If the US can't beat the insurgents in Iraq & leaving could mean a regional mid-east civil war how does the US
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Something perhaps they should have thought of BEFORE they invaded. \n\nOh yea and Bush LIED about that. There was no connection between Iraq and al-Qaeda until AFTER we invaded.
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I'm not sure. \n\nIf we stay, we are loosing lives of good people from all nations involved on both sides.If we leave, we are gonna leave a lot of despirate people in a very despirate situation. The people of Iraq should have the right to decide to disagree. If they don't like the environment of civil war, they can leave. The borders of the USA don't seem to be hard to get across so come here! If there was a civil war in the USA, you bet I'll be looking for a new place to live. Oh yea, the oil.  I work in the petroleum industry and I couldn't care less about that damn oil!  I'll go get another job if it would help.  I drive 100-150 miles a day at 65-80 mph on corn. Guess what? We have plenty of corn right here. If it wasn't for the oil, the UN, and the neighboring countries would be dealing with the problems of Iraq. \n\nMarried\nFather of 3\nWhite\nLouisville, KY
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It would become a civil war if any of the ethnic group decided en mass to secede from Iraq, or try and take over. right now, aside from the "insurgent attacks", none of the groups has walked away from the central government.
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Why worry?  No matter when we pull out Iraq will collapse into a civil war.  That is the trend when countrys invade other countrys to "rebuild" them.  So we are the bad guy no matter what.\n\nBecause we are there, terrorists exist in Iraq.  So now that they have settled in Iraq will always be a mess.
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Cannot win war in Iraq, do not be among the decieved that believe the war in Iraq could be worn.\n\nSecondly, the only way we can know about the succes or failure of this war is by the level of insurgent attacks. If insurgency has not been stopped, and insurgents were brought under control, or sileced, this war will continue. In fact it is not Bush's mission to finish this war. Even if the war in Iraq is over, he will still invade another country. This is war without end, we know this, after Iraq, then Iran, then Syria, go on to Qatar, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia. \n\nI know you can ask me who told me all about these. Use your common sense and figure it, it is the mission/ambition of Bush to finish the middle east for the support of Isreal. Everybody know that. Insurgents are flowing from every part of the world, how can you put them under control. If you kill hundred, thousands will stream in, they are uncontrolable. The did not fear death, in fact they are looking for it.\n\nRemember that the number of insurgents now participating in Irag is unestimetable, and that more than the number of US soldiers in Iraq are more than ready to join. Beware!!!
632902
I think it will be like Vietnam where the US won militarily in terms of the number of enemy troops/insurgents that were killed(US lost 58,000 soldiers, Viet Cong lost over 1.5 million) but did not acheive its goal to stop the communist takeover of Vietnam. The US will no doubt kill dozens of insurgents for every soldier it loses in Iraq but public opinion in the States will eventually lead to troop withdrawal and the insurgents may overthrow the undefended and overwhelmed democratic government and install a theocracy like Iran
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By any definition of terrorism, the US is as guilty as the "insurgents" in Iraq.  Under international law, since they have occupied another country, the US is responsible for civilian safety in Iraq, and over 100,000 have died.  There is too much blood on the hands of the US army.
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Badly, very badly.\n\nAll three sides, the Sunnis, Kurds and Shi'ites will fight like dogs, and eventually the United States will not be able to stop it. Those Iraqi troops we trained will also come back to haunt us too. This is a bad situation, and all the weapons in the US arsenal will not be able to solve it.\n\nOn the upside, I think it would have happened one way or the other, contrary to liberal public opinion....sad situation, time for us to leave!
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I opposed going in. However,\n\nIf we leave now, chaos will result. Kurds vs. Shiites vs. Sunnis vs. Al Qaeda. It may be that civil war is inevitable anyway. If the US pulls out before the (hopefully) democratic government of Iraq can raise a reliable, well-trained army to protect itself and the common Joe Iraqi, the troops who have dies really will have died for next to nothing - especially while Saddam is still alive. No, Bush stepped our foot into this. Its too soon to wipe it off.\n\nThe bigger problem is knowing when it will be okay to leave. Our fearless President has failed entirely to define the criteria for "victory." Of course, this leave him (and the US) the option of staying on indefinitely.
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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.
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Us can not attack Iran because they are busy in Iraq and Afganistan.Other thing is, Us army is unable to control small group of insurgents in iraq.How can US handle powerfull military like Iran .
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Whether we stay or pull out the consequences will be terrible.  This is a situation that is not capable of being won.  While we are there they are fighting each other as well as our occupation.  If we leave then they are fighting only each other.  There always will be fighting amongst themselves and it is up to them to resolve it.  We made a grievous error in invading their country but staying is only making it worse.  Our invasion launched a civil war, which probably would have came about sooner or later anyhow.  For us to remain there knowing that it is a no win situation is stupid.  All we're doing is losing more lives, both our soldiers and innocent Iraqis.  What I don't understand is how people condemn the Iraqis as terrorists yet want to remain there to "defend" them.
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Where in the middle east? Too mush is going on there. There is Iraq, which US is occupying.  There is Palestine, which Israel is occupying.  There is Syria and Iran which are aiding all the insurgents. Pls be specific.
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The war is currently to stabilize Iraq,and basically to get a friendly presence in a very unstable and dangerous part of the world. As for why the troops are not home yet - If the US leaves now, Iraq will fall into complete chaos. The problem is 1. stay, and bear the brunt of the attacks by insurgents, or 2. leave, and let the country fall into complete chaos until some powerful warlord eventually unifies and takes over iraq.
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Iraq must split up into three sectarian states --Kurdistan, a Shi'ite province of Iran, and a Sunni landlocked nation.\n\nNo one will die for the geographical "Iraq" as a whole, so the group will keep killing each other until they are separate geopolitical entities.\n\nThe United States should have realized this when then invated in 2003; the US should have invaded and partitioned.  They WERE warned but the warnings were dismissed.\n\nIraq as a united country defending itself does not exist and will not come into existance.
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Because a failure in Iraq is  failure to America and our standing in the world will go down.  If we leave prematurely the entire world will see America doesn't stick it out to the end.  That is a position we as a country cannot have if we expect our allies to stand by us.\n\nBesides, we lucked up and got the moth to the flame effect there.  The terrorist have gone to Iraq to run us out.  They are now there for us to fight and kill, and it is better to fight them there than fight them here.  They have shown they have no intention of leaving us alone.
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No.  we can't just pull out of Iraq before its own government is stable.  Then it would be another Vietnam.  If we just pick up and leave, the country will turn into a police state, much like Somalia did during the Clinton administration.