IRAQ seems to be falling apart

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Originally Posted by davinxtk

My friend Steve is sitting next to me talking about his friend from Plymouth who just got wasted over in Iraq.

We need to get the fuck out of there and let the UN, or whoever the fuck wants to, deal with the situation. We've destroyed their cities, occupied their country, and caused enough riots and turmoil to keep the anti-American sentiment alive for another four, eight, twelve, however many years it is before another republican president decides that control over oil wells is a "weapon of mass destruction."

If only Bush had waited for the UN to actually approve going into Iraq and they actually had....our troops would still be the one's over there. Do you know what the UN army is composed of? The UN isn't it's own country.

We see alot of bad press, and yes soldiers die. You kind of have to resolve to that when you enlist. It's a little far-fetched to think being a soldier, in a war/occupation things are just rosy and people throw daisies at your feet.

Do you really think if we pulled out it wouldn't just get worse? That some dictator wouldn't just grab power and the country would be right back where we ripped it from? We caused it, of course we have to clean it up. It's called responsibility for one's actions. And it's going to be difficult to instill the idea of democracy into a people who have been ruled by a cruel dictator where it was probably tantamount to torture or a death sentence if one were to voice opposition to the regime. I can imagine their history books being slanted towards Sadaam's version of history just as ours do to our own. It's very early in the game; it takes along time to develop a system of gov't. Our first constitution, the Articles dismally failed but it still took a couple years to do so and the country was on the brink of collapse for a very long time right after the revolution. I say expecting a working gov't in 1 year is a pretty big order. Sadly, the only people who can speak up in Iraq, are the one's that have no qualms about bombing contractors/civilians b/c they've never been afraid to die for their causes anyway. Of course we don't wanna die for another country, but our war chief was elected to be in charge of our army and this is what he's done.