When will the Iraq war end?

Question

Some people say "when cant leave the job half done." The thing is that there is not half done job. It has not even been accomplished the first mission. Others say, "we have to support our soldier" Support them to what? To die?

Getting into Iraq has been USA worst mistake. Why? Because there is nothing as dangerous as fighting with civilians. They don't have uniform, you don't know many times who is the enemy. They just come, blow up and kill a bunch of soldiers.

Why is USA still in Iraq? Simple, Bush administration want to leave the mess to democrats. Once USA gets defeated, it gonna be blamed against Democrats. That is why republican say "the war is going ok," because they want the public to believe so, then when Democrats take the power, the republicans would say that the war is going in a bad way.

And who gonna be blamed? Democrats. The public will be upset with Democrats and Republicans will take the power again on 2013. U know, people forget fast.

Have your say! Your opinion?

Answer 1

Mark my words we will get out in 2031.
That's how long it takes to conservatives to understand a concept.

Answer 2

It will end when the people of this country DEMAND we leave Iraq to the Iraqi's.

There's a lot of talk about defeating the "terrorists" before we can leave. If you believe that, then please tell me who these terrorists are. Frankly I don't think you or anybody knows. To be more precise, I don't think you think at all but are basing what should be logical decisions on emotional input. There are all these platitudes floating around, but the briefest objective look shows they are nothing. We've been fed these things since 9/11 when the people were in shock and ready to believe and strike back at anything, so a few platitudes served to drive this country to war. Now we're stuck and the Democrats and the republicans are fighting their very own war, a political war, which is keeping the real war going, much to Mr Bush's joy.

So let us ask ourselves some basic questions that should be asked.
1. Who are the "terrorists?"
Answer: They are a mixed group, but for the most part, they are Iraqi's wanting us out of their country. (We would fight any occupiers of our country, yes?)

2. Why are we at war in Iraq?
Answer: There have been several:
A. Their weapons of mass destruction are a threat to the USA
B. To rid the world of the evil Saddam Hussien
C. To bring democracy to Iraqi's
D. To save Iraq from chaos.
E. To defeat the "terrorists."

Reasons A through C have been proven lies. Reason D is absurd as Iraq is in chaos now and because of us. Our leaving would help end the chaos. (Try thinking)

Reason E is a platitude, a ghost with no meaning. The Iraqi people want us out of Iraq and the longer we stay, the longer they fight. They've been fighting invaders centuries before the Cursades.

The real reason we're in Iraq is two fold.
1. We want a stable government that will allow our oil corporations rights to Iraqi oil and able to protect those corporations. This current government we installed does not have the approval of the Iraqi people and now wants us out. Pay attention: We will attempt to install another government soon.
2. Pride. We were tricked into the Vietnam war (The Gulf of Tonkin never happened) and lost that war. Now we have been tricked into another war and are loosing and no one has the common balls to say so and pull the plug on this disease, so it has become a political football used to score points for or against - while our troops and the Iraqi people are dying. Oh yes, and those groups that really do hate us are using our occupation as a recruiting tool. And lest we forget, we are driving our national debt into the stratosphere. Question: WHo holds most of that debt? China and Japan. Ahhhh so....

Answer 3

When we had the run-up to hostilities, I remember trying to explain to my family how we needed to divest ourselves of a couple of heavy divisions and get another 50,000 or so extra troops in civil affairs, military police, and special ops, especially Arabic-speaking Green Beanies. And while we're cleaning house, make the Air Farce (I claim the right to take liberties here having worn the blue suit) needed to delay the F-22 and F-35 programs and buy more important airframes, the C-17 and the old 130 HerkyBird being the most important planes in their inventory. The administration has been glacially slow in doing anything about force structure.
They were also quite slow in recognizing that we were in another war of a 4th-generation type before the 3rd-generation war was completed. Still, fighting this kind of war isn't impossible as many think. It's been done with success in the past. Petraeus wrote the new manual on it, and that was largely a matter of swallowing Army pride and updating old and successful Marine doctrine that had been forgotten.
Having grown up in the Vietnam era, I remember LBJ micromanaging to ruin. Now I see Bush not being involved enough. They've tried to do it on the cheap, without rocking any boats at home, and that has (obviously) been counterproductive.
I have every confidence that the military can do the job, and I'm modestly optimistic the Iraqis can do theirs, now that both finally seem to be pointed in the right direction, if not strongly so. I also fear what will happen if the sectarian violence is unchecked by a US presence and spills over, say, into Saudi Arabia, which is the key to a huge chunk of our economy. So I moan and groan and reluctantly support the war.
By the way, there's an effective way to pick out the enemy. You patrol aggressively, do your civil affairs work, and the locals point them out to you. It's working quite well in Fallujah. Sitting in enclaves, as was common from '03 to '06, protecting your force, paradoxically gets people killed.

Answer 4

Bush illegally attacked a country that had nothing to do with 9/11 or terrorism.

There is no such thing as a war on terrorism. Like Col Hackworth said " It's not a thing; it's not a place; it's not a person. It is a political and military strategy, that's all. Having a 'War On Terrorism' is as ridiculous as having a 'War on Flanking Maneuvers'. You'll end terrorism when there's no longer anything for anybody to get pissed off about."!

It is great for a government that wants a never ending war in order to keep corporate welfare alive and well!

Bush wants to start a war with Iran over nothing. The only weapons they have WE SOLD THEM! (sound familiar?)!
They could not make a bomb before Bush is out of office or the next president is out of office.! Even if they did they have no way to deliver it! Do you see the same old crap on Fox, they just changed Iraq to Iran!

The Republicans blame everything on the Democrats! They are right about 10% of the time.

This president has left a legacy of failure in every aspect of government! He should be impeached for having a private ARMY he pays named Black Water USA. They are not guards as guards are not sniping Iraqi civilians from roof tops! And they certainly are not cruising the streets of New Orleans!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8

And Bush is so stupid he says this, and he knows he is lying!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6Z1tevub9I&NR=1

Answer 5

I think in general all U.S. conflicts in the Middle East will end when the oil is gone. There are other unstable hot spots in the world that could demand just as much attention as Iraq. There is a cost-benefit to be considered in any military action. #1 you have to remember that our economy is based on oil. #2 Supply must flow or there would be garunteed domestic anarchy, and our government knows this. #3 Iraq is sitting on an ocean of sweet high grade crude-the stuff industrialized economies are made of.

Answer 6

Keep in mind that this is just as much the Democrats war as it is the Republicans.At the time there were enough Democrats in congress to block the decision to go to war in the first place.It was the Democrats that first turned this war into a political issue.If both Democrats and Republicans just learn their place and stop trying to use this war to increase their own political status then we would win the war causing it to end.

Answer 7

Boy you sure are invested in defeat! The fact is that our troops are far from beaten, unfortunately a lot of misguided people at home are ready to throw in the towel because this situation is taking longer than a video game to resolve. We were in Germany and Japan for decades before we determined they were stable enough to govern themselves. Rebuilding a country isnt a weekend project. That is particularly true when you have a lot of little regional powers trying to influcence the situation and attempting to control the fledgling Iraqi govt via insurgency. The fact is that we have lost relatively few troops in this endeavor. I say that despite the fact that I lost a brother in Afganistan on July 9, 2007. It was his final deployment (he volunteered) before he retired. It was his 4th deployment to the middle east. He believed in what he was doing and told us that they were making a lot of progress on the ground despite what the media said. You make a lot of unsubstantiated assertions as to how bad the war is going. Look at the stats and they tell another story. Quit depending on the sensationalist media for your information. Do your own research and ask questions. Read the congresses Authorization to use force in Iraq and the Iraqi liberation act of 1998 and see why we are actually there. Listen when Al-quida complains that they will avenge their losses in Iraq. The terrorists are there, we are fighting them, and we are winning.

Answer 8

As long as war is profitable for campaign contributing corporations, it will continue, regardless of party in control. If not in Iraq, then somewhere else.

I am almost 50, the US has had wars going on every year of my life. Some folks have made a great deal of money off of other people's blood.

Answer 9

It will be over when Dubya bankrupts the country, sells it off piece-meal to corporate interests and replaces well paying American jobs with minimum wage subsistence living jobs.

The two party system is NOT working!

Answer 10

yes you are right, i am mexican though, here in mexico we think that war is over and the only thing left to do is to stabilize iraq, they have suffered so much and they are paying a burden which does not belong to them, here we have even got threats from Al-Qaeda because Mexico is the mayor oil exporter to the U.S.A. and we agree in a-lot of the U.S.A's international policies, that war has even affected us and we were not even involved in it, terrorism here was unheard off until that conflict

Answer 11

When we win and the situation is resolved.

If the Iraqi situation is merely another occasion to bash Bush then why will the Democrats not commit to withdrawing the troops?