Have "we won" (Iraq) yet?

Question

If we have won why are we still there? If we have not won what do we have to win to say we won? Do "they" just need to say "uncle", cross their hearts and promise be better citizens then we move on?

How does everyone like the "we are in this for years"? I don't agree to a repeat of Korea and Vietnam, do you?

Answer 1

Lt Gen Ricardo Sanchez says something about IRAQ war!
please read this news!
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/7042805.stm

Answer 2

NO. He felt that Iraq turned right into a distraction to the actual warfare on terrorism which become in Afghanistan. Afghanistan had ties to the Taliban and Bin encumbered and 9/11. Iraq had none of this stuff. the american public ignore that it become the US (and the conservative god Reagan) who placed Sadam Hussein in skill to save the Islamic radicals of Iran in examine. Iraq become the most secular usa contained in the middle east. Sadam become truly no longer an excellent guy yet he wasn't an Islamic fundamentalist in any respect structure or style. Going into that usa had easily no longer something to do with terrorism It had each and everything to do with going into Iraq to end the interest of the Gulf warfare and get a foothold contained in the middle East oil region. So Obama has felt Iraq hasn't ever been element of the warfare on terror and hence would not help escalating it. that is Bush's fault. He all started those warfare with obviously no sparkling plan and no targets. we were in Afghanistan for 8 years??? What have we executed? What have we executed in Iraq. (which become meant to be a six month operation and value us no longer something in accordance to Cheney) Why ought to he take responsiblity for a multitude he inherited? those wars opt for to be wrapped up and finished.

Answer 3

From a military standpoint, we won about three weeks after we started. Our armies occupied Baghdad. The existing government was toppled. End of story.

However, international law dictates that the winning force is basically responsible for maintaining stability in the occupied country. Therefore, international law, as well as our own interests, dictated that we needed to stay after the invasion.

The million dollar question... make that the multi-billion dollar question... is how much longer we need to stay to hold up our end of the bargain.

Answer 4

This 'war' was never intended to be 'won'. From its very first day, this 'war' was - and still is - about OIL and WAR PROFITEERING.
We will remain in Iraq for decades - perhaps even generations - until we've sucked every drop of OIL from Iraq's sands. When we 'stay' in a country after 'winning' a 'war', what we're really saying it it's in our 'best interests' - which most often means there is economic incentive for the giant U.S. military-industrial complex [which Eisenhower warned us about more than fifty years ago].

This unconstitutional, illegal, immoral, unjustified 'war' against another sovereign nation that in no way threatened, provoked or attacked the United States is all about making a handful of wealthy elitists, industrialists, and power brokers wealthier and more powerful.

675,000 Iraqis and 3,900 U.S. soldiers have given their lives so that a few rich people can get richer. We have no intention of leaving Iraq in the foreseeable future.
That's WHY the Bush administration's number one non-military benchmark is trying to force the Iraqi Parliament to surrender two-thirds of its oil fields to private, foreign oil companies, which - in effect - allows corporations like Exxon-Mobil to virtually STEAL Iraq's most valuable economic resource;
That's WHY the U.S. is building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bush administration;
That's WHY Halliburton is building fourteen (yes -14!) new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.
We're there for the OIL, and we won't leave until all the OIL's gone!
George Bush, Dick Cheney, Don Rumsfeld and all their war-mongering friends deserve a special OIL-soaked, blood-stained corner of Hell where they can rot eternally, along with:
535 members of the most arrogant, incompetent, wicked, cowardly, contemptible, corrupt Republican-led Congress in U.S. history which stood by and allowed Bush to run rip shod over our Constitution
-and-
535 members of the most arrogant, incompetent, wicked, cowardly, contemptible, corrupt Democratic-led Congress in U.S. history which promised to end this 'war' if elected, and - to date - has done nothing to keep that promise.
May God DAMN them all!! -RKO- 10/15/07

Answer 5

Do your history on Vietnam before to comparing. Vietnam was so much worse. The new government in Iraq is just getting started. Their not ready to handle security alone. If we pulled out now it would just lead us back very soon. Major changes take time. I know we all want this to be over by it just takes time.

Answer 6

Oh, by your rules we "win" a war and leave? That isn't how it worked in Japan, Germany, and several other foreign countries where we have military installations. No one was deluded into thinking it would be a "quick" victory, Bush himself said the struggle "...could take years". I know you dems want everything wrapped up in a pretty little bow, but life just doesn't work like that. You stay until the job is finished.

Answer 7

We won Iraq just like we won in Germany or Japan. And just like then we are staying to help them rebuild.

Answer 8

No! We will have won when the Iraqi people live in a totally free society and one cannot put a timetable on something as huge as this!

Answer 9

We didn't win Iraq, because there's no way to win. It's a quagmire. Can you say Vietnam?

Answer 10

bush LOST iraq the day he invaded.

The sooner the waste of American lives and tax dollars end there, the better.