I don't do body counts" was in charge!

We have 105,000 vets from Iraq being treated at the VA and they had to threaten to sue Bush because many were getting NO medical treatment, thanks to Bush's cut to the VA hospitals while he gave the rich Tax cuts. They should feel ashamed to have accepted them and should send the money they don't need anyway, directly to the VA!

And this show s how we treat Iraqi civilians!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=IwVc2MIMdHs

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0Py_cMPyku4&mode=related&search=

Answer 7

No.

It's a sad fact that before we invaded, there weren't any real terrorist threat to be had.

Now that we have created thousands of new recruits for Osama, Bush is now proclaiming that everything hinges on being successful in Iraq--when he knows that he's grasping at straws.

This lost cause is going to bite us in the *** later on--and we'll have Bush to thank for that.

Answer 8

No. My safety and security depends on coming out of Iraq and refocusing on Al-Q's global network..

Answer 9

Yes and that's why we need to leave Iraq in good hands to a government that will become our allied

Answer 10

Hmmm...Let me see. Is my safety and security threatened if a terrorists organization bent on the destruction of the USA takes control of one of the richest oil fields on the planet?

Now that's a tough question.