Comments on: Why We Should Not Pull Out Of Iraq

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 21:07:24 +0000

Paul, God bless you and all of our troops for doing what most of us couldnâ€™t even fathom. But remember you fight for the basic right to join in on any conversation. Whether or not we fought in this war has no bearing on whether or not we can voice our opinions. I agree with you they will follow us home. I donâ€™t agree with why we are there. We can’t leave and it makes me angry. You were sent there with your life on the line for bullshit reasons. You should be angrier than I am. Our fight was in Afghanistan where we could have won and punished those that deserved it. Now your comrades fall because of bogus decisions made by our government.
Again I thank you for your service and dedication and hope your re-introduction to civilian life brings you peace and prosperity.

By: Kenny

Kenny — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 20:52:56 +0000

Now I donâ€™t believe in every conspiracy theory but those of you who choose to believe what our government has told us probably still believe Oswald was the only shooter in the Kennedy assassination. Come on now isn’t it strange that a meeting of the top executives for the companies that were housed in the trade center were called away to an emergency meeting on that particular 9/11 day to Washington or that the towers were at the lowest occupancy in years. I cannot bring myself to believe that we would blow up the towers ourselves but you at least have to question the facts. After the towers fell our government got to tighten every single control over our constitutional rights. Who benefited from that tragedy (not Osama Bin Laden he lives in a cave now and has brought shame to his family)? It was the powers that be. They were able to sell a war that was in every way a deceptive and unwarranted attack on a sovereign nation. Saddam was a tyrant but he kept his people in line. Look at them now, no control and mass confusion. Our fault? Yes! I donâ€™t see us over in Africa where military controlled nations are killing hundreds of thousands of people. Why do we not get involved there were the obvious scope of atrocities far out way Saddams treatment of his own people? Why because we have nothing to gain. In Iraq on the other hand reconstruction companies and oil companies can receive non-bid jobs resulting in hundreds of billions of dollars in profits. Who benefits? Cheney for one and the top 1% of our country. Not all of us, my gas prices have risen steadily, almost a trillion dollars of our tax money wasted and pumped into the American war machine. Profits again for government agencies and weapons manufacturers all in bed with the current administration. I only ask that you take the rose color glasses off and look at our country for what it really is. Basically a good group of people led astray by corrupt self-interested individuals. Leave GWB out of it he is a simpleton figure head/puppet for corporate America. Let me ask you this if our reason for staying in Iraq is to make sure we restore security and calm and once we accomplish this we can leave then why would extremist/terrorist support our case for staying by bombing innocent people? Wouldnâ€™t it be in there best interest to give off the illusion that we won and brought security to the country giving the current Iraqi Government reasons to ask for an immediate pull out. Or at least some ammunition for proving security can be maintained by the Iraqi forces themselves therefore speeding up our withdrawal? All we have heard lately was the surge has worked and we have made strong gains in security. Now as the Iraqis want a timeline and refuse to sign a new agreement bombs are going off two, three at a time. Hmm who benefits? We do we can now say look there is still a major problem here. I am a flag waiving country loving American. What kills me is that our country no longer looks like the good guys, feels like the good guys or acts like the good guys. 9/11 gave us a chance to go in either of two directions, high road or low road and we chose the low road by capitalizing on the fears and anger of a nation to misguide, misrepresent and out right fool a public into a never-ending war! This country stands for truth, justice, democracy and the protection of those who cannot protect themselves. The last 8 years has weakened the very constitution for which we have fought and died for and I am tired of being called non-patriotic because I still believe in our constitution and what it stands for. Its people like me that epitomize patriotism. America stands only for capitalism and greed if we also donâ€™t stand for truth, justice and freedom! Suspensions of the very checks and balances that govern our nation have been grossly misused leaving a “communistic” taste in my mouth. Lets hope a new leader will restore the basic principals of our great nation and re-focus our efforts to thwart terrorism to include not only American forces but a world coalition with equal vigor and benefit for us all.

By: d.cheney

d.cheney — Sat, 17 May 2008 23:15:22 +0000

I haven’t served in the military, but I would like to exercise my freedom of speech if it is at all possible? My relatives have fought to preserve our rights so i think that i may be entitled to engage in this conversation.

I see what I believe is a lot of confusion. I see the whole 9/11 – terrorist – iraq relationship stated. That whole connection and speech from Powell seemed very “forced” and much of the WMD or Brutal Dictator reasons were shown to be false or questionable. I don’t think we will ever achieve our objective in Iraq. Yeah we took Saddam out but the Puppet government we are trying to install will not cut us a deal with oil when we are gone…which is (i believe) why the powers that be want to stay. That said I don’t think it will work. They resistance will just wait us out. We will leave and then the puppet gov will collapse or an uprising will be stifled. But giving them peace and freedom is really a pipe dream. We cant just install a democracy, cross our fingers in hope some sort of domino effect occurs within the middle east. Also, the terrorist attacked the world trade center and pentagon for a reason. It isn’t because they have to kill every infidel. It has too do with capitalism and our foreign policies.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 01 May 2007 20:25:14 +0000

Have any of you ever served in the military? Until you do then you don’t have a voice in this discussion. All of us that served volunteered some of us more than once. we’ll see when they come here after we cut and run how safe you feel. we took the battle to their turf, we run home and they will follow us guaranteed. all hell will break loose and we will lose any credibilty us americans have left. 6-7 dollars per gallon of gas will change your mind on how important it is to secure the middle east. wake up and get real.

By: jack for iraq

jack for iraq — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:20:48 +0000

ive also noticed that there are alot of teens like me, just 14 and 13 that have more sense than those 40 and 50 and 60 year old democrats that want to set a time limit for wars. when you think about it, having a time limit for a war is ridiculous. told by a 14 year old.

By: jack for iraq

jack for iraq — Wed, 25 Apr 2007 03:17:22 +0000

we should not pull out of iraq. the basis for entering iraq may have been wrong but if Hussein had continued his reign of genecide and torture, terrorism surely would have developed. i agree with sean and ryan, those guys have my views pretty much down pat. if the people want to pull out of iraq and not support our troops who risk their lives daily for the sake of peace then they have a sick twisted minds. at least have some respect for them, even if they arent you”best buddies”

By: kanna-zaria

kanna-zaria — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 23:13:24 +0000

i think we should stay in iraq too because we are making progress and i agree that the stupid media cant give us anything but the bad and we have spent like$350 billion on this war but alot of that was spent on new schools and hospitals and libaries and stuff like that to help the iraqi people and every day something happenes in irag like a suicied bomb a helicopter got shoot down and the media spends half it time talking about that i think that its old news and i have to say that what the hell is wrong w/ america wanting to pull out if we do the iraqi govent ment is still pretty shakey and same w/ the military so fi we pull out now it like askinf for hell to pat later on down the road and i cant see why’d we want to put up w/ that if we dont have to if we can do it noe it just dont make sence i KNOW i have very stong opinons even if i am only 13 i still have a lot to say (i feel like m writing my social papper again)

By: crystal

crystal — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 13:31:55 +0000

hi i’m crystal and i’m 13 and I strongly believe that if we pull out the war in Iraq the Iraqis will come back at us 10 times harder then they have in 9/11. This is why i dont want to pull out the war in Iraq.
Thank You

By: David

David — Fri, 23 Feb 2007 04:14:12 +0000

FIrst of all Amanda I totally agree with you that the media doesn’t publish everything that goes on in the world. You can’t blame this on Americans though saying that we like depressing news, but you can blame it on the left wing communists that control the mainstream media. If you are looking for a somewhat good and intelligent news station look to fox. The liberals would like nothing else to see America fail and that is why you can see all the one-sided news thats out there. People like Emily believe all that conspiracy crap and convince others of nothings. What you need to realize on this topic is that the ists don’t like democracy. Thats why they attadked us and will continue to attack us and that is exactly why we must fight back and not give in. I totally agree with Justin in saying that if we pull out the ings will continue because the insurgents would target the new democracy that has just been set up there. To pull out now would be a terrible mistake and most of the people of Iraq realize that. I don’t know about Emily and others like her, but I think those videos of how happy the people were when we toppled Saddams statue was a perfect example of how Iraqis feel about us.

Stay strong Willie dont let those democrats get to you.

By: Amanda

Amanda — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 03:04:49 +0000

okay i am sixteen and have been a military brat my whole life. FIRST off ya’ll dont get all the info they just give us the bad cause that is what AMERICA want. we care more about the bad news then the good news. seriously though the news DOES NOT give us the full story. Trust me i know. FIRST off the wsituation in iraq has NOTHING to do with 9/11. and yes we are doing something about 9/11 my dad just got back from afganastand jan. 27th so yeah. and you hear alot from ALL branches of military the truth. The army fights out in the field, the air force gives them there wepons, and build them stuff so that they can be saved like bombs and all. with out the air force there would be no ARMY

By: Vicki Frei

Vicki Frei — Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:39:24 +0000

I think it’s self-evident that the country would have been far more “behind the war” had we gone to that war immediately after 9-11. Leaving airhead conspiracy theories out of it, I think the probable reason we did NOT go to war right after 9-11 was a combination of shock, disbelief, lack of concrete information as to who was where (for bombing and killing, of course, with the most effect and the least “fallout”), and a generalized inability of the petaybes (Anne McCaffrey shorthand for “powers that be”, backhandedly) to know what to do when and to (or with) whom (meaning I think Bush and his cronies couldn’t find their butts with both hands and flashlights…. not then, not now….)

I find myself saying to myself, “Okay, so pull out of there wholesale, and LET THEM go to civil war”. And then I back up and think that a civil war even in one ME country is likely to conflagrate horrendously. Do I want most of southern Europe caught up in a conflict they probably don’t deserve? Do I want our country and its allies (few and far between as they really are) to have to re-enter at a huge disadvantage an area which has so often proved intransigent (um….. boy THAT’s an understatement)?

Emotion says “Get the HELL OUT NOW”. Reason says we just can’t do that immediately. Either option leaves logic being sick in the street….

“One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.”
-Plato

The new kvetch in town….

By: aSh

aSh — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 07:54:08 +0000

I totally agree with Ryan… He basically has stated everything I’ve been thinking about all of this, Well said…

By: Ryan Paul

Ryan Paul — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 01:19:18 +0000

First of all, if you really believe the US government was responsible for 9/11, you spend way too much time on these conspiracy theory websites. Do you have any idea how many people would be needed to set up 9/11. I do not think that 9/11 was the most elaborate hoax evey made, way too large, with way too many people involved in our government.
Anyway back to Iraq. The terrorists are the ones who attacked America and like Brian in MA stated, history shows that if you attack America we will strike back, for example Pearl Harbor. Congress instantly voted to go to war with Japan then later Germany. The country was all for it just as people were after 9/11. People look back now and would not want to go to war, but think back to the attacks from these terrorists and I am pretty sure most people wanted someone to pay for this act of cowardness. We did not start the war the terrorists brought it to us. Granted Hussein never had WMDs which was the basis for invasion, he was still undoubtedly a supporter of terrorism and murdered his own people. He was a terrorist in his own country comminting terrorism on his people. Now there are two emerging groups in Iraq, one major one being the radical islamists and jihadists that are surely now in Iraq. Radical Islam calls for anyone not Islamic to be destroyed and it has been known that Muslims want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth. Kind of sounds like Nazism to me, and just like the Nazis, the jihadists or terrorists or whatever you prefer, would probably not stop with just one country, but move to Europe eventually heading to the West.
We need to stop the radical islam movement and we need somewhere other than America to fight that war. And now we have our focal point for the war, Iraq. We cannot pull out now and let the terrorists reorganize and rearm. With the threat of North Korea and Iran making nuclear weapons it brings the high possibility of terrorists to obtain nuclear weapons. We need to keep fighting in Iraq and the possibility of a democratic Iraq is still possible. If that is the case then America has somewhere to station troops and fight the terrorists in the Middle East. It also more importantly, gives the Iraqi people freedom and self government, which is being worked on now. The terrorists will become stronger if we pull out and like I mentioned before, will give them more time to obtain nuclear weapons. If America pulls out, those bastards will keep fighting no matter what and will most likely attack our home land once again, but even bigger, when it will be even more risky and dangerous to go back into the middle east and fight once more. I am not saying war is good and am very thankful for America’s and other allied troops fighting for us, but so far, even though I do not like it, we have lost around 2500 troops. Think about the WTC victims and how many unarmed civilians we lost there. We lost more people in the attacks then we have from the war thus far. It is worth it to keep fighting and now with the Democrats gaining control of the house it would not be a surprise to see a timetable for withdrawing troops to come about. A timetable for eveyone to see, this includes the terrorists and other radical groups. They will then know when America will pull out of Iraq in which will cause many militant groups to pour into Iraq and ruin the country even more with even bloodier consequences. We have already started the war in Iraq and cannot turn back.

By: Ashley

Ashley — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:40:43 +0000

I feel that we shouldnt pull our troops out because if we do we will cause more problems. We have started something and I think we need to finish it. If we just pull out we will have another person like Sadam and it will go beck to normal. What do you think?

By: Ashley l

Ashley l — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 18:40:01 +0000

By: Justin Gardner

Justin Gardner — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 05:40:52 +0000

I feel sorry for you Emily because if there’s anybody who needs to wake up, I think you’ll find her staring back at you in the mirror.

By: Emily Rotolico

Emily Rotolico — Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:25:57 +0000

Wake up and smell the coffee. Terrorism exists because our country helped to create it. 9/11 was orchestrated by our own government-GW is the the puppet for those behind it. In repsonse to Sean, the purpose of the invasion of Iraq was for our elected gov’t officials personal financial gain and to carve out a nice little piece of the Middle East. Don’t be deluded. Do the research. It doesn’t matter if we pull out of the war or not because what is done, is done. If nothing changes, nothing changes. The bastards that helped create this problem are still in power and are believed to be good, law abiding citizens. Either way, there is hell to pay for being involved in this war, or for pulling out. Either way there are consequences that are completely ineveitable.

By: ggg

ggg — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 18:49:56 +0000

if we pull out alquada will bomb us again but it will be worse

By: Sean

Sean — Wed, 18 Oct 2006 03:54:56 +0000

You’re my man Willy!

By: willy

willy — Tue, 17 Oct 2006 21:03:27 +0000

retarded idiot the democrats are!!!!!! why should we pu;; out of iraq. why shuld we raise taxes? give me one good reason why we should do these things!!!!!!!!?????????????????????