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Majority of American Military Turn Aginst Iraq War

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Majority of American Military Turn Aginst Iraq War

Bush Has Lost Support for the War On ALL sides!

from JoeUser Forums


The latest poll of American Military shows that only 35% support Bush and the Iraq war. What is even more disturbing is that 61% believe the war is lost!

As 2006 ends, America lost the 3,000th death in Iraq with over 22,000 injuries. There is no end in sight and the vast majority does not support sending more troops to Iraq because they see no real chance that a small surge of 20-35,000 troops will make any difference in the final outcome. The latest polls shows only 17% favor sending more troops to Iraq.

The lesson Bush has not learned is the one we learned in Vietnam. You CAN NOT conduct a war that the majority of Americans DO NOT SUPPORT. It is time to bring the troops HOME!
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
IslandDog

The facts are that Saddam was NOT a THREAT to our country! If Bush had allowed the UN weapons inspectors, who were in Iraq in March 2003, to complete their work, he would have learned that Saddam had no WMD! There was NO reason to act before the weapons inspectors completed their work. Saddam was not about to attack us or did he have the capability to attack us at any time!
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
19 people didn't have the ability to attack us did they col?  Saddaam had deceived the weapons inspectors for over a decades, and was continuing to do so.  Saddam was a threat because Hillary Clinton said so!


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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
Saddam was not involved with al Qaeda. If that is you’re standard to attack a potential adversary with 19 people who hate us, we should be at war with EVERY COUNTRY ON EARTH!
Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
What are you talking about?

Al-qaeda was fleeing to Iraq after Afghanistan.  We have gone over this many times, but you just don't get it col. 
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
IslandDog

There was NO Al-Qaeda operating in Iraq until AFTER Bush invaded Iraq. Now they are operating in western Iraq with 135,000 U.S. Troops in Iraq. There was NO connection between 9/11 and Saddam. There were no Nuclear or Bio WMD in Iraq only a few OLD Gas Filled Artillery shells that threatened no one. We were not welcomed as liberators but occupiers and our invasion has created many new radicals that has made us LESS not More safe according to our own National Intelligence Estimate. We have destabilized Iraq and helped form a government in Iraq made up of the same faction as the one that controls Iran. We have done real well!
Reply #31 from JoeUser Forums Top
'There was NO Al-Qaeda operating in Iraq until AFTER Bush invaded Iraq.'


That's completely untrue. Zarqawi was in Iraq before we invaded, as was Ansar al-Islam.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top

I'm glad we went into Iraq and took out Saddam.

I don't, however, understand why we kept our troops there for years and years. Put up a puppet government, put our troops in a base to eliminate any terrorist strongholds that might come up.

Our job was to remove the regime. Not make the land into kumbaya world.

Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
Bakerstreet

Please READ-- OPERATING not visiting. The operations of al Qaeda forces started AFTER Bush invaded Iraq!

Draginol

We differ in that I do not believe the U.S. should have removed Saddam. That is NOT because he did not deserve to be removed. It is because our actions have just added to those in the Moslem World that would cause us harm.

I do agree that after Saddam was deposed, our troops should have been removed and allowed the Iraqi People to choose their fate! We are NATION BUILDING and that is a mistake!