What most people think about what Us have done to IRAQ?
412719
The War was not "Legal", if any war could be justified in Law. Saddam was an Evil Dictator, but there are plenty of those in the World, some of the Allied to the USA (Hello Saudi Arabia!) There were no WMD's, but Loads of Oil, and no one seemed to have a clue what to do After we got rid of old Saddam. I think the Western powers did all they could to keep civilian casualties to a minimum, but I also believe that the USA and Britain went to war to secure a strategic resource, and for no other reason. 9/1 had nothing to do with Iraq, and that is a given. I think depending on the outcome History will judge the war as a naked show of aggression against a foreign power, with good or bad results. We will see.
835416
Well, I can tell you from my experiance that I thought we where making a difference. But I can also tell you I have friends I served with that think we are not. So the answers here will deffinately be as varied as the political parties we have in our country. Democracy is something that Iraq has never had. EVER! So there has been alot of problems. Theres Bath party members (That party was banned) Causing trouble. Religious differences, causing trouble. And a large and I mean very large segment of the population that do want to be free, go to work and just raise there families. The Kurds in the northern part of the country have had zero problem with all this and are doing very well. Whats the long term prognosis? I Don't know, I wish I had a crystal ball and could tell you and everyone for that matter. I believe in what we tried to do, and certainly feel it was the best for them, us, and everybody else in the world. I was in neighborhoods where everyone shook your hand and smiled, and they where all friendly. Two blocks away someone set up an IED, and people watched them do it, and nobody said a word to us. Theres alot of faces in Iraq, too many to be honest. But we are trying, and probably only time will tell. I'm being optimistic, but there will be others that are not.\n\nYour right Katie, they certainly do, it always made my day brighter.
1156101
I think you have a grasp on the situation in Iraq, we do have no business there in the first place and in all wars innocents are killed. Americans for the most part have no idea what war does to a country and its people because we have had none here since 1860. The death, the destruction that we have caused Iraq in the name of democracy is just wrong. I know that Saddam was not a  cool dude but we cannot and should not try to right every wrong through out the world. It just isn't possible.
751527
Arcane are you  crazy?  Their are a lot more modernized middle eastern countries that Iraq.  I have been to a couple different countries and I saw nothing that even Iraq.  You need to know what you are talking about before you start saying stuff like that.  One other thing I want to tell you about.  If the Iraqis didn't want us there all they had to do is run us out,  but they are going through what we did  in our civil war, Losing life's, homes, family and what not they know that it is a necessary evil but most of them are ready for a change.  There have been more business open up in the last year than any other year in their history.  Soon as they can show that their military is able and willing we will be out but no sooner.  It would be a disgrace to the US and its people if we left now and let total hell rain down upon them.
779921
Yes, absolutely. I saw one report that the world didn't blame the Americans for anything done by Bush in his first term because they dildn't know what he was about. But when they reelected him, knowing what he was about, they became complicit in his policies. So yes by the majority voting for Bush in 2004, you could say the American people are partly to blame for the debacle in Iraq.
44214
You have to remember that a large minority (I'd guess 35-45%) were against the war from the very beginning, an equal percentage will believe and follow our president regardless of what he says or does. The people in the middle were basically fooled by varying lies, like Saddam and Bin Laden were helping one another, Iraq was behind 9/11, Saddam and the WMD's, and so they also went along with the war.\n\nIn the end it doesn't matter what the American people wanted, I can't think of an example where a President asked Congress to declare war and they didn't. \n\nAs far as our troops coming home, speaking for myself of course, as someone who was against the War from the beginning, I don't want to just pull out and leave the Iraqi people to fend for themselves. What I do want is a plan for pulling out, a plan for Iraqi self-government, and some kind of realistic timetable. None of these has been provided by our government, and I doubt will anytime soon.
211623
If you make a mistake, do you clean it up or do you let it be?\n\nWe created Iraq by giving him military support durning the Iraq-Iran war. \nWe also created Iran through giving a dictator our support to opress his people. \n\nWe are responsible for Saddam's military appetite and the Islamic government taking power in Iran. \n\nWe made a mess and we need to clean it up.\n\nCountry girl you are right, We were attacked by radical Islam on 9/11 and we are fighting radical Islam in Iraq. Yes they are connected!!!
1015323
I wonder how many dead US soldiers you would have thought were 'acceptable' before we pulled out of WWII?  We could just mow Iraq down and turn it into a potato field (this was suggested with Germany after WWII).\n\nInflamatory questions such as this do not really get to the heart of the debate.
103347
I think it's kind of gone into a bad light. Although our punishment of bombing Afghanistan fit the crime (in my opinion), as time goes on people do forget what we were trying to accomplish there. And the war in Iraq (which I do not support nor condemn) is taking precedence over what our true cause was.
18449
A majority of Americans now feel that there is no exit strategy for the Iraq war.  Many Americans, politicians and leaders felt that going to war, based on the facts at the time, was appropriate.  In retrospect, we realize we were wrong. Way wrong.  And lied to.
895556
Aaron-iraq had nothing to do w/ 9/11. bush said that himself.\n\nwhat did they do?\nwell, 9/11, wait that wasnt true, wmds, wait that wasnt true either...(even though they did find a barn filled w/ a few hundred pounds of expolsives and ammo, but it only made the 10th page of the CT post)\n\nwell i guess you can argue oil, saddam(even though there are many worse dictators who get no attention)\n\nor that it was supposedly an easy takeover.
1156810
There were no WMDs, there were no terrorists in Iraq.  There are NOW.  The gas was less than a dollar a gallon, there was more electricity, the oil exports were higher, they had jobs.  \nThe biggest deal to me however is that this nation, for no good reason, invaded and overthrew a legitimate government for no good reason.  We have had 2500 die.  How many Iraqi's have died?  No one knows!  Who were they bothering before we invaded?  Why are they branded terrorists?  They feel they are defending their country.  How many of us wouldn't do the same things they are?  Hell no they are no better off.
994644
your question isn't very well put so i don't know exactly what you mean. but we went to iraq to help those people living under sadam who was horrible to them.
675370
it was much better indeed in many ways.i dont deny the opression and tourtures that took place then,but who respected himself wasnt touched at all.there was at least security,ethics,a government anyone can complain with.now nothing,you may be picked from your home for nothing,tourtured in a savage way never practiced anywhere in the world,holes will be made in your body by electrical drills,then you are thrown in a sewage dump after you die.\ni wonder that most of those who give their openions are not iraqies,ask the iraqies what they are suffering from.those who say (i have been in iraq,i have seen,i talked to a fraind,etc),dont reflect the truth,cause  either they havent gone deep in to what is going on,or they some of those benefited from what is going on there.how can the iraqies be happier with only 4 houres of electricity a day,with ni petrol,with such an increasing poverity,with 100 people slaughtered in baghdad only,with 1090 women widowed ,500 children orphaned every day.be rational.where and when in the hell did occupation forces took care of a country and its people.do you think usa spent more than 400 billions and 2400 of its youth plus the thousands injured and crippled ,just to remove saddam and give the iraqies democracy.if you belive it,you are naive,i am sorry.mind you ,i hate saddam and his regime to the bone,but,now it is much worse.
497219
I think that the military could be of better use protecting our own borders, Iraq was a mistake from the beginning and we need to admit that mistake and bring the people home.
974553
This was a massive plunder operation under the guise of patriotism misplaced.  It is otherwise known as the big lie.  Iraq was ugly for many, but peaceful.  Now Iraq is a violent shambles,directly due to the intervention of GW Bush.  If there were no oil there, do you think we would be there?  Not a chance.
1076872
Let Iraq deal with "their" problems ? It is problems the US of A have created, for goodness sake !! Before the US invasion the Iraqi people were much better off.... they might have been ruled by a dictator... but - hey - so is the US, but the US is worse off: they are ruled by a BRAIN-DEAD dictator, who must be a direct descendent of Nero.\n \nBefore the invasion, the Iraqi people had food, medical care, and the children safe streets to play in. Now they live in constant fear of being massacred by cold blooded murderers, who accuse their horrid actions with "fear for their own life". \n \nThe US needed to GET OUT 3 years ago, but since they HAD to invade, attack and brutalize, allowing their own history to repeat itself, they have to get out NOW... not tomorrow, not next month, not in 2007... NOW, before their trained murderers can cause more dispicible massacres.. The US couldn't run a piss-up in a brewery  and thus need to let Europe and Asia take care of rebuilding Iraq... and while they are at it: send the bill to BUSH.\n \nAs far as the US are concerned, military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.\n \nEnough of the US caused blood-shed !!!