Should We Be In Iraq?

There are many concerns about the war in Iraq...

just wondering what you guys think.

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This post has been edited by BuffaloHELP: Jun 6 2006, 07:27 AM

Well I think NOT and YES! This is a though question and need to bee seen from different perspectives. First of all there was Hussein and he had to be removed in order to prevent killings that occurred under his government! BUT we shouldnt forget that what leads countries in war is something like money or similar (oil). And this is exactly why bush went there - believe me he didnt want to safe those lives, because he should first take care for his own ameican people...but he went there and he did it for oil..IMO he divides Iraq only according to the number of octans that are in the gas in that particular area

So yes something had to be done, but not in that way as it has been by bushy! He is killing innocent people in order to secure his damn oil..

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I think the war in Iraq has been handled badly from the start, in a way that is guaranteed to make everyone in the world angry at America. So far Pres. Bush and his republican party friends have shown that they do not care what anyone thinks, they even seem to go out of their way to make matters worse, to make everyone angrier. Don't listen to what the White House says about the war. They will continue to lie through their teeth in an effort to convince the American public to view the news from Iraq through rose tinted glasses.

In the coming months I think you will see some changes forced on the administration, whether they like it or not. The army is under tremendous pressure, many troops are on their third or fourth tour of duty in Iraq, there just doesn't seem to be the numbers available to keep the troop strength up in Iraq for much longer. Then there are the elections in November, there is a good chance that the elections will have the result of shaking things up.

The whole of congress seems to think that the roof will fall in if America withdraws its troops from Iraq in its present state of civil war, but that assumes that the US presence there has a calming effect.

To be honest i just feel that everyone is trying to make the matter worse. The people who matter, The soldiers who have to fight, Dont say wheather they go to war or not. If Pres. Bush got his hands dirty and tried to calm things down over in iraq it would be better.

I think that the Iraqi people suffered so much from Hussein, now that he is removed, the people is begging to the Americans to return to Hussein.
Did anyone saw the pictures of the prison of abou ghrayb? I mean come on look what the American soldiers did to poor Iraqi people. WHY Bush is against these picture and against everyone who published pictures like these? It's definitely because he did something wrong and he is afraid of the people to find out. HATE HIM!!!

This post has been edited by Hadi: Jun 6 2006, 03:22 PM

To answer your question: No. We should not be in Iraq. The only reason that we are there is oil. There are no weapons of mass destruction. The government has lied to us, several times, about this and other things.

Let's answer this by asking one simple question: did the Iraqis request our aid? The simple answer to that question is no. We are in Iraq for two reasons. The first and most obvious reason is oil. The second is the 'superman complex' of George W. Bush. Saddam has not been in power for what, two years? Three? What has really changed? As soon as we pull out of Iraq some other madman will take his place, and the Iraqis will be right back where they started. The Iraq war is nothing more than political posturing by a lame duck president who needed something to boost his poll scores. I feel bad for our troops over there who have no choice but to fulfill their orders.

When will America stop trying to be the saviour of the world, and start fixing whats wrong in our OWN country? We can spend billions whipping a little democracy ( and our huge war machine) on some other country, while we have people sleeping on the ground just scant feet from the White House. We send millions into these war-torn (by us, in many cases) countries to help them feed themselves and repair all the damage, while we have children starving in our own backyards. I think we need to take care of our own before we try to fix everyone else.

No. Regardless of how Hussein treated people, we weren't supposed to be there because of that. Our nation's leaders blatantly lied to us the people so we'd fight a war for their own private purposes. There was a brief pretense at finding those who gave the disinformation just to get the heat off them but I haven't heard of anyone being found responsible.

Our leaders seem to want control of the middle east, perhaps for the oil. Afghanistan was understandable... Iraq was not, especially considering the lying about WOMD to get Americans to go along with it. And now they're trying to get us after Pakistan.

I am loyal to my country. But like Mark Twain says in "A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court" that doesn't mean loyalty to the leaders. In Connecticut the constitution, he notes, says that if the leaders are hurting the people every person is responsible to stand up if that's what they feel and give their voice against it, even if they're the only ones doing so. And if the rest don't feel that way, it's their responsibility to vote them down. Twain says it's not about the laws or government or leaders, but the people.

Isn't that what America was made to be for? A government for the people, by the people? Isn't it then disloyal to say we should blindly trust our leaders even as they betray the very people they were elected to represent?

The war on Iraq was a



To me it looks like a war on iraq. If it were a war on terror, why did the US bomb the Achmed Al-Zaqaui guy, why didnt they just send a covert ops team in or something, instead they had to kill him and 40 civilians...

The way i see it, it has turned into a war against Iraq, not terror