Al qaeda is happy too!
Worst war ever.
The sunnis hate us. The shiites hate us. 150k iraqis have been killed. Iraq is in a downward spiral of a civil war. Al Quaida hated the secular Sadam, now they are using him and the war as a recruiting poster. For every terrorist we kill, our unpopular war creates five more. We helped sink Tony Blair, our most impt ally. The tab is up to what, two hundred billion? We have no reasonable exit strategy, even most of us against the war from the start know we cant up and leave. We have lost crediblity with strategic allies. A Shiite Iraq is closer to a Shiite Iran than ever, Iran being the more dangerous foe. The war distracts our leaders from impt domestic issues. Oh yes, most importantly we lose young Amercian lives every day while scores of others come home horribly injured.
Okay, its probably not as bad as Vietnam. Its just that after Vietnam one would think we should know better.
The thread topic infers that those who voted for change(this election mostly was a referendum on the war) are playing into Al Quada hands. It also infers that those of us against the war are weak on terror and sympathize with Al Quada.
Its just an extension of the mentality that got us into the war in the first place. Its transparent and tiresome. We had many congressmen voting for the war for fear of being labeled Al Quada apologists or for being soft on terror. Sadam and Al Quada were never aligned and there never was any Iraq/ 9-11 connection just as there never were WMDs.
Worst war ever. Lets get out of the pointing fingers at who started it phase. Lets get out of the trying to justify it phase. Lets stop pretending the Iraqis are better off. Lets get the Republicans and Democrats to work on a bipartisan solution to get our soldiers home as soon as possible without abandoning the brave Iraqis who supported us over there.