your a duechebag, get on halo. Ok bottom line. Lets ass-u-me that we are actually there for oil. Why is that bad? we need oil, simple as that. Now ignoring that there is over 9 times the amount of oil in Suadi Arabia contained in resivours in the rockies, and south and North Dakota that were not aloud to drill in becuase of eco-pansies. but any way.... We are attacked, and if we pull out we will be attacked again. People seem to have forgotten that we did not start this. This is not "America's mission of spreading democracy" This is "America's mission to kick terorist ass", and please don't say "They're just mad at us for getting into they're buisness" becuase they got into 3,000 people families buisness when they buried them under tons of steel. I don't want another Sept. 11. I remember the feelings of the days following when America was united, when we said we will not take this, when we as a nation said we would avange this act. What has happened since? It is incredibally sad that protecting people's lives and rights has become less important that money.
mon macka, be reasonable, lets keep this thread clean. ferretness you to. I see that you obviously disagree with ferretness, but you didnt have to go that far. A debate isnt an flame-a-polooza people.
The government is blowing a lot of our money on this war. Sure, gas prices would skyrocket if we left, but why can't we just use the money we are spending on the war to research alternative fuels? I do not support this war. If I were in charge, I would get our people out of there and become a more respectable, not feared, country.
We wouldn't need oil if the ones who began and are perpetuating the war in Iraq weren't blocking alternatives. Check out this movie sometime, it's very enlightening. We are talking about Iraq, right? Iraq never attacked us. We did start that one.
Lol, yeah I seem to remember a terrorist organization based in AFGHANISTAN called Al Qaeda attacking us, how did Iraq even get brought into this whole attacking of America thing.
personally I believe that the oil companies already have the technologies (buying them much like microsoft did) but regardless of whether of not people are blocking the technologies the fact still remains that we need oil, and unless we open up American drilling theres no real other place to get it (albeit we get lots of oil from Russia and Canada amoung other places. Thes third anti-war argument. "We are not fighting who we hould be". The afct is we are not fighting a country, we ae fighting an arganization without bounds. There are cells of Al-Quida all over Europe, and some in the USA. However the majority is located in the middle east. But for real, you dont think their going to move once we attack them? that would just be stupid. I am only going to respond to taht to say I made the comment "Your a dueche, get on halo". thinking you were another person (mackmack5). If you were offended I apologize.
Gas prices were lower before the war. How has war helped get oil? Maybe we just need to invade Saudi Arabia and Iran. Maybe then we will get what we want.
Didn't the US invade Iraq in retaliation to its attacks on neighbouring countries, which the US were allies with, only for oil. Iran is next, then likely Saudi. The troops will never leave.
That was desert storm. We're talking about the most recent. This war was based on Iraq, "funding terrorists."
The raised gas prices has more to do with Ethanol and the oil stockpile than the war. you say that like you don't think they are.
Pulling out of the war no would be the worst thing we could do now. I understand why the general population wants to pull the troops out, but that is because they are mis-lead by the media. All you hear is about the deaths of the soldiers and not the accomplishments and while thats not always the medias fault as a lot of what the troops do is classified and on a need to know basis. If we pull out now and leave the job unfinished we are risking more innocent lives. Sure they wont be American lives, but they are still lives none the less. I joined the military straight out of high school and I made the decision to do so right after 9/11. To just think those bastards would do something like that to us just pissed me off. But then I really got to thinking and if you think that those "extremists" only attacked us your wrong they will attack there own people just as quick as us, if thats what there are told to do in the name of there "god". But they are defenseless over there and I am not about to stand to the side and let another nation just beat the hell out of another nation until it is gone completely. That will only strengthen that nation and then they will be right back to us. In saying all this we do need to set a time line on withdrawing the troops but it still needs to be sometime in the future as we still need to train the Iraqi troops to be able to defend themselves. So yes we need to withdraw troops but not right away and slowly over time.
Because I don't look at it that way. In 1776 France helped America drive off the British. Was France funding the terrorism of America? The western world has ravaged these countries.
I hate to bring up conspiracies...But if we would take a look back real quick as to why we are in this war...We may be able to understand why it's a bad thing that we are in the War in Iraq, and the War on Terror to begin with... http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=JP2YZGskECMThis film has a crap beginning and some horrible quality, but Alex Jones is a great realist who explains the illegitimacy of 9/11... Also, if we pull back now...We will look like we are weak as a country, though on the other hand, by beginning this war, we look like power hungry tight-asses who simply demand oil, money, and power.
It's a conspiracy. There's more and more evidence leaning on that 911 was staged by the government so we would have the fight to go after terrorist organizations. Once there, we completely invaded Iraq claiming the Saddam had WMD's, which he didn't. It's all a scam for oil. Ethanol has nothing to do with raising gas prices. Tex beat me to it.
erm...I gave a source? If you would like others...gimme a sec... One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Had enough yet?