Reply #19: Why not? [View All]

Even if the war was launched for wrong reasons, we can't just pull out.

And don't give me that short term polls/public opinion BS. The first thing that the war hawks need to do is start taking their lessons from recent history. The parallels to Viet Nam are sitting in front of every single citizen and administration wack. We've all heard the justifications for continuing a war thousands of times. From the "cut-n-run" BS to the "we can't let them win" BS and everything betwixt.

We need to tell the arab nations and the UN that we will be withdrawing our troops on an expedited schedule, a short number of months. We then must do our best to work with the arabs and the UN to bring stability back to the region, even if that means that Iraq becomes an Islamic republic or breaks into three different states. Remember, we're the ones who invaded and brought down the unified secular government (such as it was).

Then, we must make reparations to the people of Iraq. We should pass aid bills to help build back what we have destroyed. This will help make amends for the death, torture, and chaos we have inflicted on a sovereign nation and its people. No, don't write back about Saddam, Saddam, Saddam. He was a bad cookie. But at least under Saddam they had water, electricity, infrastructure, education, and relative peace. And don't write to me that Saddam tortured and killed his own people because that's precisely what we are doing there.

Pull out of Iraq now.