How much longer will the American people allow the war in Iraq to go on?

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The claim that the Iraq war has anything to do with terrorist attacks is wearing thin, as we see what happened in Iraq yesterday.(220 Iraqi people killed)

Saddam was a strong opponent of Muslim religious fanaticism, and a barrier to Osama. Now Saddam is history. The latest reason claimed to justify the Bush war is that we have an obligation to set up a democratic state in Iraq. How much longer will the American people buy this? Will Bush need to invent a new justification to keep his war going until he leaves office? The American troops are dying for nothing. How much longer will the American people put up with our men/women dying?

Answer 1

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how can a military vet be so stupid about war? it is a fact of life we aren't always going to be at peace and you and all the other people who are against this war and saying it's bush's war can shove it. you are as bad as the terrorists talking negativly like that about our goverment. you should be ashamed. if all of the men and women who are fighting and dying for our country over there heard what you say everyday about this war they would be deeply hurt and honestly i am as well as a patriotic person. no matter who is president we should back them up like them or not they are the leader of our country by turning your back on him you are doing the same to our country. no wonder why other countries hate the us because our own citizens can't be content with that great thing we have in our country called FREEDOM!!!!!!!!!! that didn't just come for free alot of men and women have died for that.

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Man! You don't know anything. Nothing! First of all Iraq did not do 9-11. The war is illegal and we will lose the war in Iraq. I told you so. ( Or at least I have told others we will lose the war.) We will lose the war just like we lost the war in vietnam. We did't learn our lesson. Shame on USA!!

Answer 2

not much

Answer 3

Saddam, first of all, was a "Muslim religious fanatic"; he didn't oppose it, he encouraged it by killing entire villages of people.
My question to you would be: how many Americans die each and every day on our highways, die due to medical neglect or mistake? About 50,000 die every year on the highways; MILLIONS die due to medical mistakes/neglect.
At the height of the Vietnam War, a soldier was safer in the jungles than on the highway.
Let's not forget how many Americans are killed on the streets and in their own homes by murderers, rapists, robbers. I have never been in Harlem or Watts, by I understand that is the way of life there.
First, clean up your own backyard before you get "righteous" about someone else's.

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life; news

Answer 4

I think that people that are all for Bush are willing to do anything to keep the war going on. Bush wants it to be going on, so all of his moron followers do as well. Maybe when one of their loved ones dies over there then they will want it to stop.

Answer 5

Wars are good there are too many people on this planet. If everyone is healthy we are all going to die due to overpopulation. Is that really what the peace activists want?

Answer 6

If we pull out, and the islamic terrorists attack us on American soil, (like they have said they want to do, and have done, and have said they want to do in the UK, and have done so), will you change your tune and be howling for revenge? And will you remember that you lost your stomach for this fight this time around?

The war against terrorism will go on for a long time - 10, 20 years at least. It won't end until the countries that sponsor it get brought forward out of third world status. Their lives have to be better for them in a peaceful environment, than it is in a wartime one. That means education, commerce, and a strong economy (or at least a stronger one than they have now).

That may happen under their current system of government if we leave them alone. The only problem is that it's never happened before in a totalitarian regime. Despots tend to improve their lives, and line their friends pockets, at the expense of the populace.

The current war may not be the best way to accomplish this goal. But if you've got a better suggestion, everyone is listening.

Answer 7

Spoken like a true democrat.

Answer 8

its not like everyone could just walk out and protest the end of a complicated war..

records were set when people protested the possibility of a US led invasion against iraq.. government went ahead with their plans anyways

several dozen protests and the changes in the house of representatives and senate did not bring our troops (who along with us were lied to) home

ending the war now would just be foolish, we need to re-establish our credibility amongst other nations, muslim or non-muslim, and form strong bonds with other would be allies who could help us against potential threats. we cannot win our fight with "terror" by ourselves

we could bomb every single nation that we are told where "terrorists" exist, but the idea that these people spread would be harder to control and our actions does not exactly do us any favors either, or does anyone really think the children who got a candy bar from our soldiers would grow up to love us?

Answer 9

In case you didn't get it earlier...
... Al Zawahari in his latest video acknowledged his intent to set up a Caliphate in the Middle East
... admitted that they need to replace the terrorists they've lost there.
... confirmed they are present in Iraq.

And also allow me my quote of the day to one of your other great lies:

" "If someone in Congress tried to tell me to abandon our troops or raise taxes, I’d probably tell them to go to hell." But this would spur the encouragers on even more.
....
As a former Green Beret (Special Forces) officer and Vietnam veteran with two sons who are currently Green Beret sergeants, as well as a daughter and son-in-law who have been Christian missionaries in Africa and India...."

Don Bendell, in explaining why he chose not to run for congress: http://www.chieftain.com/editorial/11838…

Who better than Don Bendell would know?

Answer 10

Morons?!?!? What a bunch of hypocrites!!! Terrorism is still all over Iraq. We are trying to stop a religious war going on over there. You arrogant pinkos think you know stuff that you actually don't!!!! You would never know what is going on over there unless YOU were actually there. You do realize that being in the military does involve not caring about dying and sacrificing your life for your fellow soldiers. Why do you think that people join the military? They join to fight and to "destroy the enemies of the United States" which are the terrorists. Did you ever think of that? I haven't been to Iraq but my little cousin is there right now and they are using chemicals that can be closely related to WMDs. My cousin and his squad found about 50 chlorine tanks buried underground for use on our soldiers and other Iraqis and he would probably be dead right now if he didn't have a gas mask which are hard to come by b/c the demoncrats are cutting war funds. Street signs cover the sides of highways promoting terrorism, and TV stations run terrorsim propoghanda 24/7. You arrogant pinkos better know a whole dam lot about the war before you start making up a bunch of bs about it all. Even though I haven't been to Iraq, I still get informed daily about it b/c once a Marine, always a Marine. You think you are doing the right thing, but 90% of military personnel would get p.o.'d at you for what you're saying.

-Cpt. Tim Bates (USMC Ret.)

Answer 11

I know, its all very sad.

Answer 12

So... to prove your point that US presence in Iraq has nothing to do with terrorism... you reference a recent terrorist attack in Iraq?

Has the collective liberal intellect really fallen this far?

Answer 13

So i guess you would have them come home before the job they have so bravely fought,is completed.What about their deaths do you think that they are dying for nothing.Why not ask a soldier what he thinks instead of asking a bunch of adolescent kids.Spend Little more time learning instead of listening to the media.