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Originally Posted by lntellectual  What are everyone's views on the Iraq war? How many of you actually support the war? Sorry if a thread like this was already made.
I support the war effort and I don't think we should pull out now. It's too late to pull out and if we pull out now, then all of the men who died for the effort went for nothing. And we can't just leave right away. We have to finish what we started. How's it going to look when America invades a country, breaks apart it's government, establishes a new one, and then leaves before the country is stable? All that's going to happen IMO, is that another outside group is going to take over and overthrow the established government. Then we would be back to square one. |
Ha. Well buddy, judging from the history of this administration, I don't think the US' image is top priority.
Seriously though, how's it going to look when the US continues an occupation that was started on lies and false pretenses, which has strengthened Al-Queada, destroyed US credibility, and
which has sparked several other terrorist attacks around the world?
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After watching Charlie Wilson's War, I realized how it's indirectly America's fault for where we are right now with in to Iraq. If we hadn't spent the money necessary to educate the children in Iraq, the outside groups wouldn't have been able to come in and brainwash the general population into thinking that America is the bad guy. That's why we have to learn from our mistakes and finish what we have started in Iraq. We can't just leave now.
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Actually, it's pretty much the US' fault where they are (unless by "America's" you mean the civilians).
The war was justified with lies (the whole "It wasn't the administration it was the intelligence" thing was proven to be bullsh.t), and was considered the worst-planned assault in US history. Now the US (and Israel) are globally considered to be the greatest threat to world peace. After what the US has done, the resistance there would have no problem convincing people that the US government is the bad (hell, that doesn't seem to be that far from the truth). Al-Qeada wasn't even originally there before, now they are (though they're only 5% of the insurgent population).
The population wants them out, and many of the insurgents only fight because they want the US out.