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War in Iraq. For it or against it?
Saddam is gone, isn't it time the US pull away?
Why is it upto the U.S. to govern Iraq anyways? Why do you think the so called 'terrorists' are still attacking?
12 Answers
- 1 decade agoFavorite Answer
I was against it from the beginning... there were no Iraqis flying those planes on 9/11. We knew from the beginning that it was Bin Laden behind it.
We gave Bin Laden 27 days to flee Afhanistan before we went there with the pretense of looking for him... then we tripled the Troop strength for a War against the Iraqis.
Just think if we had sent all avialable troops to get the man behind 9/11... and not went to Iraq.
We wouldn't be as hated as we are today... we had World support back immediately after 9/11.
But our Greedy Corrupt Politicians allowed a War in Iraq for OIL Control... and now we are hate more than ever before. Vice President Cheney use to be a CEO for Halliburtan ... and look they have the largest Contract in Iraq today.
- 1 decade ago
I am against it. I won't say it has everything to do with the young men and women who are dying for an injustice - because they are. What really burns my *** is that it was all done under false pretenses.
In 2004, I can remember a few people saying they voted for Bush because they would not vote for a Democrat because Slick Willy lied about the Monica Lewinsky scandal. What I have always said was... Clinton never lied about anything that caused the deaths of innocents in Iraq. There is a huge difference between an extramarital affair and a plot to attack another country with no basis for the invasion.
Just my 1/2 cents worth.
Michael
- IndianaHoosierLv 51 decade ago
Hearing about it is one thing, being there is another. Any where you go you have the common man who makes up the majority of the land's people. This is only one person's view, but those was in most part kind to our soldiers, but it really seemed it was a face to get what they want no matter who you was or where you was from, or what side you was on. All in all they just want to be left alone and most certainly the US out.
We're not really welcomed there and for that I think we should pack up and let those duke it out and let someone, anyone take over the mess. Then years (or even decades) later we can try to reestablish relations.
- bikinybanditLv 61 decade ago
At the start, I was for it. Getting rid of Saddam and taking out any terrorist camps was reason enough for me. Now, it is looking too much like a war I watched on TV, as a teenager. That one was called, The Vietnam War. I would say it is time to get out of Dodge. We did what we meant to do, and more bloodshed is not needed.
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- hellyLv 61 decade ago
Against it. As for the US pulling out, though, it's hardly right to leave a country in ruins, when it was the US (and UK) who caused the ruin in the first place.
Only right the US stays to put things right, if that can ever happen. The war should never have started, and I believe it was started illegally. However, there is no going back, and the troops have to stay until some stability can be restored.
- 1 decade ago
War is a useless waste of life. I am against all wars. As for the Iraq war, I feel like we are reliving Vietnam all over again and we will not succeed as we did not succeed in Vietnam. I'm not even sure who or what we are fighting for. If we learn nothing from history, then we are doomed to repeat it. And we are repeating it.
- heraLv 41 decade ago
Yes.
We are now in the middle of a civil war...we have BEEN that way for over 2 years now, and it is beyond time to leave them...but we wont because of OIL...which is what this war has been about from the start.
- 1 decade ago
if it's not time for the US to pull away it's long since time for australia to pull out...
we don't even get why we got sent in the first place...
other than a favor for bush... or being ordered by england =/
- Anonymous1 decade ago
No, I"m not for the war in Iraq, but we are there and it's my beleif that the casualtie we have taken since the democraps got in to power, are all on the democraps head. pelosi et al, are responsibal for this, I dont"t mean the war, I mean theis idiot6ic bickers about funding and troop withdrawel, arn"t they (libs and democraps) smart enough to know that they are only giveing aid and comfort to the enemy???. Get it over with and then raise hell as to who is responsibal.......