What is the latest justification for not ending the Iraq war?

Question

We've had all different excuses from the terrorists are going to follow us here if we don't stay there, to we can't leave because of the violence, to we can't leave because the surge is working.

What it the latest reason to continue the Bush Administration's failed policy?

Answer 1

It's not failing. It's barely a war. Lets stay and help them rebuild. (we've already dedicated the money for another year)

Now even Obamas on board

Answer 2

Okay nice and slow for you..... IT ISN'T FINISHED YET!!! Did you get that??????? Have you been there lately???? My husband just got back so I think I am going to go by what he has told me over you if that is okay? Iraqi civilians are stepping up and helping and if we leave there will be a GENOCIDE!!!!

Answer 3

ask Obama..hes starting to waffle on his plan

Answer 4

Oil.  Pure and simple.  The American system of living for the last 94 years has been based almost entirely on oil and its derivatives.  Since Iraq has the second largest supply of oil after Saudi Arabia, we are going to stay and complete our four or more huge military bases to firmly entrench our interests in that region.  Oil has some benefits.  It is one of the easiest ways to convert small energy into big energy.  Also, the profit margin is phenomenal, as BP or exxon or chevron can tell you.  Another often overlooked reason that oil is important to our society today is nitrogen.  American farmers, and farmers of most industrial nations, use a lot of nitrogen. They used 13 times the amount of nitrogen they used the first time they added nitrogen to their crops, but to produce the same results.  Nitrogen is derived from oil.  If our supply of oil runs out, then our supply of nitrogen runs out.  You can imagine the effects a lack of nitrogen would have on a hungry nation such as ourselves.  America is stuck in a rut of buying oil and having no recourse in the matter.  (Consider this:  the oil market accounts for about one sixth of the world's economy.)

Answer 5

WE ARE SOOOOOOOOOOOOO FAR INTO THIS WAR THAT WE CAN NOT FIND OUR WAY OUT.

BUSH DOES NOT WANT TO INCREASE THE UNEMPLOYMENT PERCENTAGE THEREFORE  HE KEEPS THE TROOPS OVER THERE COLLECTING A HEFTY PAY KEEPING THE UNEMPLOYMENT RATE DOWN.HE NEEDS TO GO OUT OF HIS 8 YEAR TERM AS  BEING DEEMED A GOOD ECONOMIST.

Answer 6

It's now "the surge has worked"

".A growing consensus has emerged within the US political establishment, extending to both major parties and the predominant sections of the mass media that the so-called “surge”—the Bush administration’s euphemism for military escalation—has “worked.”

In the end, neither the surge nor the war as a whole have laid the foundations for stability in Iraq. The destruction of a society and the killing, maiming or violent displacement of fully a third of its population can create only continuous turmoil and ultimately a resurgence of mass resistance.

Meanwhile, in the US itself, the hundreds of billions of dollars spent on this war have contributed to the onset of the deepest economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s, creating the conditions for an eruption of mass social struggles."

Answer 7

We have the smartest person in the world handling our global affairs. It is time we sit back and enjoy what we have now.

Answer 8

The one I heard from a marine reservist/college student/lifegard at the local public pool:

If we bomb IRAN half the weapons in Iraq will dissapear.

Of course the real reason is explained by Greenspan... it was always about Oil...  If justice and freedom was the interest we would of been in Rwanda but we ain't got no interests in Rwanda...Now big oil has just taken the contracts for extracting the natural resources of a soverign people for you to drive to work.

They have something we want, it's not our peace and democracy that wins the hearts and minds rather our ability to apply organized violence to the situation the megacorps need to grow.