Why should America lose the Iraq War?
924957
AMERICA SHOULD NOT LOSE THE WAR.  WE SHOULD BACK OFF AND LET THEM GO TO IT.  WE ALWAYS KNEW THE PEOPLE IN THAT AREA WERE PRONE TO HOLD A GRUDGE FOREVER.  THEY ARE OF A MIND THAT WE CAUSED ANYTHING BAD THAT HAPPENS TO THEM.  "WE ARE THE BAD GUYS"  IF WE BANDAGE THEIR WOUNDS THE ZEALOTS SAY WE ARE DOING IT WITH INFECTED BANDAGES IN ORDER TO MURDER THEM, ECT.  THE POOR CHILDREN, WOMEN AND MEN WHO HAVE BEEN BRAINWASHED ARE DOOMED TO A WASTED LIFE OF HATRED.
1099886
'fraid so. our brave american 'heros' will be slaughtered & for what? iraq was better off before we went in. saddams crimes are out of our juristiction. iraq had nothing to do with 911 nor did they have wmd. what they did have was oil that they were wanting to sell on the open market. rather than have the competition, its easier to bs the usa into stealing their oil & selling it to ourselves at inflated prices. so what if we sacrifice a few hundred thousand lives, profits are up. theyll probly reinstate the draft.
426752
We were never AT war.  We invaded a destitute country. Relative to Saddam's crimes, why was so little attention paid to the desperate state of the Iraqi infrastructure? What was/is the connection between the country's advanced dilapidation and its capacity to fight a war? Before we stepped foot in Iraq, there was sporadic electricity, water and sewer systems on the fritz, poor nutrition...If America had realized Iraq's level of life, it might have been understood that they could not have let fly with missiles minutes after given the order.  I don't think we won the war because I don't think there was a war.  I live in the USA.
465019
Because 23 million Iraqis are counting on us for their future.  They have voted for democracy - in spite of the threat of death for the 'crime' of voting.  IMO these people have shown more courage than the American people who (despite the fact that they are not sacrificing anything) want to cut and run, and yet again betray the US servicemembers.\n\nWe have two choices:\n\n1) Finish what we are doing.\n2) Abandon 23 million people to massacre and dictatorship.\n\nDo _you_ want to abandon the Iraqi people to the terrorists who send suicide bombers into mosques?\n\nPersonally, I support the war because I have served a tour over there and as a result know that what you are getting on the news is distorted and negative.
151316
Okay I can't speak for Bush and I don't agree with the war but the reason people are dying in iraq is because the american soilders just want to get home alive so they shoot first and ask question second..Its not just iraqis dying over there you know.\nI'm pretty sure most american value lives over oil but then again we don't really control our country big buisness do..
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.
183638
First off, its about securing access to Middle Eastern Oil.\nSome of the people behind this strategy, Richard Pearle, Feith, and Paul Wolfowitz planned this thing out...when the 9/11 attacks came out, Americans were panicked into letting the president have sweeping war powers.  In other words they acted like sheep - acting out of fear.\n\nNext, the Bush Admin drummed up a fake cause to go to war based on a fantasy that Saddam was hiding weapons of mass destruction - these were NEVER found.\nMost of the support for this arguement came from false intelligence, cherry picked to bolster a justification for the invasion and occupation. \n\nNow, with support for the war erroding at home, we are mired down in a fiasco with no exit strategy in a country where sectarian civil war is already in progress...and possibly getting worse.   Its never a good sign when no one is allowed to drive any kind of a car due to martial law. \n\nIn short, this is about oil and the American people have been lied to.  I don't see it ending until we run this administration out of office...or they run out of steam and mark time the rest of the time they are in office.
217824
Sorry, no newspapers or statistics.\n\nThe US destroyed Iraq, made the situation so bad that a civil war is gonna happen, in which some neighbour countries will certainly interfere.\n\nSo -even if I was against the war- YES, I think the US or even better a bigger coalition (UN, including Germany, France and Russia- by the way they're already doing it) should stay for a long time, and reconstruct the country. Anything else would be "we came, we bombed, we staid long enough to make a mess, an then left because we didn't plan anything and the situation was too complicated for us".
52651
The US attacked Iraq because Bush Jr. had to finish his daddy's job. And they will not attack Iran, because the good Amrican people do not want another Vietnam!
59684
No, we are not losing the war. We won't win the hearts and minds of all iraqi's and there will still be problems, but we've removed a genocidal dictator, taken the first steps in liberating Iraq, witnessed elections, played key roles in rebuilding the country's infrastructure, partnered with 27 other nations, and we're doing the right thing. I agree we should pull most of our troops out when it makes sense, but now is not that time.
719397
The USA does not go to war because of a difference in ideology. It is because of economic and defensive strategies. The war in Iraq was as much about protecting oil reserves as it was protecting US citizens from the big bad terrorists. Every country seeks to advance its financial and political interests. The US just has more resources to do it than any other nations. It follows in a long line of historical examples where a nation has gone to war on the pretence of making a better world where the actual aim was betterment of their own nation, for example the crusades, where ultimately it was just a land grab as opposed to enlightening the world to the "joys of christianity". It is, was and always will be a major issue facing the world, as nations jostle for position in the global hierarchy.
1110700
No-one will win or lose, just like no-one is winning or losing in Afghanistan or Iraq. Some americans will believe that they would have won because they killed another hundred thousand people. They will convince themselves of that and blame the liberals and the liberal media when the world turns against them. Just like some of them still think that they actually won in Vietnam, really they did, but the hippies made them lose it all.  Just see the comment above and you'll know the mindset.
1176963
This just proves that one man's "Patriot" or "Freedom Fighter" is another man's "Terrorist" or "Insurgent"... it also shows why America can never defeat the Iraqis because they have an "Ideal" and you can't win a war against an idea...\n\nAmerica should never have gotten into that war for oil.
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.
54857
It's Iraq, and the oil is important, but only to control militaries and sustain ours to enforce the economy. This is one of the "benefits" and or motives of invading Iraq however, we invaded Iraq because Hussein sported the idea of Arab nationalism which would have created a middle eastern european union and challenge our economy and therefore our idea of security. Is this right no, but I can see how some politicians could see this as noble. Also our economy is one of scales. Meaning that the more that is produced the cheaper it is too make a product. In the era of soft money it is feasible and happening that contrators need perpetual war to sustain themselves and hence our economy.
987448
In a war there are only loosers & victims:\n \nThe victims are always the invaded, attacked, brutalized countries and their citizen. But also the citizens of the aggressor (US) fall victim to their warmongering "government", as they loose their sons and daughters, fathers and mothers in a war, which only aids the Bush family and the Cheneys... noone else will benefit from this.\n \nThe Iraq invasion = \nTwo oil men...\nOne oil war...\nRising oil prices..\nGet it  ?!\n \nAny war is a lost cause.... and the Iraq war is costing everybody - APART FROM the Bushs & Cheneys... they are getting richer every minute this senseless murdering of innocent people continues. Wonder, when Moron will send HIS daughters off to kill babies and women "to protect the US" .... "fight to protect the US: geez, there's a stupid statement, if I ever heard one.
983745
At this point, just leaving Iraq right now with the situation it's in is a recipe for disaster. If you think it's bad now, just imagine what it'll be like without us. On the other hand, it's more of a catch-22 than anything. If we keep staying in Iraq, insurgents will keep killing soldiers. If we leave, however, everything we've done will be for nothing. The closest thing we can do that would be considered winning in my opinion is to have a functioning government, an army that can hold it's own, and basically get Iraq back on it's feet. After that, then we should leave. If there is *no* way we can win the war without anything like divine intervention, then we might as well leave.