Is the war on iraq a waste? do you agree with it or against it?

Question

Do you think the war on Iraq is a waste of time? do you think its a good idea?

Answer 1

Iraqis are generally very nice people, whereas the Saudis are not.

I think this country is bombing the wrong Arabs.

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So yeah, mouthful and all I feel it was a bad idea.

Answer 2

The invasion of Iraq was a colossal war of waste.  It has wasted lives, wasted resources, wasted opportunities and wasted energy.  Most of the world watched a poorly equipped president (and conniving vice president) lead a scared country into an invasion that the war pigs in the Pentagon and CIA wanted.  America's foreign policy under Mr. Bush is one based on arrogance and ignorance and it has damaged the country's international standing and influence.  This will forever be remembered as Bush's war and five years after the invasion began there is plenty of substantial evidence that this administration hoodwinked the world.  Thank God for the 22nd Amendment!

Answer 3

Many years before 911 ever occurred,the enws media always painted the Muslims as a bunch of religious fanatics h**l bent on converting the world to Islam by force and terrorism while trying to wipe out factions of its own religion.

If what is reported was true it is Islamic fundamentalist who believe  that they are to turn the world to their allah or kill them if they refuse to accept allah as the only one true  god and mohammed as his prophet.It was also these same people who did the 911 attack.

When you fight these people, you are NOT fighting one little group in one little country all wearing one uniform.

You are fighting a group of terrorists whoa re spread out everywhere.

In a Muslim country a girl would never be allowed to show her face in public wear clothes in public like shorts, mini skirts bikinis etc as they do here.They arent allowed to date they are married off to whom the parents choose.if she is raped she is stoned to death.

Thats how life was in Iraq before we invaded it to set up a base of operations to fight these groups of terrorists who are spread out all over the middle east.

There are casualties in war.We either fight till we win this war, or become muslim and pick a denomination of Islam and try to kill everyone else before they kill us while adopting thier lifestyle.

Answer 4

No, I do not think the war in Iraq is a waste.

Is the war in Iraq a waste of whose time?

The Iraqi people? The Americans? The British?

Is asking Polls & Surveys questions in the History category a waste of time?

I will let you answer that one.

Cheers, Oscar. You got my thumbs up.

Answer 5

~Gee, let's think about this one.  

Okay, for starters we have to ignore the history or the region for a couple millenia which, on its own, would or should have convinced anyone with a half a brain of the futility of the exercise.  Of course, the history of Afghanistan militated even more strongly against the invasion but the wisdom of the White House missed that one, too, so the subtleties of Iraq clearly would have been over the head of the Bush.

Alrighty then, we'll go with something more contemporary.  Did Saddam have WMDs?  Why, sure he did.  As Georgie the Younger well knew, his daddy and his 'uncle' Ronnie sent them over.  When our CIA installed puppet in Iran (the Shah - see Operation TP/Ajax, 1953 (hey, we did it in Guatemala (Operation PB/Success, why not Iran)) and SAVAK (organized, trained, financed and assisted by US/CIA) got theirs, we had to find a new buddy in the Middle East.  We sent Saddam all manner of toys to use against Iran.

Problem is, as we wanted, he used all the toys.  That's why we didn't find any when we invaded.  

Oh, Saddam is a BAAAAAAD man, isn't he.  Ah, well, how times change.  Saddam was hand-picked by the CIA, along with five others, to take out Prime Minister Abdul Karim Qassim.  He blew the hit but the Baath party reaped the benefits.  Eventually, CIA did manage to put Saddam on the throne.  Oh, woe is me.  That SOB started to do evil things like build hospitals, schools and roads, he brought Iraqi agriculture into the 20th century, he extended the human rights of his people (well, at least the ones he liked) and he generally enhanced the well-being of his citizens.  But - and it's a big but and his fatal error - he needed money to do all this.  Well, when a Raghead actually demands just compensation for the natural resources (oil) that have been pilfered from his homeland for generations, he's got to go.

Saddam was our boy.  We created him.  We propped him up.  We armed him.  We overlooked the atrocities he was committing because he still danced to our tune.  [That is the American Way, after all.  The US has participated in the overthrow of countless democratically elected governments all across the globe and replaced them with tyrannical despots like the Shah, Saddam, Somoza, Papa Doc, Suharto, Marcos, Diem,  Castillo Armas, Pinochet and on and on and on] (Hold the thumbs down - our body count exceeds the n***s and is confirmed by US government and CIA records if only you bother to look them up.  State department officials have publicly acknowledged that fact already.)   When our puppets get out of line and actually pretend to be rulers of independent nations, we either throw them out of power, kill them or start wars like Angola, Laos, Cambodia, Ghana, Zaire, Hungary and Bolivia, to name a few, to destroy their countries.  h**l, while we were arming Saddam to kill Iranians for us, we were arming Iran to kill Iraqis.  And we were selling weapons to our enemies and drugs to our friends to finance it.  Then we decided to deal with the very people who were holding our hostages in Iran, even while the hostages were being held, to start a war in Afghanistan.  Naturally, we turned on those guys when we didn't need them anymore and the 'freedom fighters' and 'patriots' were recast as 'terrorists'.  

Was the illegal, immoral, unjustified and unjustifiable invasion of Iraq a losing cause?  Of course it was.  That was obvious before it started to anyone who can think.  The history of the region said we would be in the position we are in today.  I said that before the boots hit the sand, it's not hindsight.  When I said it, I was in a minority of 2% and branded a pinko commie traitor b*****d.  Gee, how times change.  Did we have any moral or legal ground to invade?  None whatsoever, although there are any number of our fearless leaders that should be put on trial for crimes against humanity for putting Saddam in power in the first place (starting with Jack Kennedy) and for keeping him there (ending, I guess, with Ronnie Raygun and Georgie the Elder).  

Should we get out?  Absolutely not.  It is our responsibility, obligation and moral duty to stay until we clean up the mess we have created.  The power vacuum we have created in the Middle East demands to be filled.  Saddam was THE stabilizing force in the region.  Without him, the turmoil amongst the Iraqis was inevitable and without his army, the reins that he held on his neighbors have been cut.  When we leave, watch Syria, Iran and the Saudis move on the oil.  Watch what happens to Israel and the Israeli response.  It's our bed.  We made it.  We're stuck sleeping in it for a LONG time now.

But hey, we did the same thing in Afghanistan.  We trained, armed, financed and supported folks like bin Laden and the Taliban while they did our bidding against the Soviets.    Zbigniew Brzezinski bragged about it at the time and "Charlie Wilson's Secret War" is apt to be a box office hit.  Oh, golly gee.  Once again, our pals have turned on us (and with damned good reason) and they're using the arms and training and money we gave them to shoot at us and to bring out skyscrapers down.  And isn't it possible that the cost of gas today might have something to do with the money we cajoled the Saudis into pumping into Afghanistan?  Of course, they recouped that a long time ago.  I wonder how much we're getting from the record poppy crops our buddies the warlords have harvested now that the US military is there to protect the fields.

Why are we surprised?  Isn't what is going on in Iraq and Afghanistan and Pakistan and Iran and North Korea and South America today the logical consequence of our own actions and hubris?  Remember the evil Viet Minh and those devils Ho Chi Minh and Vo Nguyen Giap who led them?  Well, when they were our pals and doing our bidding we called them freedom fighters, patriots and heroes.  When we sold them out at Yalta, Tehran, Tokyo Bay and in 1946, 1954 and 1956, we wondered why they got mad.  The Vietnam War was the direct result of the duplicity of FDR, HST and Ike.  

Iraq and Afghanistan are more of the same.  Who's next?  Iran?  We really haven't paid for what they did to them yet.  North Korea?  Let's not forget what we did to them in '45, '46 and '51.  My guess is Pakistan.  To be able to properly arm Osama and the Taliban, we had to build the bases in Pakistan.  To do that, we had to let Pakistan resume its nuclear program.  Now that Ivan has left the mountains, we're telling Pakistan that they can't really have their bomb and we're telling the guy we put and kept in power that he's gonna be downsized.  It's gonna be fun folks.  Stay tuned, but be careful of your water, power and food supplies.  They are all tremendously easy targets.

Have a nice day.

Edit.  Oh, I hurt sooooooooo bad.  I checked after 10 minutes and only had two thumbs down.  What has happened to patriotism.  News flash, folks.  Everything I said about what Uncle Sam has done to destroy freedom, human rights and personal liberty around the world by supporting the likes of Castelo Branco, putting people like Klaus Barbie on our payroll or guys like Mobutu Sese Seko in power or putting folks like Trujillo and Noriega in power, only to kill them later and replace them with worse, or creating, organizing, funding and assisting human rights organizations like Battalion 316, Battalion 319, SAVAK, the Black Hand and  the Brigada Blanca, is true and confirmed by Uncle Sam's own records.  Isn't it time we stop the madness?     Isn't it time we at least look at what our own government admits that it has done and is doing and hold those in charge responsible?  Are we that stupid?  Are the 60s that dead?  Yeah, probably so.  That's why I'll never live in a large city or walk past a tall building.  The next salvo is already inbound.  It's just a question of when, where and how.  And guess what?  Whatever it is, however it comes, we have earned it well and we deserve it.  Thank you, Bill O'Reilly, Sean Hannity, Pat Robertson, Newt Gingrich, Ronnie Reagan, Jimmy Carter, Jack Kennedy, Ike and the Dulles boys, and the rest of you clowns that have made my life so tenuous and the world that may or may not be left to my grandchildren so questionable.  

Heil, America and kill for peace.   Let's be the first ones on our block to have our kids come home in a box.  Sorry, but your flag decal won't get you into heaven anymore.

Edit:  Sorry, yankee.  You might want to check into the chemical, drug, radiation and bio "experiments" that  Fort Detrick, NIH, DOD, CIA and the Pentagon have run on Americans in their own homes.  HR 15090 is a good place to start.  God help anyone who volunteered for the Hepatitis B Experiment.  The body count and birth defects of the unknowing 'lab rats' reaches scores of thousands.  The numbers are in the declassified documents.  Blatant governmental killing of civilians ebbed after Five Points, but the surreptitious slaughter took off after 1946.  Our boy Saddam's war with Iran?  He got the gas from us and we evened things out by arming Iran at the same time.  Let us not forget who created Al Qaida.   We organized them to do our bidding.  Reading about what Saddam's darling young sons did, I gotta believe they were trained by  Dan Mitrione or at least read the CIA manual on torture that CIA generated and gave to SAVAK and Saddam (and most of the dictators in the banana republics that we created south of the border).  What, you fault them for being able to follow a US training manual?  Before condemning the 'camel jockeys' learn the US role in the whole affair.  We baked the cake.  Enjoy eating it.

TY, J.S.

Answer 6

Strap a bomb to a 14 year old or give an 16 year old a gun it's the same thing.

Answer 7

A waste of lives, a waste of money, it also wasted America's good name.  There never was any justification for it except to put American oil companies in control of Iraq's oil.  The proper term for that is "p****y".  And don't prattle on at me about "supporting the troops" because my son is currently on his second tour over there and I d**n sure support him!

Answer 8

With the surge I think it's just about won, although if the troups go home too early all the progress could be nullified.

I think it's a plus. If a stable, pro-western Iraq emerges, it will have been worth it.

We are engaged in a war, and we're pretty lucky that most of that war has been waged away from home.

9/11 is the only significant act that has harmed Americans directly, although Britain and Spain have seen their damage caused by al Qida.

History will look fondly on president Bush even if he is poorly understood by most today.

Now--let's see how many thumbs down I can earn with my opinion.

Answer 9

well, let's see here;

Saddam waged a ten year war with Iran which  featured several hundred thousand killed and indiscriminate bombing of cities with rockets.

Saddam was building a nuclear reactor till the Israelis bombed it before it could spin up into production

Saddam shares with Adolph Hitler the distinction of the only ruler to ever use poison gas on his own people.

Saddam invaded and conquered Kuwait and only incompetent logistical support kept his army out of the Saudi oil fields ( can you say gas at 10 dollars a gallon?)

His two sons ran a torture for thrills game that would have made a n**i squeamish

Saddam ran the oil for food program as a way to make tens of million for himself and his cronies as his own people starved and died for lack of medicines.

His country wont be used as a base for Al Queda or even worse, state sponsored invasions of the neighbor or development of WMDs.

and you know what? He was hung by his neck until he was dead, and I doubt God had any mercy on his soul.