How do you feel about the war in Iraq?

I feel like we need to stay and help free the people of the alkida (forgive spelling please) they just use people lives so they can kill americans that is insane and the U.S. can't let maniacs like that run-a-muck


and if we leave that shows that the U.S. is weak and our enemys might rise up (china, Russia, other middle eastern countries) and get us.......


man the world is a rough place......and our kids are going to deal with our desions. my english teacher once told me


"Evil trumphs when Good men do nothing"


Pray for our kid not us..................God protect our soldiers.

How do you feel about the war in Iraq?
I think we went inti Iraq for the wrong reason, but now that we are there we need to finish the job. The real threat to the world is coming from Iran. The longer we put off dealing with Iran the more costly it will be.
Reply:You obviously aren't a patriot. There is no way any patriot would happily sacrifice thousands of his countrymen to bring democracy to a country hundreds of miles away.





If Al Qaeda was there all the time, how come we never cared until 9/11? This ridiculous War on Terror is a stupid PR stunt by a mentally ill Texan that has increased terrorism and sacrificed lives.
Reply:The actual term is MOOTW (military operation other than war). We're there helping the Iraqi people and training their police force to control crime. They love us over there, and I'm glad to be serving.
Reply:This is long. I'll answer the issues one by one.





"free the people of the alkida"


From Al-Qaeda I guess. Al-Qaeda is not restricting the freedoms of anyone. Al-Qaeda wasn't ruling Iraq. Al-Qaeda is not ruling anywhere in the world. Iraq was under the rule of Saddam, a nasty greedy dictator (like many others). Half Iraq loved him, half Iraq hated him, same as almost all heads of states including the one in the USA. Saddam was not related to Al-Qaeda and the last thing he wanted was to affect the value of the dollar. He was sitting over huge piles of us$ cash, not gold, not stock, not any other currency. In fact 911, and the changes in foreign policy after that, damaged him a lot due to the fall of the dollar. And, he's gone now. So, there's no reason to free anyone. There wasn't from the beginning, but now there's less than that.





"just use people lives so they can kill americans"


Al-Quaeda is just a concept. Most of the extremist groups looking for attention claim to be affiliated. Including insurgents in Iraq. And a lot of attacks were pinned to Al-Quaeda for political reasons. Just take a look at the murder of Benazir Bhutto. She was a muslim, conservative muslim, closer to the muslim people. On the other side was Pervez Musharraf, a president with sympathies for the western world and a declared enemy of terrorism. Why would Al-Quaeda kill her? Why not let her win the election? She would have taken Pakistan to a position closer to the (alleged) Al-Quaeda's objectives. It doesn't make sense. But it helps to keep the public image of the evil Al-Quaeda alive.


You have to differentiate between a terrorist that goes all the way to your country and blow things up (all saudi arabs by the way) and people killing US soldiers in their own land. I guess that if the chinese army invades the USA and kills your family and friends you're going to get mad at them. Or do you think it would be more appropriate to thank them for freeing you?


Also, you have to ask yourself why a saudi arab would want to kill US citizens. Maybe it's because Saudi Arabia is under the rule of a tyrant king, a good friend of the USA (government) that gets a LOT of support from it (including you money). Why Saddam and not Fahd or Abdullah? The kings of Saudi Arabia has been as bad and worse than Saddam. Religious persecution, massive killings and enriching themselves from their people. What's the difference? Why not free Saudi Arabia?





"the U.S. can't let maniacs like that run-a-muck"


Yes, it can. The USA is not in charge of policing the world. It's not doing it anyway. It's using that as an excuse to enforce its political agenda with the support of its citizens. The US foreign policy does nothing for you and it's costing you more than 50% of your income.





"shows that the U.S. is weak"


A country is as weak as their citizens. The USA is a strong government because it's able to impose its will upon its people with no room for opposition. And with a strong army that can impose its will upon any other army. The day you can board a plane with a gun, a knife, a screwdriver or a nail file, the day you can travel across your country without being stopped at checkpoints, the day you can trade anything with anyone with no embargo regulations or suspicion of money laundering, the day you can eat, smoke or drink whatever the heck you want, that's the day you'll be strong enough to make a strong country. I'm not saying that doing that things makes you strong. I'm saying that the freedom to make the choices for your life makes you strong. If your government tells you what to eat, what to smoke, what to believe, you're weak. Weak citizens under the rule of a strong government make a weak country. All it takes to put you down is to take over the government. Once the government is under control, you all are under control. It's happening right now. Iraq lost its government and the most powerful army in the whole world can't put it under control.





"our enemys might rise up"


Yeah, right. Do you really believe that someone is going to invade the USA? A crazy maniac is going to wake up one day and say "hey, they're weak, let's invade"? It's ridiculous. Just think about China, whose main source of economical bonanza is the USA buying stuff from it. They're sitting over a huge pile of papers saying that the USA is going to pay them back. Do you think it's wise for them to ruin the production machine that's supposed to pay them back? With the USA under China rule, those paper are worth less than toilet paper and probably 80% of China's production loose its customers. Wake up, you're living in a movie from the 60's.





"man the world is a rough place"


It's always been...





"and our kids are going to deal with our desions"


First thing you said that makes sense. You're going to vote soon. Remember this.





"Evil trumphs when Good men do nothing"


Exactly. The good men in the USA are doing nothing. It's a lot easier to swallow it one drop at a time.





"God protect our soldiers"


I hope he does and make the next president withdraw all troops from all places around the world. The soldiers are going to be safe and the people of the USA will focus on solving their real problems.
Reply:I feel stupid for it... but I agree with you... take a writing class would you?...
Reply:omg you mean there is still a war in iraq. i watched cnn today and no metion of iraq just something about hugo chavez talking and complaning
Reply:What war? Oh, you mean the police protection we are providing while a democracy that will never happen drags on? I think it sucks. I do support our troops. Always.
Reply:oh boy bush finally got on answers
Reply:i don't like war aggression generates more aggression.
Reply:I feel like people are very extreme on one side or the other. I think history will judge if the Iraq war was right or not.
Reply:why dont you go over and see how you feel about it and if we should stay and let our guys get killed for no reason. its not worth getting our guys killed for nothing.
Reply:Wow, you really have no idea about the overall picture. It saddens me that the only thing that most Americans know is what Fox news tells you. I'm all for the war but it's got nothing to do with helping the nice Iraqis have freedom or about oil. There are a lot of politics under this. I also don't believe our soldiers should get stop lossed and kept there. We have a lot of illegals who want to live here. "Here's your rifle, see you in 4 years." There is also the fact that we could "win" this war without ever putting an American on the ground. We should have made an example out of Afghanistan and said if you do it again we remove you from the planet, end of discussion. Then we would be missing the fact that it was mostly Saudis on those planes huh? That's another issue totally, imagine that... America is already weak, we're already in debt far above our heads. We have a lot of issues that need fixing. Rome is burning and Nero has stopped fiddling long enough to run for office once more. Until people in this country stop worrying about Britney Spears and football games and start picking up books about politics and the middle east and learning real issues, we will continue our downward spiral.
Reply:The truth is we need to leave asap We went in for one thing and removed the dictator and freed the country. We should have never entered Iraq in the first place and don't tell me that saddam was a threat. Where is your proof? I am glad they are free but it is time for them to police there own country. If they ask for assistance I would support sending troops but if they don't want us in there who are we to say that we should stay. This war must end.
Reply:there is no war, its more like a security operation. Its about time Iraqis took over security
Reply:We should stay. It's making a huge difference in the lives of the people there.
Reply:2 to the chest 1 to the head.


Semper Fidelis.





strictly business
Reply:We should never have gone to begin with......No one there wants freedom... they each want to be Saddam Hussien





We should have used the national guard to patrol our borders, spent a good portion on arming the Kurds, and spent the rest of the money on finding an alternative energy source.


at that point, all of the countries in the middle east could have gone back to being third-world......
Reply:I think we got off to a bad start, and that the president could've done alot more planning when he decided to go through with this. However, we're finally starting to see improvements, and we're keeping pace with al-qaeda. It would be a disaster if we just up and left.
Reply:our soldiers are going there to kill and be kill ..its insane....do you think its ok letting our ppl die