We should let troops see there families. BOTTOM LINE!!!!!!!!

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"1. Leave Iraq completely. I don't think anyone really considers this a serious option. "

I on the other hand think that 80% of the Iraqis consider this as a very likable option. Put other way round, does anyone believe the Iraqis favor permanent American military bases in Iraq ?

Here are our options:
1. Leave Iraq completely. I don't think anyone really considers this a serious option. It's only used as a political move.

2. Stay in Iraq and try to build some kind of nation. This will cost us all of our savings. Every part of our savings including everything we have in our homes and our stock markets will be transferred to China. And Iraq still may not become a stable region.

I don't want to sound hopeless. It just seems that the dictatorship there before was better than the bloodbath now and the squandered billions of dollars on a fruitless mission.

Why has it taken us this long to realize that democracy can not be imposed by force. Any college student who takes a world politics class knows this. Way to go post you finally figured it out.

"Should I stay or should I go now?
If I go there will be trouble
And if I stay it will be double
So come on and let me know"

"Oh I wish I was a punk rocker with flowers in my hair. In 77 and 69 revolution was in the air"

Punk is not dead !

Ok, so we can't leave, how about we get all our troops out of central and southern Iraq, leave a division in Kurdistan and some ships in the Gulf. That way if we need to we can go back into Iraq, but our soldiers aren't travelling the country as moving targets every day.

I will tell you what would happen if we withdraw from Iraq. Iraq would be 500 times worse then it could potentially have ever been under the rule of Saddam. Terrorist will own Iraq and make the Taliban look like kindergarten school. Basically it would result in attacks being carried out throughout the world and eventially reaching America in ways we could not imagine. It would weaken our image more then anything if we just quit. This can not happen. America can't "run away".

Do the Democrats really think that we can just withdraw from Iraq without any strings attached? What kind of message would that send to the world, to our enemies? I'll tell you, it will show the would that once again, we don't have the backbone to finish the job and only can tuck our tale and run away. If we leave Iraq, we are basically betraying every Iraqi citizen seeking a better country. We would be handing the world over to terrorist and Iraq would turn into the beginning of the end. We got ourselves into this mess, we got to finish it now at all costs. Withdrawing our troops would be a disaster for our future. Do Democrats really believe we can just withdraw and the terrorist are going to disappear? They are not going away. I do believe a new strategy needs implemented, but that doesn't involve America running away! We would be betraying more then the Iraqis, we would be betraying ourselves, our country, the world and the men and women that have died in this war.......

What about Vietnam, all those people died before it was realized that we need to get the heck out before anymore chaos happens, this is the same case, people have died, that is true, but we don't need to stay there any longer, and watch our soldiers fight a war that is damaging the morale of the United states, and having the people look badly upon our countries leadership, lets get out, and bring our guys home.

Staying in the war because of those who have already died is ilke staying at the gambling table throwing away your life savings after you have already lost the money you started to gamble with.

This war is different because Congress did not declare it as require by our Constitution, they waived that authority over to the President. Their intention was that in case the choiuce to tgo or not go was wrong they could point a finger and still be re-elected. We have wishy washy congressmen and the recent elections proved that the US is tired of that.

Unfortunately Mr. Gumede forgot one minor detail of the USA Constitution, the President is the sole authority with respect to a war [whether that war is legal or illigal under international law]. While members of Congres and Senate might suggest change of course, the President legally may decline to follow the suggestions. Only certain power the Congress/Senate has is to cut all funding for Defence Department and War during budget deliberations, such a measure is inconcievable on one hand, and would have to be able to counteract a certain Presidential Veto, which is even more an unbelievable scenario.
Remebering MR. Cheney's defence regarding the oil-discussions [as substantiated by the Judiciary] even serious investigation by Congress of the war [all asppects thereof] might end up in endless litigation, rather than straight answers for the benefit of the taxpaying citizen.

To Mr. Yadkenville:

Unfortunately for Mr. Z Yadkenville, the sacrifice by US solders only result is a chaos in Iraq, and the death sentence of Mr. Hussain -- before he could testify as to the source of poison gas, intelligence pin-pointing Irani and Kurdish millitary targets etc. [as supplied by various millitary spy-satillites of which Iraq had none.

There are numerous uncharged War criminals in relation to Mr. Hussain's wars, with his imminent death lot of important evidence will disappear.

Wonder why the USA was so interested in Iraqi jurisdiction rather than the court at HAgue????

i think we should stay because if we retreat what did all the soldiers who died die for