Do you think that the US should pull out of Iraq and call it a loss or do you think we should keep fighting?

luv2bake

This is coming from a mom of an Airman. The TV news stations don't tell us everything. They can't, just as the president can't either. The terrorist watch our tv's! My son believes we have reasons for our "invation" of their lands over seas. That if we knew what the president knows we'd chose to send troops over as he did. We are democrats and want our troops home, who doesn't? I want my son & his friends to be safe. But that comes with a price...these ppl who joined our military are paying the price for our continued "freedom". We are all still very lucky to have what we do in America. We have this by defending potintial dangers such as terrorism. If we pull out now the terrorist may come to us...again. The old saying...keep your friends close but your enemies closer! WE have several thousand injured over seas but we only hear of the fatalities. These members of our military are our heros. We must not forsake their willingness to go abroad and fight so the wars are not fought on American soil. It's so easy for us, as the citizens of a great nation, to complain about our children, husbands, fathers, mothers, etc being sent off to a foreign land to fight what seems to be a never ending battle against terrorism. But the simple truth of the matter is that bringing them home will NOT solve anything. I don't care for Bush at all, not a fan, but I will trust that he has our nations best intentions at heart. He would not send our troops over seas if he didn't feel the need was so great that it would take the lives of our young and saving thousands of lives times infinity. The terrorist are unmoral barbarians! They could easily bring that war to our home land! I'd prefer it stay OVER seas! It is our duty as citizens to stand behind our troops and the one who sends them where ever they must be sent. We do NOT have all the info they have to make our decision in favor of or against it. So we must trust the ones the majority of America voted into office. I look forward to a FRESH minds view with the next presidency election. We all must vote very delicately this time. This is merely my opinion...hope this explains one citizens view who did NOT vote for Bush!

Tropango

Keep fighting

Those that want us to lose are not intrested in protecting the troops, they want to save their party!
The surge is already showing results, and their getting scared, so they're trying to slow bleed our troops!

patriot07

keep fighting. never give up!

ARCHANGEL

the whole strategy was absent for this war we rushed in there with bad intel and no planning, we need to rebuild what we destroyed, its our responsabilty, if we pull out too soon it will create a huge power vacuum and it will be a successful terrorist state, if we stay there fighting we will be worn down to nothing destroying our own economy by reducing the value of the US dollar who wants to invest in a loser, there is another way but all the neo-cons and the wallstreet machine are too proud & continue the attitude of tough love parenting towards these poorer nations of govts. we installed to est. favorable market prices

Paully S

We need to resolve the Irag issue by formulating a consise plan for withdrawl, and a timeline to achieve those ends. Unfortuneately, Politicians in the U.S. historically, can't do that. 20 years in Nam. It's time to take politicians out of Government, and draft good buisiness people to run the government on four year tours. Put bill Gates in as president, have him do for us what he's done for Microsoft, we there. THINK ABOUT IT!!!!!!! They'll draft you in a minute, why not Bill Gates??????

NONAME

I'm part of a military family with a brother in Iraq right now. There's nothing more than our desire for him to come home. We support him, but not this stupid war of personal vengeance for somebodys father's failures.

Guerrero de Sangre

The only reason that i see the us fight wars is to get more money; not necesarily for the people, but the huge corporation that exploits the workers that live in those countries.
Your taking about the US fighting terrorism, the US is the real terrorist, fighting a war were inocent kids, women, and elderly man are dying!!!!!!! Would you like your family to be humilliated, your mom to get raped by some soldiers and your siblings to be killed? Put your self the shoes of an iraqui!!! Would you just forget about what soldiers did to your family or you stand up and fight for the liberation of your people?
The US uses terrorism in it's homeland, with the facist groups KKK, the minuteman, and also the government spying on every american; through the telephone service, on the internet(checking everyone's emails), violating our right of personal privacy.
The government doesn't care about you or me, the only thing they care about is on making more money. F*** the system!!!!! Stop letting corporate news tell you lies!!!!!

kilts_and_kimonos

We need to get all of our troops out of there. It's nothing more than a civil war over there. If they want to kill each other, fine. Let them. We have no place over there- and I say this as a Marine Corps wife whose husband is over there right now.
You have to understand that most people that are over there aren't there because they want to fight a war or kill people. Most of them are there for reasons like money for an education, a steady pay check to support a family back here in the states. They're sacrificing a lot having to be away from their families for a year or more at a time.
I don't know any family member that would ever want their loved one to be over there, or where you get that sort of statement from. My husband has been gone for only a month, and I've been wishing he was home with me and our baby since the second I watched him step on that bus.
If you think that supporting the troops means supporting the war, you're dead wrong. I support the troop, I support my husband, I'm proud of him, I love him and I never stop thinking about him, but I don't support the war.
Iraq was never ours to win or lose. We were after a small group of people, and yet we're now all over the friggin' country. Our sights became clouded not long after we got there and began to help them fight their civil war instead of just going after Al-Qaida. We have no buisness in their civil war. BRING MY BABY HOME!

tony w

The best thing the Americans could do is to implement the plan put forward by the Iraq Study Group for a phased withdrawal from Iraq while making the Iraqi govt more accountable and responsible for the undertakings of its own country. A phased withdrawal would allow the US to leave Iraq while still being able to salvage some kind of self respect.There are many ways that US involvement in Iraq can be seen as one big f#ck up, but at the same time if they can leave Iraq with a fully functioning govt that is able to manage its own affairs they can say that they at least accomplished that.
To answer your other question, the US govt can protect itself from terrorism to a large extent by moving back from the sheriff of the world position that it seems to think that it has now. By being constructive and not destructive in the international arena and striving to find answers and resolutions to things like the genocide in Darfur rather than talking up military actions against Iran and Syria, it could move from a position of arrogance and misguided righteousness to the position of fighting the good fight and doing good things on the international stage that could not only help protect it from terrorism but also help restore the goodwill toward itself that many countries have lost since 9/11

ferguson_mark@sbcglobal.net

I don't know if I would call it a loss but the main people who would lose are the iraqis because the wars between the shia/sunnis would go on but yes we should leave now. We can't help those people and we don't need to be there. If they are going to fight a cival war they are going to fight it. Besides we're doing more harm than good just by being there.

Bob

End the Vietnam in the desert and watch Israel call the insurgents back home - defeating the mighty US army.

wise

leave and lose or remain and lose dont matter they lose any way you see you can win a war and not the battle and you can lost war and win the battle so you see you always lose in this situation!

JAMES

If americans keep fighting terrorists this way , it would produce more new terrorists. It would become american's unstoppeble bussness.

coragryph

I think the US should pull out of Iraq and call it a win.

We went there to depose Saddam and stop him from using or developing WMDs. We did. "Mission Accomplished".

And we can protect our country from terrorism a lot better with our troops well rested and on-call here, rather than acting as babysitters and attempting to police an ongoing civil war.

new_friends_gr

We should not have gone into Iraq to begin with. I think we should call it a loss and bring all the troops home. Otherwise, we'll be in there for years and years. The war will go on and on for a long time with no end in sight.

NONAME

Pull out.

Now.

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