Why does the US support sectarian and ethnic cleansing in Iraq, which is being done by Iraqi security forces?
491782
The butchery is being carried out by insurgents dressed up in stolen military outfits, not US-supported forces (as far as we know at this point).
778917
Because he invaded Iran , the enemy of the US, so he was supported by the US, Britain and other European countries even when he was gassing his own population.\nThe US supplied anthrax and military intelligence and helicopters, the europeans supplied materials for chemical weapons, the British supplied training for his army and navy.\nThere is a notorious photo of Donald Rumsfeld shaking hands with Saddam in 1983 at the height of his power.
1035036
The Iraq government has the last say in it. They suffered more of his regime then we Americans have so it's really under their jurisdiction to do what they may with him.
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.
910354
I hear so many stories I no longer know what to believe. \nWMD\n\nOIL\n\nFree people from a dictator.\n\nThe one thing I don't understand is why our government would want to remove a Sunni dominated government that kept the Shiites of Iran in check. Now there will be a Shiite dominated government in Iraq that will be more cooperative with the Shiites of Iran and if you look at a world map you will see that a Sunni dominated Iraq acted as  a buffer zone between Iran and Saudi Arabia which is the only Arab country friendly to the US. When the Shiites take control of Iraq, they will set their eyes on Saudi Arabia. You can see from the map that Iraq has a very long border with Saudi Arabia.  That is the one aspect that to me makes the least sense...
165832
They have stopped the mass murders.They have ended the United Nations oil for food program that was for the most part really really nice extortion.Most importantly the iraqis now have freedom to vote for their own government.Freedom is usually expensive and paid for in blood.It is just as pricless as the lives lost in securing it.
533403
The Iraqi people don't want the US there. The US is well overdue to come home. The soldiers are just doing their job, granted. But there is a distinct line between  a false liberation and an illegal occupation.
696030
I suspect that this information will be hard to find.  If anybody began breaking out Iraqi civilian deaths by who they were killed by - the anti-war crowd would have to explain why they want to remove the people who are protecting the Iraqi civilians from terrorists and mass murderers.
372709
I am US military stationed in Iraq right now also.  I don't think we came over here for the right reasons, but I think what we are doing for these people is righteous.  I get to go "outside the wire" quite a bit, and being a job that isn't really liked by the insurgents..ie they want to kill me bad, many of these people are happy to have us here.  To have lifted a tyrant out of power and giving them a chance to set up a democratic system of government for themselves.  Slowly but surely the Iraqi military and police are taking over our job, it is a slow process, but it is working.  I am glad to be a part of an operation that liberates a country and lets them choose their freedoms and laws.
739407
No, the Iraqi people no longer want American or any other countries soldiers there.  We cannot force a true Democracy, especially when we do not have one ourselves.  People want to live with "their own kind".  That does not mean they do not want to interact politically.  \n\nWe are killing a maiming our own young people because G. Bush refuses to correct his mistake in going into Iraq.  There were other ways to get rid of Saddam Hussein without ruining Iraq.\n\nThe Iraqi people did not attack us, it was the Saudi Arabians.  We did not go in and take them out.\n\nYou also cannot police the whole world.
991842
What is happening now is what will happen when we leave.  There is no real democracy in Iraq, democracy is a heck of a lot more than votes.  It is a collection of shared social and political values put into a formal construct.  Iraqis do not have the values, the experience, and the sharing that would produce democracy.  Sectarian strife will continue, intensify when we leave, and the only thing that will keep Muslim extremists from taking over will be a situation much like the one we ruined, rightly or wrongly, by invading.
796837
Bush went to war in Iraq illegally probably thinking that he will have an easy task of taming us and looting our oil. Suprise suprise we resisted and very few oil tankers have managed to get through. So he has resorted to mass murder of Iraqi's and very conviniently blaming this on insurgents to dupe the world. He encourages the shias to masacre the sunnis who are deemed Sadam supporters. Notice very few times are American soldiers killed during these bombings,its mostly sunnis. What has not got into Bush's thick head,is that by supporting shias he is strenthening Iran's powerhold in this country. Over and above the people that Bush has killed, he is laying the ground work for genicide of the sunnis. Bush and his hench men should be triad for his war crimes against humanity and world peace. WE CAN NOT AND WILL NOT ALLOW THIS TO CONTINUE AT ANY COST.
1158290
The USA supported or created every tyrant in the world in the past 40 years, from Osama and Saddam to every South American warlord. They made a point of teaching them to fight dirty against America's enemies and now they are reaping the malcontent they sowed.
434041
You are so far off the mark that even though I am against having our military in Iraq, it would be better for my side if you didn't express an opinion.\n\nReally.\n\nAnyway, the short answer is that Iraqis aren't attacking Americans.  Many of the insurgency are fighters from various other countries including Syria and Iran, as well as Palestinians.
687984
They are defending private profit for multinational oil and infraestructure corporations, by removing the Saddam Hussein regime, which became an enemy of the US once he decided to nationalize Iraq's oil fields in 1990.\nNevermind the fact that the US supports dictatorships in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan, or that during the 1980's, while the Kurds were being gassed, the US armed and supported Hussein, people still don't realize that the "defend democracy" argument is bullshit.\n\n\nMan, I really hate you people. Please don't prove my point! Smarten up!
410809
Maybe it's because they murder anyone who tries to help them.  I don't know what Bush was thinking when he sent our people over there to liberate that bunch of bloodthirsty ingrates, but I do know that whatever the reason was, it wasn't worth the life of one American soldier much less the nearly 3,000 who have died so far.  We should have left the Iraqis to Saddam.  They deserve him.
227101
The United States military does not target civilians intentionally. Thats what the terrorist do! And yes there was terrorists there before we took Iraq. To be an "Insurgent" you must be a member of a political party. What political party do the so called "Insurgents" belong to? Answer, none! The terrorist hide behind the innocent! If you cant figure that out, your in need of an EDUCATION DEVOID OF LIBERALISM! Would I send my son there? If he wanted to go then I would support him. I can't force him to do anything. He will have to make that choice on his own.