Iraq Attack Really Should Have Been the Last Resort

[BeFree]

The Iraqi military was, as we have seen, irrelevant. It posed no great opposition to the invading forces. All we had to do was continue bringing pressure on the Hussien regime until it collapsed.

Any real threat that Iraq ever posed to America could have been taken care of with one bomb. Instead, we threw thousands of bombs down on the Iraqi people.

Iraq is a greater threat to American lives now, than it ever was. In the ten years before the invasion, very few Americans died in Iraq. In the last 9 months, since we invaded, over 400 Americans have died on Iraqi soil.

The real threat to America, that posed by another 9/11 type of event, is still possible today, only because we don't yet know exactly how it happened to begin with. Our leaders continue to keep the secret of 9/11 a secret.

As long as the people never know the truth, the people remain threatened. It makes me very uncomfortable, how about you?

[Mattforclark]

1. Right

Back atcha

"It makes me very uncomfortable, how about you?"

[coloradodem2005]

2. I agree

I have heard on the news, on more than one occasion, that we are even more vulnerable to terrorist attacks because of the Iraq war. How is this a victory on the war on terror?

[NNN0LHI]

3. "In the ten years before the invasion, very few Americans died in Iraq"?

I am not aware of any Americans dying in Iraq during the previous ten years before we invaded. Did I miss something somewhere?

Don

[BeFree]

5. Hey Don

I can't think of any Americans who we're killed in Iraq in the last ten years. But...just in case there were, I took the safe way of listing casualties. The fact is that since we invaded, far too many human beings have died as a result of the invasion.

Also, didn't poppy bush keep from invading Baghdad in '91, because he knew the quagmire we would become involved in? Because he knew that while we may win a battle or two, we could never win the war? That he believed and acted like war really was a last resort?

Boy george repeatedly claimed war was the last resort. Franks just now exposed that lie once again, did he not? Wasn't Franks just quoted as saying he had orders on 9/12/01 to begin planning an Iraqi invasion?

[NNN0LHI]

6. Gotcha BF. And I do agree with everything else you said. Take care n/t

[MercutioATC]

4. Keep saying this...LOUDLY.

The current administration has publicly stated that there was no link between Iraq and 9/11. Many people sem not to have heard. It's important that we all continue to make the case that this entire scenario was ill-advised and that we should be looking at ways to say our apologies and turn this situation over to the U.N., if they'll even consider it any more.

When there are pictures of grade-school Iraqi children cheering burning American vehicles or when civilian Iraqi teenagers swarm a U.S. vehicle and beat two U.S. soilders to death with cinder blocks, it's time to evaluate whether we're doing what WE want or what THEY want. It's time to change our policies and stop sacrificing American soldiers.