should we be in iraq?
912228
Bush needed to appear to be proactive and doing something to avenge the 3000 who died on 9/11. He could have declared war on walmart, called it a righeous holy war, and the ignorant nabobs would have gotten behind THAT too.\n\nIt was face-saving P.R., nothing more. There's no dumber person than the one who says we are in Iraq to contain terrorism, for freedom or over 9/11. Those who say these things don't have a dreaming clue of what the reality of the situation is.\n\nThe Iraqi people rightly want an end to the rampant random slaughter of hundreds of thousands of their fellow countrymen that has ensued in the chaos after the American invasion destroyed social order and infrastructure, without replacing it with anything.
933682
Remember we have a thousand year of history behind us and have survived and co-exsisited. Saddam was installed in power by the Americans. He was financed and armed by the US(to combat Iran). We now have another American puppet in power. Then we paid the price of America's mistakes and today again we are paying the price of America's mistakes with our lives. All we want is America to get out of Iraq and we will solve our own problems. The sectarian violence will not cease unless American's leave our country. They are doing more harm tham good with there presence. Dont they realise, we dont want there "democracy" or way of life. Just let us be. We dont need any help from the Americans. GET OUT OF IRAQ NOW.
361855
Poor Job.\n\nNo, we shouldn't have went into Iraq in the first place.
679715
I'm in favor of getting out of there, but I'd hate to leave the Iraqi's who helped us in a fix like we left the Vietnamese when Nixon pulled us out of there.  I have always been against the war, but I don't want those people to have to pay the price for helping us.\n\nWe had NO business invading Iraq to begin with.  We should have concentrated our energies on finding bin Laden, the real culprit behind 9/11.
404038
I think the U.S. should never have entered Iraq in the first place. The only reason we are there is because Saddam tried to assassinate Bush Sr.It is simply a personal vendetta.
874548
No, and only a complete heartless moron with no honor would think so. We, for whatever reason, right or wrong, have caused too much damage in Iraq to just leave. We MUST clean up our mess.\n\nIf you go to someone's house and make a mess, do you just leave it for them to clean up? You shouldn't!!! It is as easy as that.
857477
I would love to say yes it is. But we can't leave now with the mess Iraq is in. I don't think we should have ever gone over there, we did. We can't leave them with this Chaos,  they have nothing in place to deal with any of this violence.We have to finish what we started. If we leave now, it only makes us look worse than we already look. I think it will be a long time before our troops can come home, unfortunately.
777977
they should ,now that we hve seen wots happening in iraq,
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.
1084037
This is the wisest decision you have taken to yourself, your family and your future. Being in Iraq for so-called search for weapons of mass destruction is nothing other than terrorising the lives of other people who belong to a country, religion, culture etc different to yours. It does not make any complete sense to continue this war.
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.
257171
I knew it was going to be a mess before we went in there. The problem is politics. If we leave now it will strengthen the resolve of terrorists. It's psychological warfare, and unfortunately the weapons used are human lives. Its a no win situation. We have to find the lesser of two evils and run with it. I personally feel we have, but I feel we could be doing more to prepare the Iraqis to take care of their own.
196670
How about sending them to Iraq
822004
of Iraq maybe.  An excellent idea
940564
That sounds good. Let's recall our troops from Iraq and send them in to fight a war that is worth fighting.
1006748
we are in iraq to prevent MORE violence in the us. the bush lied quote is dead. we found wmds just this week in iraq 500 biological weapons grade artillery shells with sari gas and mustard gas but you won't hear about it in the mainstream media. if we leave now as sen. kerry wants the jihaddists will follow us back to the us. you want to fight the jihaddist in iraq or illinios . take your pick and don't be blind by democrats
726502
We could pull out and let them dip into a civil war, or stay there and let our troops endure the war.  We should not have gone there in the first place, and if we felt we had no choice, we shouldn't have bombed them back to the stone age.\n\nAny way you look at it, the Iraqi's lose.