Iraq PM Says Who Cares If You Stay Or Go
Posted by: From Arkansas in Political News, What's Your Opinion? on Jul 14 2007
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After just days ago telling our government that he needed support from us, the Iraqi PM now says that it doesn’t matter anymore. We can take care of ourselves and you can leave anytime you want. A top aide of his says that our government can take everything and go because our government is treating them like an “experiment in a U.S. lab.”
I cannot begin to tell you what I think of that particular set of statements from the Iraqi Prime Minister after what the U.S. government has done for them. I do realize that some things are no different, mostly because of terrorists that wish to undermine our efforts. It obviously worked and worked well. We have lost our own in that country. We have put our own money into that country that now is not even grateful for what has been accomplished.
This is truly a slap in the face of President Bush who has staunchly supported continuing to fight and clean up the mess in Iraq while facing opposition at home. Now, it seems that he has opposition in that country as well. Frankly, I do believe that this is going to come back to bite us no matter what happens now. There is some force at work here doing it’s best to make our country look incredibly bad. We have enough problems without that too.
I still firmly believe that if we do not clean up the mess in Iraq that that will bite us harder still at some point. There is too much that we have invested in this war to lose it now, to pick up our toys and go home without a win. Too many lives have been lost. They will have been lost in vain if we quit like we did in Vietnam. If we are to hold our heads up in the world, this war must be finished somehow.
What is your opinion of this situation? Are we just spinning our wheels over there with an ungrateful country on our hands? Should we stay despite the views of the PM? Where do we go from here?
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You need to talk to the troops not read press releases. Some good has been done but in general things are 10 times worse now than before the invasion.
Imagine that, it’s worse now than under Saddam. No water, no electricity, no food, people terrified to leave their homes.
You seem to be expecting thanks–don’t waste your time. Just wait until Jan 10, 2009 when we get the real bill for all this as Bush and Cheney wave goodbye.
Then we’ll find out just how much money was borrowed. We’re currently paying Haliburton $100 a load to wash clothes for every one of the 130,000+ troops every week.
The current Iraq war total guesstimate is about 10 billion dollars a month. Someone said recently you could build 133 new high schools for that much money.
All this and tax cuts too. I can’t wait to hear someone explain how the multi trillion dollar national isn’t really a bad thing.
P.S.—a war is when you have an army on this side and an army on that side. They wear uniforms and shoot at each other. This is not a war. This is a police action with troops walking the streets and storming houses and generally being targets for bad people with cell phones and garage door openers rigged to makeshift bombs.
It sounds to me like you have either been there or have someone who is or was there. I realize that you cannot go by the press releases but I had heard before about the media giving a terribly slanted side to things in Iraq. Frankly, I thought that it was not as bad as what you are saying.
My biggest problem with all of the talk about troops leaving has to do with the future. We, as a nation, have already left a country without finishing what we started. It caused us to “lose face” in the world. We might have been able to finish in Vietnam but we did not.
Now, we are about to do the same thing. I do realize that we did not find the WMD that was expected. But, I cannot actually see why anyone would have expected Saddam to have them out where anyone could see them anyway. He had 12 years to fix that little problem.
As for actually being in that country, we have forgotten all the mass graves that the guy and his sons had dug. Those people deserved better than that. If that justifies being in the country, so be it.
Now, we have the situation of one side was wanting us there and another does not. Thinks we are taking the country over. This war…or police action…is not winable now. It is possible it never will be but that does not mean that we should simply abandon ship. I KNOW we have soldiers dying. But, I also remember the ones who came home and told us that the people were happy to have us there. The people wanted us to help.
Of course, the people are now dealing with the terrorist element that is practically unstopable because of how they are doing this. Car bombs, suicide bombs, fighting in the streets, putting arms and weapons in temples and schools. These people are not acting human. But they are human. They simply have a cause and they feel stronger about theirs than we do about ours. It’s that simple. The war is unwinable.
I agree that the troops should come home but what then? We already have lost more in the world because of the stupid infighting between the congress and the President. What now?
As for the new President, God help us if it’s Hillary.