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The War in Iraq
Do you support it? What should we change about it? Are we benifiting at all or is it wasted lives? Discuss anything about it, but lets try not to get too political.
Personally I think it is completely useless, but what do you guys think? |
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You need to provide:
a) more information for readers to respond to b) some backup for your position c) a much more focused topic for discussion otherwise, it's not really a CT thread. |
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I agree with devo. Also, an 'indifferent/other' option in the poll could/would also be appreciated by many, I'm sure, since there's plenty of people out there who aren't completely one way or the other.
I personally find myself as a Democrat more often than not, though I dislike greatly the negative connotation that goes along with it. I, however, actually think that we "should" be in Iraq. Before the n00bs lunge at me, let me say that much of Iraq, especially in and around Baghdad, is still in lots of turmoil. Maybe it wasn't our place to enter in the first place, I choose to abstain my opinion on that matter for now, but regardless, we went in there with a mission and that mission is clearly not accomplished yet. Yes, the Iraqi people are "free", but there is still countless acts of terrorism occuring there--the government isn't stable, and many Sunni and Shiite (sp.?) still hate each other with a passion. This country isn't going to fix itself in a pretty way regardless of what happens, but we can't just let all of the hard work that's been put into freeing and stabilizing this country go to waste. Also, the Iraqis may not be pulling their own weight, either, since part of our mission was /is to effectively train the/an Iraqi military so they can enforce law, peace and order in its own country. Last I heard, we've been trying to accomplish this, but it's clearly not working yet. XP Here's your start. I've got more opinions, but I has homework to do. |
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I'm going to use a common argument. September 11, 2001. 4 planes went down due to terrorism. Thousands died. This unified a nation. But now, our politicians want to pull away 6 years of work. As it stands, this war has us divided. Much like Vietnam. It makes no sense as to WHY anyone would want to stop this. i understand that people think it is a total waste of lives. But look at what we've done. We have destroyed the former government of Iraq. Now we rebuild it in a way that they could benefit.
Let me put it in a way that most people would understand. I'll be using MAJOR sarcasm. Pull the troops out. Let the terrorist do as they please. Let them come here so we can have ANOTHER 9/11. |
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I don't completely believe that everything that Bush is doing is right but he does have information that citizens like us do not have. Not too long ago, we jested at a member from the army who worked as intelligence. We laughed at his arguments because he wasn't able to reveal it. Sometimes we have to trust what a leader does because he has information that we don't have.
It's hard to have an intelligent discussion on a topic like this where we are given very little information. We do know what has happened based on what the media has told us and the media could mean a lot of things. We receive information from the newspapers, television, and even the conspiracy theorists; but how much of this information is true? So as my belief on the Iraq war is that no one is getting the information they need to help make a right decision. ~Tsugomaru |
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Our stay over in iraq serves a purpose we are getting rid of important terrorist leaders and organizations that lead a very evident dangerous threat to the world. I wouldn't call this much of a "war" in this present time although the seriousness of death makes it real. I think of the war in Iraq as being policed, portraying americans as the officers that are trying to bring balance. I strongly disagree with any conspiracy theorists who say that we attacked ourselves for selfish reasons. America will persevere and we are making a difference no matter how much it is.
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Yes, we had a slow start. Yes, it's been painful for alot of people, including me.
But something had to be done. I think we did the right thing. We are helping rebuid a country thats been at war with itself for a long time. We are helping eliminate a threat that puts the entire world in danger. So yes, I support the war 100%. All I have to say. |
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*waves at Kilik* Nice. I feel that way a lot, but I just don't feel like I have the huevos sometimes to just come right out and say it. At least your first paragraph. I'd be sarcastic anyways, if it suited my purpose. In all seriousness, though, if anything we NEEDED to get rid of Hussein. In the midst of the Red Scare, we put him into power in order to keep Communist influences out of the Middle East...a somewhat noble effort, I guess...but ultimately proving really stupid. -.-; At least he's gone, but we still have the rest of our/his mess to clean up yet in his wake...
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A terrorist organization based in afghanistan, sent people all of whom were egyptian and saudi arabian to attack the united states...are you seeing "iraq" in there anywhere? Hussein's government viewed Al-Qaeda as zelous idiots who were incapable of running their own organization. Al-Qaeda viewed Hussein's government as western lapdogs who were almost as bad as America. No link has ever been shown that conclusively connects them except for hostility and rude dismissals of the others' organization. "The invasion of Iraq is because of 9/11" is frankly, complete nonsense. "9/11 was used as an incredibly flimsy excuse to carry out a war that the Bush administration had been planning out months before 9/11 even happened, and after 9/11 multiple documents and memos and affadavits of orders have come to light revealing that the Bush administration -demanded- that intelligence specialists "find a link with Iraq"" is not only not nonsense, but carries with it a shocking amount of evidence. As for "Helping rebuild" Iraq: Cleaning up your own mess isn't laudable. We expect six year olds to clean up their own mess as a matter of course, we don't praise them for doing it, we punish them for not doing it. Forcing a western style representative democracy on nations that are still highly tribal and partisan is not just a bad idea, it's a -horrible- idea and simply demonstrates the complete hubris of the United States that its way is the best way, and serves primarily to highlight the exact reasons why these terrorist organizations take umbridge with American foreign policy. Does anyone else find the concept of a 231 year old country telling the nation from whence came all of humanity millenia earlier how they are supposed to act more than a little hilarious? |
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Alright, lets try this again.
First off, even though the Iraq War has nothing to do with 9/11.. what happened to Osama? We switched most of our troops to trying to find the man who devised the plan to attack our country, so I already see a flaw with this war. But I DO support the fact that we did go in there to look for WMDs, but we didn't find anything. Thats what we went in there to do, and I don't think we're doing that anymore. Also, I had no problem with going after Saddam, after all he did commit a crime against humanity.. attempted genocide on the Kurds. But once again, what about Osama? So far I do, in fact, support the war but we caught saddam on December 13, 2003, yet it is 2007, so why are we still there? Simple, to force democracy on them, and devonin said it perfectly... But fine, Bush was determined, and we got an election in 2005, and that didn't seem to go so well. So obviously they don't want it, why didn't we leave? So around 2006 what were doing what in Iraq? Besides getting bombed on a daily basis? Well, Iraq went to hell is what, fat load of good were doing there huh? There was pretty much nothing but death in 2006 ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_in_Iraq ). And the same for 2007 thus far http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_in_Iraq I'm still new to CT but I hope I made enough of a point to why I am against the war. |
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Ok, my take. This isn't a war, it's an occupation which is encountering organized and deeply entrenched guerrilla fighters, representing a variety of religious, national, and cultural interests including those of Iranian government and known terrorist groups. Zarqawi was killed not long ago, for instance. He represents a non-iraqi interest, but thankfully in a perverse sort of way the active militants of Iraq are still mostly of Iraqi interest. The US created a power vacuum. If we left now Shiite Iraqi clerics would likely end up creating a new government, not democratic in nature. That is if the Iranians didn't step in as apparently they promised to do in such an instance. In either case the Sunni muslims of the region would likely suffer tremendous violence against them. The Kurds, although armed to the teeth and experienced fighters, would probably have a hard time in their inevitable attempt to establish an independent Kurdistan. One more thing. When the American military presence leaves Iraq, so too will the people actually doing all the important work; contracted mercenaries. If it was just the American military leaving it wouldn't be that big a deal, but since PMC's; at least the legally sanctioned variety; are to my knowledge not allowed under international law to operate without fulfilling special conditions, Kurds especially will suffer a dramatic loss in military power. It would probably still be sound to withdraw at this point, all things considered, but these days there's likely no way to do anything without dramatic losses. There were plenty of opportunities to prevent where we ended up today, even after the invasion. We could have actually allowed international rebuilding to occur instead of restricting rebuilders to Americans. That would likely have alleviated certain tensions or at least spread the weight of the tensions along a broader base. Unfortunately, whatever is decided from this point on will almost inevitably be remembered as a wrong decision because it will have clear and dramatic costs. |
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I think it's silly to try to quantify your support for something so complicated at all, you can only qualify it. Or at least, to quantify it would remove some of its significance. If someone says "I support the war 97.83 percent", I'm going to ask what the exception(s) are that constitute the 2.17% of non-support. Why not just skip that?
Incidentally, 100% is a value that can easily be expressed qualitatively. If you want to say "I support the war completely except for the the retarded actions of the demented few", then just say it. Drop the "completely" and be prepared to answer follow up questions, but yeah. Saying you support 100% of anything though will likely carry implicit meaning that's unintended if what you are talking about is complicated to any extent. |
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You guys are thinking too hard. We are here for one reason and one reason only. To get rid of all the terrorist organizations and liberate the middle east.
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The problem is that if that's our intent, our actions are hardly getting us closer to actualizing it. I'm not sure why the military destruction of the larger portion of Middle Eastern government's is synonymous with liberation, let alone a good thing. Could you explain that for me please?
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I'll let Dick Cheney do all my talking for me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I Mind you, this was 8 years before Iraqi Invasion. We went to war on false pretenses. We did not go to war to free the Iraq people, we went to war because Saddam Hussein was a threat to our national security, was harboring terrorists, and had weapons of mass destruction. None of which where ever proven true. It was only after Saddam lost his power that we started the campaign "Operation Iraqi Freedom", which was to set up democracy in Iraq...which we've tried, and it has failed miserably for the past 5 years. I mean, it's not like this is the first time the United States has ever invaded a country under false pretenses. The Mexican-American war was initiated because President Polk, a Southerner, wanted to annex Texas, which was then Mexican territory, so that he could install another Slave state tipping congress in favor of slavery. War profiteering is not new either. The escalation of the Vietnam conflict was based on a a nonexistent event. The War in Iraq was based on nonexistent "evidence." And don't forget, we are still fighting in Afghanistan...you know, the place that actually had terrorists? Let's not forget the dozens, upon dozens of innocent Iraqis that are dying everyday in Iraq's current civil war...which we started. Saddam was a evil man and a ruthless dictator, but at least he was able to keep some kind of order among the tribes. I'm sorry to say that I sympathize with the "terrorists" (the new "red scare"), who are actually "nationalists" and tired of the Western occupation and exploitation of their land. The United States' interest in the middle east is not democracy, but profit. Kind of like how we overthrew the democratically elected government of Guatemala in favor of a militaristic dictator. Why did we do this? Because the United Fruit Company "owned" a majority of the land in Guatemala, exploited the poor indigenousness people of Guatemala, and did not pay taxes on any of it's exports. The democratic government sought to take back the land, which was RIGHTFULLY THEIRS, and give it back to the people, who needed the land to live. The United States declared Guatemala a communist nation and invaded. If your are too dense to absorb any of this information, I feel sorry for you, but history will recognize this war and this administration as a plague on the United States. I am sure of it. ps. War on Terror? HAHAHAHA, f*ck the United States and starting it's stupid idealogical wars like the War on Drugs...or the War on Obesity. We'll never win. Your tax dollars at work. pps. Also, who does the government work for? The United States people. It was our founding fathers' intention to give the power of the government to the people (democracy...huuuuuuur). Yes, I know we aren't a democracy, we are a Republic, but that does not mean the elected officials of our government should be able to do whatever they want. The President is not our elected king. The people of the United States should always question the authority. It's the ultimate check and balance. |
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