Defending the Indefensible: Iraq

Strother is right on the money! At some point, we've got to cut our losses. How can this administration justify any more loss of life; American or Iraqi? It was a HUGE mistake to begin with, and many of us knew that from the beginning. I can forgive those who couldn't see it and those who truly believed that our president wouldn't lie to us and must have known something that we didn't. But now that it is clear that the reasons for going to war were bogus and that we've created an even bigger mess than the one we stepped into, how can anyone propose to continue down this road??

Steve, I agree that we have a real problem in that we don't want to abandon innocent people, but considering the fact that these insurgencies didn't start until after we ousted Saddam and "occupied" their country, maybe they don't want us there? Perhaps we are making their lives worse?

Set up the Iraqi police force like we said we were going to do and get out. We can not solve this nation's problems because they run deep and involve decades of tribal conflicts that the average American couldn't begin to understand. As Strother pointed out, the real problem in the middle east started after WWI when nations were split down the middle with no regard to who occupied the territories. Military force isn't going to "fix" that kind of problem.