Will W meet Cindy Sheehan

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Aren't people afaid that if we just up and left Iraq that it could easily become how Afghanstan was in the 90s? The Base's philsophy is pretty much an Arab/Islamic version of Hitler's. Isn't anyone afriad that if these people ever gained real military power that they would be more than willingly to inflict a Holocaust style killing on anyone they deem to be an infidel or apostate instead of blowing themselves up in a car on some street in Bagdhad. Our occupation is defiantly adding to recruitment and terrorism but I can only imagine how many more people would sign up if it looked like they drove us out of Iraq like they did to the Soviets in Afghanstan. Bin Laden has in the past commented that our biggest weakest is not being able to finish things through and put up with causualties of our own men. Leaving Iraq now would prove him right 100%. The extremists consider the fight in Iraq to be the equilvant to fighting the Soviets in Afghanstan. The foriegn fighters from all over the globe are coming to fight US in Iraq. Its terrible that the Iraqi civilians and Iraqi police/soldiers and our serivcemen and woman and other international soldiers are the ones being killed but I see fighting the flood of foriegn fighters coming into Iraq because of our occupation as better than them all chilling in their home countries planning ways to win matrydom.

Just sucks that our invasion of Iraq has created a new network of terrorists and taught a new era of people the techniques just like the Soviet war in Afghanstan did, but leaving now wouldn't stop that and I personally think Iraq's future would be much grimer if we left within the next year. I'm a conservative and the amount of money Bush has spent in his years as president is truly disgusting but leaving now before Iraq is somewhat stable I think would be costlier for us and the world in the long run.


Max you want years? I'd say we will have to still have some type of prescense in Iraq for another 5 years atleast and another 10 years at the most. But deciding when to end a conflict based on loss of life is never a good idea. I think if we did that we would never of even entered WW2, let alone ended it.

The invasion of Iraq was obviously not helpful to the world or our 'war on terrorism' but I don't think leaving prematurly will solve any of the problems we created and I think with the amount of extremists in Iraq now, there is more reason to stay than when we thought/lied about Saddam having WMDs.