Now that Saddam's been captured, how much longer will we be in Iraq?

[MyDogSpot]

Anybody have a rough estimate?

Why are we still in Iraq if Saddam is no longer in power? The media never talks about this. Any answers?

Why are we in Iraq? Curious US minds want to know.

[BlueEyedSon]

1. WE CAPTURED SADDAM???

:evilgrin:

[Zenlitened]

3. Yep. He had a suitcase nuke and was trying to blow up New York...

... again! That bastard!

Caught him at Carnegie Deli, where he was having his "martyr's meal." (You just can't get a good brisket in Baghdad.)

[MadHound]

2. However long it takes to pump all the oil out of the ground,

And extract the last cent from the gullible public(and I'm not talking about the Iraqis).

[SodoffBush]

4. The neverending search for all the evil doers in the world

The gig that keeps on giving

[atreides1]

5. My Guess

Forever or until the Rapture, whichever comes first. Watching CNN this
morning the ticker at the bottom said that the number of American troops will remain at 150,000 even after the Iraqi elections.

Bush isn't going to leave Iraq, or the region, there does that answer your question?

[MyDogSpot]

6. I was told, if we got Saddam, all US worries would be over

and there would be peace and harmony in the world, forever more.

[McKenzie]

7. I still think you guys arrested Santa Claus by mistake

bet loads of kids don't get pressies this year becuase you have locked poor old Santa up...why else is there such silence on Saddam's whereabouts? It's too embarrassing for the government to admit...Santa is in the slammer...Saddam is still out there.

[OneBlueSky]

8. forever . . .

you don't construct 14 permanent military bases and the world's largest embassy if you're thinking of leaving . . .

[4MoreYearsOfHell]

9. Until we

move into Iran...

[Cocoa]

10. actually, we just went to "disarm" Saddam

that was the language they were using right before the war.

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[laura888]

15. The government is going to be elected by the people.

Currently, the government is appointed by the U.S.

Once a true democracy is established (yeah, right), the people will vote in a government that kicks us out.

[Ravenseye]

13. You're Kidding Right?

I mean...honestly what did you want them to do? Rush in, destroy all the infrastructure, government, and arrest Saddam, and then run out leaving even worse chaos behind?

If you were for getting Saddam (not the freaking reason we went into Iraq btw) then you should be for staying there 5 years or more, maybe even 10 or more. You break it you bought it. We didn't like the way things were going, so we broke it, and now we're starting from scratch.

Honestly I hate the fact that we went over there on bogus lies perpetrated by the villains in charge of our country, but what would you have us do? Go in kill thousands of people, destroy the only form of organization preventing chaos and then leaving with the country in the stone age? IF we went to get Saddam, then the whole point of going is to help the people there not hurt them.

[laura888]

14. The chaos will continue until we leave

NOTE: almost all of the violence that is occurring is due to the fact that they don't want us there.

If we're sincere in our profession of caring for the Iraqis, we will keep them from dying by getting the hell out.

[Ravenseye]

16. and then it will continue more.

Look there are people attacking our soldiers, but if we leave now those same people aren't going to lay down their guns and say 'ok lets have an election'. They're going to take over the country and put a new dictator in charge, and all we'll have done is cause thousands more people to die.

If we care about the iraqi's we'll help them MORE not less. WE shouldn't have done anything in the first place, but we fucked up the country, and if we leave now we'll leave it more fucked than when we went in.

But I guess it's easy to say lets get the hell out when you don't have family living there like I do. You might not personally realize that if the U.S. troops pull out the situation will just get worse and stay that way till we have to send more troops over there in the future.

[laura888]

17. Yes, but do you really think that in the new elections...

...they will vote for someone that's been given the seal of approval by the U.S., especially, if that government will approve more attacks on Fallujah? And give the country's oil away to the U.S.?

If you hadn't of said you were an Iraqi, I would say it sounds like you're saying the Iraqis are the "white man's burden."