4,000 Americans have now lost their lives in Iraq. Has it been worth it?
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Hell yes! Once our soldiers unburied themselves from all the flowers and killed Saddam; Iraq as become a beacon of democracy in the Middle East. With the oil flowing and gas back at $1.75 per war price and our national debt evaporating fast who could think it was a bad idea?
This war has been run horribly , but it is the right thing to do.
This world is a small place with real evil , dictators like him need to be dealt with.
We should hand them a constitution like we did Japan in 1945 . We are backing thugs at the moment.
after all, you said:
This world is a small place with real evil , dictators like him need to be dealt with
We invaded Europe when they had not attacked us,
and we liberated millions
Who is going to liberate Darfur ? France could do that with a small force.
Chuck, I'm with you on all this if and when Iran signs an alliance with N. Korea while Iran then invades Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Norway, Finland, and begins bombing England to bring it to its knees while N. Korea then attacks our Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor and subsequently invades Hong Kong, Malaya, Singapore, the Dutch East Indies, the Philippines.
OK? Because that was WWII and our involvement in it.
Actually, we've never really cared about dictatorship in other countries as long as they were our dictators who were in place to further our interests. Other peoples' freedom and liberation have always taken a back seat to that thought process.
than WW ll threat.
and if we would quit pussyfooting over there and just take over , we could settle it . This current kitty walk may not result in victory .
So we will pull back and see Iran in charge of all that , and then we will stare at their nukes in a few years.
How about to Pakistan, China, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait…oh yea Bush loves those evil dictators…
"The pervasive violence that has wracked Baghdad since the summer of 2003 has killed or injured tens of thousands, and has made random, unpredictable death a fact of Iraqi life. I've lost count of the number of times Iraqis have told me, with biting sarcasm, that it's a little hard to appreciate the benefits of the new education system when schools and schoolbuses are regularly being bombed. They point out, too, that democracy has brought to power leaders who are sectarian partisans or kleptocrats, often both...In many material ways, things are a lot worse than they used to be. Many Iraqis now get less state-supplied electricity and water than they did under Saddam. Those who can afford it use private gas-powered generators, but the price of gas has grown manifold. Inflation is rampant: prices rose 70% last year. And quite apart from the sectarian violence, crime rates have soared."
"2.5 percent of the Iraqi population is dead. They are no longer among us. The average life expectance has dropped from 74 to 59 years. Unemployment is over 70 percent and the country has 1.5 million internal refugees and another 1.5 millions who fled the country since the war – all this in a country with 23 million inhabitants. Over 80% supports the attacks on the occupation forces. Only 2 % of the population sees the Americans as liberators."
The Iraq War (or as I prefer to call it, GW's War) has cost us tens of thousands of American casualties, billions and soon-to-be trillions of dollars, besmirched our national honor among the nations of the world, spread gasoline on Muslim extremism, trampled our constitution and broken our laws, created divisiveness and dissension among our citizens, and violated our national concepts and American traditions of justice and equality.
Our leaders' answer to this is, "So?" What a pathetic and disgusting response.
One choice that could have been put on this poll is:
Would YOU give up YOUR life to be in our current situation today? Would you willingly become one of those 4,000 dead? Is it worth it?
Iraq was our best Buddy... Reagan and Bush Sr. where happier then pigs in shit to give arms to Saddam and didn’t care that he was using chemical weapons on the Iranians…
It’s only when they invaded the Kuwait (Dictatorship) and threatened America’s BFF the Saudis (Dictatorship) that suddenly Saddam became evil…
Hey, You left off "I HATE BUSH" as one of the options. :^D
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"Oh, Bother!" Said Pooh, as he chambered his last round.
I don’t hate Bush. I reserve hate to very few people in life. I feel sorry for Bush. A guy with limited intelligence, who borders on retarded is hand picked by Daddy and his cronies to become President...
It’s got to be horrible existence to come to work everyday and have people who are way smarter than you talking down to you all day, having you sign and say what they want. I feel truly sorry for him.
A national poll conducted recently shows a lower war approval by voters nationally as compared to the SB poll (lumping the top and bottom two SB responses together): 34% vs. 58%. Does this mean SB voters are more hawkish, have more faith in the government, or what?
"Do you approve or disapprove of the way George W. Bush is handling the situation with Iraq?"
Approve Disapprove Unsure
% % %
ALL adults
30 65 5
Republicans
65 30 5
Democrats
6 91 3
Independents
32 64 4
http://www.pollingreport.com/iraq.htm
"Does this mean SB voters are more hawkish, have more faith in the government, or what"
It just means that they're moonbats
"From the horror of 9/11 to the invasion of Iraq; the truth about WMD to the rise of an insurgency; the scandal of Abu Ghraib to the strategy of the surge -- for seven years, FRONTLINE has revealed the defining stories of the war on terror in meticulous detail, and the political dramas that played out at the highest levels of power and influence.
Now, on the fifth anniversary of the Iraq invasion, the full saga unfolds in the two-part FRONTLINE special Bush's War. Veteran FRONTLINE producer Michael Kirk draws on one of the richest archives in broadcast journalism -- more than 40 FRONTLINE reports on Iraq and the war on terror. Combined with fresh reporting and new interviews, Bush's War will be the definitive documentary analysis of one of the most challenging periods in the nation's history."
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/bushswar/
...the Iranians will welcome us with open arms just like the Iraqis have. I wonder how many dead we'll have there three or four years after an invasion.
I believe in the way of life this country allows me to live. I support our troops 110%. I may or may not believe 100% about the reasoning that I have been told led to where we are today. But I do believe that what we started should be finished the right way.
I also believe that if you do not support our troops (weather or not you support the act of war) and if you do not like the way our forefathers wrothe the consttution then for God's sake and my childrens please feel free to get a passport and go any place else and see if you can find anyplace else in the world you would like to live. From my experience, I like it here.tyvm
Don't tell me to go anywhere else in the world. I fucking live here and have a right to express my disgust with our policies. Your comment is not American. Read the Federalist Papers, moron.
Lived through that in the early 70's. Still here and still commenting.
Did the framers of the constitution intend on a country that sees it self as world leader and propts up dictators and other mad men and then when the mad men turn on us, we have to invaded and topple the governments that we supported, all the while we gave support and shelter to those doing the deeds that we know find so vial and repugnent.
Funny, I don't recall our forefathers including pre-emptive warfare with a country that never attacked us in the Constitution. We all support the troops. But their commander in chief is a criminal..
With ONE DAY of Iraq War funding we could have sent 6,883 high school graduates to four fully funded years at public universities.