Why shouldn't we end the Iraq war, bring the troops home immediately since this is an illegal war?

Answer 1

You are sadly mistaken and need to continue your education. The war we are in is not illegal. It has the full cooperation of not only the President but of the Senate and House of Representatives. Your elected officials may sit there and squawk, but let me tell you they all voted to do this. One person (the president) can not do all that is being done in Iraq by himself. It is a TEAM effort.

By the way, I would much rather have them fighting over THERE than here. How would you like to have 9 11 happen in your neighborhood every day????

Answer 2

this War is not illegal we were voted into it by the congress (who then voted to not give the troops the money and support we needed) so it's far from illegal. For the second thing we shouldn't pull out of Iraq because of all the good we are doing over there helping thier people and improving their way of life. If we started to pull troops out like liberals are talking about then we would lose more soldiers in a month than we have in the last few years of this war.

Answer 3

That is a very simplistic approach.

Not sure how you define illegal. Suspect you'd supported it if it'd been a Democrat who initiated it. Realistically Clinton if he'd had the guts should have done it before he left office. Iraq has nothing to do with oil, with 911 or the war on terrorism.

We invaded Iraq because Saddam not only had but had USED WMDs not only on Iran but on his own people. He openly was seeking more. If the Isrealis hadn't blown up his breeder reactor then Iraq might well have had nuclear weapons during the first gulf war. Our "allies" Saudi Arabia and Pakistan wanted Saddam gone. So did the rest of the West. He'd fired on American aircraft and ships. He'd violated all the terms of the treaty that ended the first gulf war and was on the verge of another ethnic cleansing against the Kurds and Shiites.

Once Saddam was gone and elections held I felt we were done in Iraq and if we'd left then we'd left heroes with a job well done.

We stayed for several reasons. The biggest was the weak economy in the US. Not because of oil but because of a soft job market and pending elections. If we'd brought back all those soldiers and contractors it'd destroyed Bush politically.

Another reason we are still there is we challenged El Quida or however you spell it. We said that the Iraq war was about terrorism. So the terrorists came. Came in large numbers. Now we actually are battling terrorists in some areas where terrorists did not exist before. These guys had no love of Saddam. He was hated by the terrorists even though he did fund some terrorist groups and render other aid. Saddam was a very minor player in the terrorism circuit. Now we just pull out it'll become a recruiting poster for terrorists.

We cannot afford the economic hit right now of the HUGE jobless rate that all those people coming back would create. This exposes the huge lie the Democrats keep talking about. They can't bring back the troops without seeing the economy devastated. They know it but they still lie to the American people just as much as the Republicans did. If they brought back the troops it'd wipe them out of office next elections. Think about it close a million Americans are involved over there as soldiers or contractors. Hundreds of thousands of others here would be laid off. The economic toll would rock the country from one end to the other.

Next there's the politcal fall out. We leave Iraq like we are running scared it'll just create a house of cards over there. No you won't see terrorists in the streets of the US. They are already here. Iraq has nothing to do with that. What you will see is Pakistan fall. A nuclear Pakistan, and you'll see nukes fall into the hands of terrorists. You'll see Iran's fantics strengthened and force Israel into a war. You might see Egypt's and Saudi Arabia's Govs fall into Islamic Militant hands as well. You'd also see Sudan emboldened and likely see the genocide renewed with vigor there.

No we need to leave with a victory and what scares me is neither political party has a plan or clue as to how to achieve that. The Republicans think we can just occupy Iraq indeffinitely. The Democrats talk big but have no idea how to get us out of there without looking like cowards.

Answer 4

Where in the heck did you come up with "illegal war" That is the lamest thing I have heard this morning... LMAO. No, we should not bring our troops home immediately, because the soldiers we have lost or have been injured(my son included) would have lost and or died for nothing. We ARE doing great things over there, you don't hear that on the media though and you never will. The democrats don't want us hearing about the great things that are going on there..Talk to a soldier that has been there, they will tell you... Really you need to get a clue about this "illegal" war thing... Lame lame lame

Answer 5

Hmmmm... are you severe?!... We destroyed the government of Iraq and via worldwide regulation we can't go away till there's a central authority in place to guard the folk... the actual difficulty is.. that lots of the folk interior the rustic are of one faith that would not understand the rights of the remainder of the folk and visa versa... so that's no longer effortless to establish a democratic government... because of this, it is going to take us approximately 2 generations to alter the attitude of the folk there with a view to correctly known that individuals of all faiths have specific rights, no longer only those of the governing faith... 2 generations.. or approximately 40 years of toiling interior the barren region... If congress cuts the investment and forces our troops out then the government will fall down and a few sort of vicious dictatorship will take over and there'll be chaos for a time.. many harmless lives lost.. many skill struggles.. and in line with danger the faiths with the less numbers would be eradicated... so, sure.. this could be political suicide for people who vote for it.

Answer 6

Please give me your legal reference for syaing the war is illegal? That would be a court ruling not an opinion of some one in the legal profession who agrees with you. The war was approved by Congress and still funded by them so it is legal under U.S. law; declared and troops deployed in accordance with the War Powers Act so what U.S. law has been broken to make it illegal?

Answer 7

I guess i have to ask the question yet again. will you please tell me how it is illegal? no war is ever illegal, if a country wants to engage in war all they have to do is start one.
with that being said we are not doing anything wrong the UN authorized use of force in Iraq in several resolutions so we international approval. the house,and Senate voted for approval also here in the US so we have approval through our government. so how can it be illegal in anyway?

Answer 8

Illegal? What a crock of shiite! There is nothing illegal about it. Buttholes who support Al Qaeda and oppose the troops tell you that it is illegal for propaganda value. Only an idiot would believe it.
Do you believe it?

Answer 9

If this is an illegal war, why does Nancy Pelosi and the Democratically controlled Congress continue to fund it?

Answer 10

Why do you think this is an illegal war? It was sanctioned by a U.N. Security Council resolution (meaning it is legal from the standpoint of international law) and was approved by the U.S. Congress, even Hillary voted in favor of it (meaning legal from the standpoint of U.S. law). Just because you don't like something or believe it to be true doesn't make it so.