Why do liberal Americans and liberal Muslims oppose the war in Iraq?
820107
It is not the Liberals that oppose the war in Iraq.  It is the people that use their brains that oppose the war in Iraq.  It is not the war on terror that we should be fighting.  It has weakened the real war on terror and those of us that don't drink the kool aid , don't support a trumped up war.
710106
The libs hope we lose the war on terror, because that will weaken the USA and usher in what they really want  worldwide socialism led by the UN. In the liberal mind, the USA is evil, and has to be weakened so that the UN and Hillary Clinton can rule the world in socialist utopia, led by John F. Kerry diplomacy and cowardice. What they fail to realize is, the enemy jihadist won't stop at a peace accord.
248231
The majority of Americans were against it, therefore it would've been a very unpopular war, look at what's happening today in Iraq.  Americans were 'isolationist' in their thinking before Pearl Harbor.
1117284
I understand your point.  I think it has to do with the fact that people are intensely stuck into categorizing. If a person considers him or herself to be liberal. They will normally take a harsh view on a conservative question that is not asked in a meaningful way. Or the other way, if a liberal question starts off with "why did bush kill our soldiers?" you will get an angry response from the right. That is why I asked the question that you answered. We have always been a society of labels. As far back as this countries founding there were labels on people for their political views or origin. Today it just takes an ever so hateful view and ignorance.
938547
The liberals thrive on pessimissm and hoplessness. If Evil-White-Male-Bush is leading our country to DOOM, then we "need" them to rescue us. After all, America deserved 9/11 for our attitude. America is weak. We should have involved the U.N., despite all those oil kickbacks. The Muslims are really innocent-its the Christian right that are monsters.
1174595
Because america is more concerned with there own people. I was in the army, and i was in Iraq last year. I personally feeel that people are dying on both sides for no reason.
1085350
I personally think only Republican taxes should pay for this war and only Republicans should fight it.\n\nBtw, I'm female but volunteered to be reactivated for the Gulf War. Us liberals just have a higher sense of moral values on what is right and wrong. We have the courage to stand up against things we know are wrong; whereas, Republians just 'fall in line' like robots all chanting the same tune in sequence.
915676
Libs won't like your question. It shoots too big a hole in their original argument (which they refuse to give up) and leaves them seeming to support the continued reign of Saddam over kicking him out.
1042938
They won't stop. They feel it furthers their cause when they kill the infidels, as the american soldiers are called. The people in Iraq killing soldiers are theones who were loyal to Saddam and the ones who have an extreme hatred for the USA. The ones who are loyal to Saddam want things to go back to way they were when they had free run of the country and Saddam was lining their pockets with millions of dollars, the ones who hate the USA are coming in from other countries and fighting because they feel we are against muslims. Funny how we have muslims in the US who are free to practice their religion freely and peacefully. No matter what may happen there will always be people who practice their religion to the extreme edges of what is written.
541398
I support the war because I support freedom and democracy. If the U.S. were to initially retreat from Iraq now, chaos will inevitable consume everyone in a global standard. \n\nBecause terorists are a large group of people who seek to kill those who do not believe in their faith, something should be done NOW instead LATER. Who knows, we could have all faced something worse on 9/11. Unless people want their own bus stops to be bombed, then we should all support the war efforts.\n\nOne last thing; people can support the war but not the government or the president. Though I am a Bush-supporter; this does NOT mean that liberals have to like Bush or accord with him if they support the War on Terror.
378474
Great question, wrong supposition.  They failed to report the war accurately due to political correctness and because they (the press) are whores to the appeasement crowd.\n\nYou must understand the overwhelming vast majority of American journalists are liberals.  A poll taken shows that over 90% of them voted for Al Gore in 2000.  Conservatives (BTW, President Bush is NOT a conservative, he is a moderate) and the military are anathema to liberals.  The war has been reported very inaccurately.  It is not as bad as they would have you believe.  2,500+ dead soldiers is a terrible thing; however, we lost that many on DDay.  \n\nWe won the war, but are losing the peace.
440549
the best way to war against someone is to take their humanity away. huns, japs, gukes, ruskies, pinkos, commies, whateveer the iraqis are...all meant to keep them from being people. the stupid masses would never support this or any war without 'the bad guys'. thats why theres so much anti muslim, arab, middle east hatred being bred in our movies, tv, radio, culture & politics. propaganda man.
814370
They just don't like what President Bush is doing right now with the War on Iraq,   They know that everything is going great with the economy, and that just drives them crazy.  Liberals seem to think more than act.
1109180
I have a confession I'm a Liberal.  When people I know ask me I tell they that I'm a Democrat that is so far on the left wing that I fell off.  It's not that I'm imbarrised I just hate getting into it everytime someone ask me my party.  (LOL)  This is also a question that I ask myself everyday.  I don't want anymore lives lost over this war regardless of the country the person comes from.  I know that no time soon we will be leaving.  Bush has to much pride for that.  He will not back down from this war.  Hell, he can't adimit that he was wrong for prosueing Iraq.  I was against this from the begining.  I don't understand how our goverment and also fellow American got so side track from what we knew went on during 9/11.  I think we should have started with facts first then worry about solving all the detail to 9/11.  The facts were... we knew Osama Bin Laden was responsible for 9/11.  If we are going to war with him how did we end up in Iraq? We had no proof that Saddam Hussin had any thing to do with 9/11 and also we had no proof that Bin Laden was in Iraq.  Why are we there?  We still have a long time before we elect another president.  If the Americans can take the time to think for their selves they will vote for a Democratic president.  If we get one I strongly fill they will bring home the troops.  They probalaly will not bring them home at one time but within 2 yrs.  I think the Iraq war the first time was left unresolved by leaving Hussin president.  I don't think we should go to other countries and over throw their president but we wouldn't have a reason to be there this time.  This time to me is also stupid.  It is like another Vietinam.  We are accomplishing nothing.  I know they have been improvments their but look at all the lives that have been lost.  Most of the people in Iraq don't want us there.  They might want our help but they don't want a war in their country.  Their families are dying and at want cost to them.  So they can go vote for a president (that we had to approve of)  and know have a constuntion ( that we have to approve of).  They are told about all these desissions they are being allowed to make but they are chose from what we are allowing them to chose from.  They are not having a democracy they have a dictatership but instead on Hussin they have Bush.
157452
I think liberals have a valid point when they say that we have alienated some countries over Iraq, but most of those countries weren't really lining up to help us anyway. The prevailing attitude that you see with many liberals is that America's foreign policies are to blame for 9/11 and other terror attacks, and this is simply not true. The terrorists who attacked America on 9/11 were the same terrorist who attacked America several times during the Clinton administration, when Clinton went out of his way to be "the good guy" towards the islamic world. Foreign policy is not to blame. The terrorists simply hate the Israelis, and therefore, we are guilty by association.
249077
ProfessorAdam ... the love is ALWAYS here for well-thought out, reasoned thought - no matter what side of the aisle you reside.\n\nHowever, when you deal with the constant "I hate GWB because of Iraq ... I hate GWB because of the economy ... I hate GWB because of both elections" statements, it wears a little thin. A lot of people - right and left - do not think for themselves and are merely following an idealogy they have the barest of understanding about.\n\nAs a conservative, I know conservatives and liberals want to achieve the same thing - a prosperous and secure America. The only difference is how we get there.
864450
A perfect question...and one about which I have often wondered.  I love this nation but hate the war...that only makes me anti-war, not un- or anti-american!  The modern political climate seems to have forgotten that the right to one's own opinions about our nation's government and policies, and the guaranteed freedom to express those opinions, are the cornerstone of our freedoms as Americans...so by opposing policies we find offensive, we are true Americans through and through!