Why does everyone think that the War in Iraq has been a success?

Question

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGAibec9JsA&feature=related

Answer 1

Those that served there know the truth.  We saw it first hand, not brainwashed by the media.

Answer 2

Yes, I-busted, everyone who disagrees with you is a traitor. Interesting mental world you live in.

'Everyone' doesn't support this illegal, disasterous war.  Even in the US, only about 15% of the people still think the war was and is a good idea.  In the US, that same percentage of people still believe the world is flat, or that people who come to a different perspective are traitors. Hardly 'everyone.'  Btw, that vet did OWN O'Reilly.

Answer 3

HOW MANY times since 9/11 has there been an Al Q attack on US SOIL ????????????/

HOW ABOUT DIVERTING Al Q fighters away from the US to Iraq to where they are losing?

How about the fact the surge worked shows it is a success,

Are you another one of these traitors who buys the dems line, you would rather the US loses the war on terror because you hate bush, are you another one of these people ???

Answer 4

I think it was wrong.  No matter if it is a success or failure, it won't change that it was wrong.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson, who served as the chief prosecutor of the major n**i war criminals, called starting a war without cause the "supreme war crime" because all other war crimes flow from it.

Under the United Nations Charter, which is a binding international treaty ratified by the United States, it is illegal to attack another nation except: 1) when authorized by the Security Council; or 2) when necessary for self-defense and then only for as long as necessary to get the matter to the Security Council.

The Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441 that found Iraq in material breach of prior resolutions and warned of "severe consequences" if Iraq didn't conform. But that resolution also explicitly stated that the Security Council remained seized of the issue and the United States assured the other members that Resolution 1441 did not authorize it to attack Iraq; the U.S. would have to return to the Security Council for another resolution before it could attack Iraq. In early 2003, the United States did return to the Security Council with a resolution authorizing an attack on Iraq. When it became clear that the proposed resolution could not muster a majority, the United States withdrew the resolution and attacked Iraq anyway. There is no crime more serious than illegally starting a war.

Answer 5

Few people think that.  Most people are trying to figure out the best way to extricate ourselves from this expensive, deadly, unnecessary mess that we should never have gotten into to begin with.  

Answer 6

You got me!

And I'm getting tired of some of the people who served there claiming to speak for all of them in saying this war was a success.

My brother thought that this war was a terrible mistake before we began it.  He has seen the miserable failure, the way the Iraqi people's situations became worse, not better, for quite a while.  He is serving in his second deployment to Iraq, and though conditions have improved slightly, I can't imagine him ever calling this war a success.  Why is my brother's voice considered to be less equal than those who agree with this administration?

Answer 7

Everyone doesn't.  Most people now consider it a failure from the beginning.  Those who consider it a victory can only point to the ouster of Hussein and a lessening body count over the last year.  They cannot point to finding WMD's.  They cannot guarantee that Iraq will be a democracy in the future.  They cannot guarantee that Iraq will have a relationship with us that will help in the oil crisis.  The only way they can guarantee continuing lessening of the civil war there is to maintain our troops at the current level indefinitely.