Do you think our troops should be in Iraq?

AmusedOne

They should be at home with their families, working, playing, living the american dream... not dying, not getting arms blown off, not committing suicide by the dozens....

They should be home.

a person

They told us that it was a war against terror. If it was we wouldn't have been in Iraq...We wouldnt have sent MORE troops to Afghanistan if this was actually a war against terrorists. This is a war for oil, and that worked out real well with saddam blowing up the oil mines...So now it is just a pointless war and the Bush Adminstration has to look like they actually had a plan this whole time

Dennis R

No, it was all based on lies.

GoldenPinkStar

No.

Steve J

At this point, I'm not sure. But we definitely should not have switched fronts from Tora Bora to Iraq. That was a bad move. Bush and Rumsfeld's greatest folly.

Krissy

I am not sure, I WANT THEM HOME.

what the hell

notyou311

No. The situation is getting worse by the day and our troops will be caught in the middle of a civil war. The no. of terrorists has increased because of our invasion of Iraq which was based on lies. It's time to get out and concentrate on people and places that are a real threat to us.

dukalink6000

No, the reason for going was specious, the timetable was far too optimistic and the on-going catastrophe is a tragedy that can be ended

Rei

Of course not. Iraq is not our soil, so no! North Korea believes we are a threat to them. Do you think they should be here taking down our government?!?!?! Killing innocent lives?!?!?!

CoolGuy555

No way they should have never been!

craigpalmer57

I served in Iraq 2003-2004. I'm torn because I saw living conditions over their, compared to us. I'd like to think I served to help protect people that where tortured and repressed. Whether the media and politicians want to place blame, saying we where lied too about weapons of mass destruction, that or president has an agenda his father didn't finish, oil, stability in the region, winning the war on terror. We could pose questions all day and take sides while people die. I think the real question is how we need to do or best to avoid further collateral damage.

Carl_the_Truth

No.

****_mother

No, you don't want ground troops there when you nuke the **** out of everything flattening it all. Go in Christ

springÛžbeauty

no... they are only there for the wrong reasons. if Iraq started it maybe my viewpoints would be different.

Old Guy

NO;
Afghanistan and The USA would be a good choice, Iraq was Bush's choice before 9/11even happened!

Theresa J

NO!

ROSEY

Our troops should be on the borders of Iraq protecting them from invasion but not in Iraq fighting THERE civil war we didn't let anyone fight ours so why should we interfer with theres.

LeAnne

I really don't know if this is the best policy in fighting terrorism - but I do know we had better fight the Islamic terrorists - if not now, then in the future when they are even better organized and possibly possess the elusive WMDs.

If their tactics of indiscriminate murder and terror brings them any kind of victory - they will continue (and why not? - if they're successful.)

worldinspector

Our troops are there for one reason only -- because a lying, borderline moron draft dodger thought it would be macho to be a "war president" for the 2004 election . . . and it got out of hand, as anyone with half a brain could have predicted.
So to answer your question, no, of course not.
If you don't believe that, then consider a recent Presidential Press Conference, in which a reporter asked, "Mr. President, exactly what did Iraq have to do with 9/11?"
Bush: "Nothing."

JBarleycorn

If the world will be a better place because of it, then yes.

We can definitely lose this war, and as anomalous as it may sound, the major reason we can lose is that so many of us simply do not fathom the answer to the second question - What does losing mean?

It would appear that a great many of us think that losing the war means hanging our heads, bringing the troops home and going on about our business, like post-Vietnam. This is as far from the truth as one can get.

What losing really means is:

We would no longer be the premier country in the world. The attacks will not subside, but rather will steadily increase. Remember, they want us dead, not just quiet. If they had just wanted us quiet, they would not have produced an increasing series of attacks against us, over the past 18 years. The plan was, clearly, for terrorists to attack us until we were neutered and submissive to them.

We would, of course, have no future support from other nations, for fear of reprisals and for the reason that they would see; we are impotent and cannot help them.

They will pick off the other non-Muslim nations, one at a time. It will be increasingly easier for them. They already hold Spain hostage. It doesn't matter whether it was right or wrong for Spain to withdraw its troops from Iraq . Spain did it because the Muslim terrorists bombed their train and told them to withdraw the troops. Anything else they want Spain to do will be done. Spain is finished.

The next will probably be France. Our one hope on France is that they might see the light and realize that if we don't win, they are finished too, in that they can't resist the Muslim terrorists without us. However, it may already be too late for France France is already 20% Muslim and fading fast!
Without our support Great Britain will go too. recently I read that there are more mosques in England than churches.

If we lose the war, our production, income, exports and way of life will all vanish as we know it. After losing, who would trade or deal with us if they were threatened by the Muslims. If we can't stop the Muslim terrorists, how could anyone else?

The radical Muslims fully know what is riding on this war, and therefore are completely committed to winning, at any cost. We better know it too and be likewise committed to winning at any cost.

Why do I go on at such lengths about the results of losing? Simple. Until we recognize the costs of losing, we cannot unite and really put 100% of our thoughts and efforts into winning. And it is going to take that 100% effort to win.

So, how can we lose the war?

Again, the answer is simple. We can lose the war by "imploding." That is, defeating ourselves by refusing to recognize the enemy and their purpose, and really digging in and lending full support to the war effort. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. If we continue to be divided, there is no way that we can win!

Let me give you a few examples of how we simply don't comprehend the life and death seriousness of this situation.

President Bush selects Norman Mineta as Secretary of Transportation. Although all of the terrorist attacks were committed by Muslim men between 17 and 40 years of age, Secretary Mineta refuses to allow profiling. Does that sound like we are taking this thing seriously? This is war!

For the duration, we are going to have to give up some of the civil rights we have become accustomed to. We had better be prepared to lose some of our civil rights temporarily or we will most certainly lose all of them permanently.

And don't worry that it is a slippery slope. We gave up plenty of civil rights during WWII, and immediately restored them after the victory and in fact added many more since then.

Do I blame President Bush or President Clinton before him?

No, I blame us for blithely assuming we can maintain all of our Political Correctness, and all of our civil rights during this conflict and have a clean, lawful, honorable war. None of those words apply to war. Get them out of your head.

Some have gone so far in their criticism of the war and/or the Administration that it almost seems they would literally like to see us lose.
I think some actually do, I hasten to add that this isn't because they are disloyal. It is because they just don't recognize what losing means. Nevertheless, that conduct gives the impression to the enemy that we are divided and weakening. It concerns our friends, and it does great damage to our cause.

Of more recent vintage, the uproar fueled by the politicians and media regarding the treatment of some prisoners of war, perhaps exemplifies best what I am saying. We have recently had an issue, involving the treatment of a few Muslim prisoners of war, by a small group of our military police. These are the type prisoners who just a few months ago were throwing their own people off buildings, cutting off their hands, cutting out their tongues and otherwise murdering their own people just for disagreeing with Saddam Hussein.

And just a few years ago these same type prisoners chemically killed 400,000 of their own people for the same reason. They are also the same type of enemy fighters, who recently were burning Americans, and dragging their charred corpses through the streets of Iraq And still more recently, the same type of enemy that was and is providing videos to all news sources internationally, of the beheading of American prisoners they held.

Compare this with some of our press and politicians, who for several days have thought and talked about nothing else but the "humiliating" of some Muslim prisoners -- not burning them, not dragging their charred corpses through the streets, not beheading them, but "humiliating" them.

Can this be for real?

The politicians and pundits have even talked of impeachment of the Secretary of Defense. If this doesn't show the complete lack of comprehension and understanding of the seriousness of the enemy we are fighting, the life and death struggle we are in and the disastrous results of losing this war, nothing can.

To bring our country to a virtual political standstill over this prisoner issue makes us look like Nero playing his fiddle as Rome burned -- totally oblivious to what is going on in the real world. Neither we, nor any other country, can survive this internal strife. Again I say, this does not mean that some of our politicians or media people are disloyal. It simply means that they are absolutely oblivious to the magnitude of the situation we are in and into which the Muslim terrorists have been pushing us, for many years.
These people are a serious and dangerous liability to the war effort. We must take note of who they are and get them out of office. Remember, the Muslim terrorists stated goal is to kill all infidels! That translates into ALL non-Muslims -- not just in the United State s , but throughout the world. We are the last bastion of defense.

We have been criticized for many years as being 'arrogant.' That charge is valid in at least one respect. We are arrogant in that we believe that we are so good, powerful and smart, that we can win the hearts and minds of all those who attack us, and that with both hands tied behind our back, we can defeat anything bad in the world! We can't!

If we don't recognize this, our nation as we know it will not survive, and no other free country in the world will survive if we are defeated.

And finally, name any Muslim countries throughout the world that allow freedom of speech, freedom of thought, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, equal rights for anyone -- let alone everyone, equal status or any status for women, or that have been productive in one single way that contributes to the good of the world.

This has been a long way of saying that we must be united on this war or we will be equated in the history books to the self-inflicted fall of the Roman Empire . If, that is, the Muslim leaders will allow history books to be written or read.

If we don't win this war right now, keep a close eye on how the Muslims take over France in the next 5 years or less. They will continue to increase the Muslim population of France and continue to encroach little by little, on the established French traditions. The French will be fighting among themselves, over what should or should not be done, which will continue to weaken them and keep them from any united resolve.
Doesn't that sound eerily familiar?

Democracies don't have their freedoms taken away from them by some external military force. Instead, they give their freedoms away, politically correct piece by politically correct piece.

And they are giving those freedoms away to those who have shown, worldwide that they abhor freedom and will not apply it to you or even to themselves, once they are in power.

They have universally shown that when they have taken over, they then start brutally killing each other over who will be the few who control the masses.
What is happening in Iraq is a good example. Will we ever stop hearing from the politically correct about the "peaceful Muslims"?
I close on a hopeful note, by repeating what I said above. If we are united, there is no way that we can lose. I hope now, after the election, the factions in our country will begin to focus on the critical situation we are in, and will unite to save our country. It is your future we are talking about! Do whatever you can to preserve it!
I reiterate:

. A national election is days away.

After reading the above, we all must do this not only for ourselves, but our children, our grandchildren, our country and the world. Whether Democrat or Republican, conservative or liberal and that includes the Politicians and media of our country and the free world!

george g

Yes but not fighting the war for Iraq. Iraqis have to take the lead if they want control of their country & destiny.

kendra reed

HELL NO my man is over there right now seriously there is no reason to be over there, there is no way we are going to change a country of stuck up hard headed ragg heads seriously this is so dumb and i love my man i have 338 days till he comes home and 204 days till mid term leave that is too long especially since he cant see our kid born or be there for the first few months i hate the war there is no reason i think bush is just trying to make the population go down we wernt dragged into iraq we offered to help turn it into a democracy and yet they are still communist

mike b

yes

Maverick

Without a doubt yes! The U.S. waited too long in my opinion. We should have done this the first time we were there in 1991.

Gizmo

Our Troops should be moving into Syria because that is where Saddams WMD's ended up.

coolchess123

well everyone says that bush is an idiot by sending troops and all that. But we must rememer that without us, Hussein would be a powerfull monarch in Iraq, Afgan communits will rise with help of the Soviet Union, and terriorists would keep bombing us, because we would be showing no resistance.

Iraq is a necesity, and oil is a good payday too :D

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