The Cellar - View Single Post - House, 218 to 212, Votes to Set Date for Iraq Pullout

piercehawkeye45 · 03-24-2007, 10:48 PM

I am agnostic on pulling out. I extremely disagree with the reasons we went there for and think we should have never been there in the first place but we created a new mess that is even bigger than Vietnam. 50-500 thousand Iraqi civilians have died already and if we pull out, we will only make it worse for them.

If we do pull out, there is likely to be a very bloody civil war that will last a few years and then stablize (hopefully). If we don't, we can wait for it to stablize, which may never happen, or eventually just give up. Assuming Iraq will stabilize, we have to choose between a short war with many deaths or a long war with fewer deaths.

03-24-2007, 10:48 PM	#4
piercehawkeye45 Franklin Pierce Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Minnesota Posts: 3,695	I am agnostic on pulling out. I extremely disagree with the reasons we went there for and think we should have never been there in the first place but we created a new mess that is even bigger than Vietnam. 50-500 thousand Iraqi civilians have died already and if we pull out, we will only make it worse for them. If we do pull out, there is likely to be a very bloody civil war that will last a few years and then stablize (hopefully). If we don't, we can wait for it to stablize, which may never happen, or eventually just give up. Assuming Iraq will stabilize, we have to choose between a short war with many deaths or a long war with fewer deaths.