how safe are americans after iraq invasion?
469173
We are safe because we were never attacked by terrorists we were attacked by our own government.
789775
Yes. They are and will remain highly vulnerable to Islamic attack but in the USA all Ex-Presidents are given state security till life. So. they will never be insecure.
1023807
wow... um i am not really sure i am from the USA ... do you believe in god? do you go to church...do you believe in prayer?   for me if you were in the USA i would tell you to go to the police to get help or go to a lawyer office to get a restraining order... but in Iraq i don't know what you can do.. maybe go to the American embassy to get immunite and ask for their help... hopefully they will ... hope that you get the help that you need for your safety .. also ask for gods help to protect you and your family... good luck.. god bless
1013439
Yes, I am effing weary about you guys dying.  I don't believe that Iraq was the biggest threat prior to 9/11 and that Rumsfeld and Cheney lied to us to make us believe that.  I feel that your life is being put at risk to fight a war that should have never started-we should have stayed in Afghanistan and found bin Laden.  We should have kept you there looking well after Tora Bora.  And I feel that Iraq wouldn't have as many al-Qaeda living within its borders had we not invaded in the first place.  I don't think that we can set a time table, unfortunately, we have created chaos within the country of Iraq, and we have to stay there until we fix our mistakes.  Unfortunately, putting your life and others at risk.
868779
In Iraq nearly every building is susceptible to a car bomb a suicide bomber (any guy standing in line to apply) or a mortar.  Even the Green Zone isn't 100% safe.  And when I worked on Camp Victory in early 2005, a major car bomb exploded near one of the gates and a 230mm rocket exploded 150m from our vehicle staging area...again on a secured military base.  We also had a rocket hit the front of the main PX on the camp...a half kilometer from my cabin.  It killed one soldier and injured 87 others.\n\nAnd hiring an absurd amount of Iraqi's...OK, but you can't make them want to be policemen...same as having them join the army.  Certainly I agree that having Iraqis police and defend their own cities and country is the best of all worlds.  But for many reasons we are not there yet.  And I don't think it is due to a lack of money.
995462
America and our western allies DO NOT HAVE the support or TRUST of the people of Iraq! Our soliders will continue to be killed because we cannot win the hearts, minds, and faith of the people of Iraq. \n\nThe people of Iraq continue to suffer due to our occupation there. Our soliders have killed ( a kill is in the line of duty) and murdered (an unjust taking of a life) hundreds of thier people. Terrorist have done the same. The people of Iraq DO NOT SEE a difference between the Insurgents and our soliders...our being there has caused the death and suffering of many innocent people over there. Without the TRUE support of the people of Iraq America will not win.\n\nIf we kill one "Big Daddy" another one will take his place...this is a fact...Bush and the idiots on "the Hill" don't know sh*#!
1060614
well in iraq the people defending theirtowns are freedom fighters and  us americans are foreign invaders. it all depends on your perspective.\n\nfrom my perspective i see it as us soldiers (kids) being sent off to fight a war that they shouldnt because they have been ordered (forced, either do it or be put in jail) to. the iraqis are just defending their home and most of them that are fighting are probobally fighting because of our presence there.\n\nits a pretty messed up situation, but our leaders (bush) dotn care, they just want iraqi oil.
310590
iraq will destroy america if this continues like it has, we better leave those guys alone
246612
This strikes me as a very misguided question.  Fewer people are killed today in Iraq than there were during Saddam's reign of terror.  His citizens no longer live in fear of him using chemical weapons against them and for the first time ever they were allowed to select a government.  Iraq is certainly not a safe place but calling the situation a mess is just not accurate.
622016
the world will not be a safer place. Other nations need US help for support. Not only in battle, but also for spying and other support. As you know, US forces are all over the globe.
267161
Some of us Americans morn the Iraqi deaths as well as the American. War is bad for living things, we should have never been there in the first place. Our invasion was completely wrong and should have never happened, our leadership made a bad decision and continues to make bad decisions and there is little we can do until the next election.
909865
I will be happier. Definitely. Safer? No. Because of the Bush legacy it will take a long time to show the world that Americans are good people again. Bush's war mongering has caused hatred all over the world and formed a new breed of Anti-American terrorists. Any new president, Republican or Democrat, will have to have unbelievable diplomatic skills to undo what Bush has done.
193571
Iraq is slowly but surely turning into a self governing democracy that will in the near future be capable of defending itself and participating and working with nations worldwide economically and as an ally in the war against terror. the Iraqi people will be free to pursue the freedoms that we here in America have long taken for granted.Iraq does indeed have a bright future ahead and because they do our future here is America is brighter as well.~
890379
Iraq was not like it is now when Saddam was in power. Saddam was a threat to his own people, and those around him, period. World threat? Threat to America? Not by any thinking person's stretch of the imagination. We had to retaliate for 9/11 and a group of brilliant people decided Iraq was the path of least resistance after we topple their tyrant to install a democracy. Wishful thinking at its best, we are starting to see the worst. Things have degraded to their tribal levels split along religious sects. We invaded without understanding the culture and history of the region. Hatred and war are long time bed-partners in the middle-east. Just to keep the excitement growing we can now add extremely twisted, hate filled, religious fundamentalist zealots adding to the killing in the name of Allah.  Baghdad is eerily starting to look like Saigon. We won't need a strategy to get out, we'll need emergency evacuation.
393271
My greatest fear is that this war will suck up so much of our resources, i.e, money, soldiers, aid, ect.  I also fear that others will attack us because we will be so consumed by it.  I think America's time as a superpower is coming to an end. England used to be the greatest country, now they don't have as much.  Another thing I am afraid of is that people will get the wrong idea about democracy.  You can not force it on people who don't want anything to do with it.  That is not what democracy is about.  I don't want the soldiers to be treated like the Vietnam vets.  My husband was in the service and was called a baby killer, in our own town, a couple of years ago.  He didn't even go to Iraq!  There are also POW's who are taking down there flags because they are getting beat up by other Americans.  I am afraid this war will tear this country apart.  Sorry about rambling, but those are my fears.
173560
Well, this American citizen did not believe the invasion was justified before the war began. International law and long-established moral principles do not allow for an invasion of a sovereign nation without a clear threat to one's own security. Our security not only was not threatened by Iraq, but every indication now is that we are less secure than before.\nDisregarding my reasons for initially opposing the war, the developments over the past two years have only increased my opposition. Once we invaded Iraq, we had an obligation to provide security and to help rebuild the economy and infrastructure. Things have certainly not gone well.\nFinally, given that we waged a war that I can't defend, the amount we are in debt because of the war is completely unacceptable. \nBefore the war, we were told the rationale was WMDs. We were told there were enough troops on the ground to provide security. We were told Iraq's oil would pay for most of the war.\nAll of these miscalculations or distortions make it more difficult to support the administration's views on the war.\nI'm male and over 50.
609928
Notice you're only getting answers from people who are from the US...?  All but one who stated what another country's opinion is.  Please disregard the rest.  Now, I was stationed in Germany for about 3 years and I can say that the majority of people that I encountered had a pretty good opinion of American's.  I never really got too much of their opinion of America as a whole.  If it is of any consideration, after the war in Iraq started the Germans actually volunteered some of their troops to guard our posts over there.  Just a little enlightenment and something that the people who say "The whole world hates America after the Iraq War" might want to think about.  The biggest thing that I can mention is when we went to Holland for some training:  The Dutch still look at America as liberators.  So, that's just my opinion as some one who has actually been to other countries, not one who just criticizes my own while I'm safe in it.