Originally posted by Mopardh9@Nov 3 2003, 04:34 AM
What you people don't realize is the big picture . If we pull out now the sitaution will only become more grave than it was before the war. No one ever said this was going to be easy, fighting terrorism will take decades, it is not a 6 month fight. If we had done something like this back in the Clinton era we would have been that much more ahead of the game,but we stood back and pretty much did nothing. I applaud the pesident for standing up to the World , not backing down from criticism. We tend to only hear the bad things happening in Iraq.....we don't get much of the good news ( schools reopened, hospitals up and running,power back on, infrastucture being repaired) Most of the people in Iraq are very glad we are there. Those that aren't are all connected to Saadam. Once he is eliminated a lot of the organizational aggression towards our troops will not exist. Stay the course Mr. President.....God forbid another Democrat gets into office in 2004!
Given this boards very conservative stance on the issues, I am inclined to disagree. My brother is a soldier in the U.S Army and I've really come to respect and find friends and acquaintances within the 375th Chemical Company he's in. I love my country, I love the armed forces, I just dont like what the President is using them for and what the President has done over the past few months.
Firstly, I dont think the Iraq people really like what we are doing in Iraq, if they like us, why are they killing our troops? Why are Iraqi men, women and children taking up weapons and killing our troops? There is no good news from Iraq, was there any good news from Somalia? No, was there any good news from Vietnam? No, because we were getting attacked constantly. There is no good news from Iraq, those schools, hospitals and homes, can they replace the human lives we are losing right now? Hell No. We cant even build homes, schools and hospitals at home the way things are going. And there are Republicans who think that incidents like suicide bombs and attacks on American Soldiers are "progress"
Ha, I loathe the person who says that's progress and that person is President Bush. The Administration could build all the schools, hospitals and things they want and tell their buddies like Scarborough, Hannity and O'Reilly to brainwash the media and public into thinking that Iraq is a happy go-lucky place with leprauchauns dancing about and pots of gold laying in the hills. We may have crushed the Iraqi Army and pushed Hussein out, but now the Iraqis are rebelling, now we're in a quagmire and men and women of our armed forces are being killed every single day, we're not hunting them anymore, it's us that are being hunted, one by one. Bring back any memories of Vietnam? Somalia? I think Bush cant accept the fact that he's dug the American public into a hole it wont get out of within the forseeable future and will cover it up by landing a lousy f-18 on some damn carrier and saying "The war is over." You cant help but just laugh at the man.
Bring our troops home, you've crushed Hussein now, you've settled your score Bush, now bring our troops home, let the other countries and the UN deal with it. Besides, the Iraqis will never ever accept American democracy one way or another. He can still make up with our allies whom he pissed off during the war. and ask them to help in rebuilding in Iraq.
However, if things go as they go, I hope someone replaces Bush, and it better happen soon.
on May 1, 146 soldiers have been killed in action in Iraq.
I hear you... 
