War is hell, War is horrific. I just saw a video of young men getting beheaded, I almost threw up. Sure it makes me mad, but it could not happen if we were not over there. Don't you think we would have been better off spending the money wasted on this war to shore up our defenses and infrastructure? I think if you support war and take it lightly, you have a screw loose somewhere.
2007-10-12 05:18:13 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Lets talk to the people of Iraq and see if they think the wrong decision was made. Lets talk to the women who were not dragged to the rape rooms of Saddam's sons. Lets talk to the remaining relatives of the people found in mass graves. Lets talk to the Kurds who survived being gassed by Saddam. These are things that were going on before we went to Iraq. Tell me just one of them that you would like to see continuing. No answer. Do you still think all the money was wasted?
2007-10-12 05:31:01 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 1⤋
No one in their right mind supports war, but history is defined by it. It all depends on what you think is worth fighting for. Our Country, which gives us the right to have this forum was brought into being by a war. Western Civilization as we know it came into being, over the course of several wars.
The Iraq war might prove to be the war that preserved our right to exist, I don't know.
What I do know is that people, Americans and others, were regularly getting beheaded in Iraq before this war ever started. We didn't bring that particular atrocity into being by starting this war, it was going on before we went there, only it wasn't soldiers who were getting beheaded, but rather civilians, who went there to help. We don't hear so much about hostage taking and beheading now.
Perhaps this war has done some good, in spite of it's cost.
The Mideast has been at war with us for years. There have been many attacks on us as a nation and on the Western world in general. 9/11 was only the most horrific, and the closest to home.
We have responded in a way that offends some of us because of the cost, and others on moral grounds. The fact is that some things are worth fighting for, like our American way of life and the freedom to live the way we do, and if we don't fight, then we will lose them.
2007-10-12 05:55:15 · answer #2 · answered by maryjellerson 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes war is hell.
Sometimes it is very necessary.
If people would start to take what these despots say to heart and deal with it early maybe we could stop a couple of wars.
All through the middle 1930s Hitler was talking about the Sudetenland and in Mien Kampf he laid out his plans then when he got to power this fellow named Chamberlain begged and pleaded with him to play nice and declared "Peace in our time" 20 million dead later and we knew that for the lie it was.
The League of nations was a good idea but it didn't work.
The same can be said for the United Nations.
It seems to me a lot of people out there never studied and world history.
I just told you about 1 instance and I picked it because even Holocaust deniers don't yet deny WW2.
Now we have a nut in Iran saying destroy Israel and the world is saying nah he don't mean that. And this turkey is trying to get his hands on nukes.
The world never listens to these maniacs and then after they cause major wars everybody says why didn't somebody do something.
Well Bush did.
It's not like the damn games you play on your computers when you want to and put it up when you don't.
Legally we can't just send in a hit squad and kill these bastards but it sure would simplify the situation.
2007-10-12 05:59:27 · answer #3 · answered by CFB 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
There are many ways to fight terrorism, I suppose. I think Bush's plan was to spread democracy in the hopes it would take off throughout the Middle East.
Others are for shoring up our defenses as you describe.
Still, others are for soul-searching and against even doing wiretaps to find out what the bad guys are up to.
I believe the real fear, and a true risk, is what might happen if some "loose cannon" third world nation develops nukes and passes a couple off to terrorist groups. Those things could end up in any large city and the consequences would be horrific.
Regardless, terrorism in the nuclear age is a problem that cannot be ignored, no matter who is in office.
2007-10-12 05:36:24 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
Define "War".................
Could war be a police task force fighting to take down a meth lab next door that could've blown up and killed your whole family? Could war be fighting to free slaves or stopping communism regimes and pro-genocide governments. A better question would be why aren't there more "wars" to stop the current wars in places in like Africa.
2007-10-12 06:57:47 · answer #5 · answered by Hunter 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
War sucks. 95% of the people killed are innocent. This also has a strong impact on the enviroment causing like what... 20% of greenhouse gas? War is wrong. War shouldnt exist
God bless
2007-10-12 05:26:13 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 3⤋
If we do a rapid pull out of Iraq the fighting there will spread and get worse. That is the only reason why I support it.
2007-10-12 05:22:01 · answer #7 · answered by Chris 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Terrorism should have been fought by bombing or sending in special forces missions. The US should have never gotten into the nation building business...and thats exactly what it is...a business.
2007-10-12 05:23:02 · answer #8 · answered by Edge Caliber 6 · 1⤊ 2⤋
the only thing worse than leaving iraq - is staying there.
this is a war that never should have been started.
2007-10-12 05:25:42 · answer #9 · answered by nostradamus02012 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
this is such a frustrating topic. who is going win this war anyway? probably the terrorirsts
2007-10-12 06:30:56 · answer #10 · answered by Soda 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋