The Story………
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Troops in Iraq, Should They stay?
For almost four years, America has had an on going debate about Troops remaining in Iraq. The dispute has gotten even more heated as President Bush decided to increase the number of Soldiers in Iraq by the thousands. Although anti-war citizens claim that American forces have completed what they set out to do in the beginning of the conflict, there are many other Pro-war citizens who disagree, saying that there are other goals to accomplish before exiting the country. These citizens, in support of the war, state that if troops pull out now, Self-government will be withdrawn, Democratic possibilities will be abandoned, and Iraq’s new found confidence to aid in the war will also be demolished in to hopelessness.
The Iraqis request for self-government is one that cannot be ignored. A vast majority has already voted to ensure that the voice of the Iraqi community is heard. The Iraqi people find that with the help and support of the United States, they can move to permanently possess a self-governed society. The United States can help with this situation and move to another problem that can hopefully be solved. This brings me to my next point about democratic solutions.
Although democrats focus on President Bush’s decision to bring America to the war several years ago, they still hope for a massive coverage of the events in Iraq. Such coverage includes a vigorous political campaign, and a large number of independent television stations and newspapers covering every change in the war. It is the hope that democratic solutions will be brought directly to Iraq. These possibilities can make a difference if use correctly with news distribution.
Over the years, Iraq has found a new confidence that they’ve never known before. This confidence helped the Iraqi community conduct a poll that has proved such. The polls conducted by Iraqis for Iraqi universities show an increasing optimism in a general attitude about the war. Two-thirds say that they are better off then they were under Saddam Hussein. A resounding 82% are confident that their lives in Iraq will be better one year after today. What a huge mistake it would be, for America’s leadership, to choose a moment in history to pull out of Iraq and lose all of the political pull that we have now?
In conclusion, I say that our troops in Iraq Are doing a lot more for that country then anybody else ever could. Our troops are not just taking up space, as Anti-war citizens would have you believe. Pro-war citizens can only hope that these aspects of the war will be taken in to consideration. Because without American troops in Iraq, self-government would be withdrawn, democratic possibilities abandoned, and Iraq’s newfound confidence to aid in the war, would be demolished in to hopelessness.
What Withdrawal Would Mean
Let's suppose we do what Anti-war people are suggesting, and either pull the troops out immediately or announce a firm timetable for withdrawal of our troops. What will happen? Here are some of the results (in order of probability, starting with dead certain): Osama Bin Laden and his affiliates in Iraq and elsewhere will not just seem but be completely vindicated. Osama always said that America had no spine. If you just kill enough Americans, we'll give up and go home. Everyone in the Muslim world will see that Osama was right, and people who doubted him were wrong. Terrorists around the world will be encouraged. Terrorism works! The noble heroes who gave their lives in suicide bombings -- and the cleverer ones who simply left roadside explosive devices and detonated them remotely when Americans were passing -- will find many more recruits, for they are in a winning cause.
The Iraqi people will realize that despite how it appeared for the past couple of years, we're still the same Americans who abandoned them when they rebelled against Saddam after the Gulf War. You just can't believe anything Americans promise. And what the Iraqis learn firsthand, all other people who might have been tempted to trust us will learn vicariously. Who will believe an American promise now? Our own military will be profoundly demoralized. What was all that sacrifice about? The years they gave up to service in Iraq, the lives of their friends and comrades who were killed or maimed, all of it meant nothing because their leaders didn't have even a fraction of the courage they had to show every day. All of that terrorist money and all those explosives that were flowing into Iraq ... where will they go now?
Without American troops in Iraq, the fledgling democracy there will be hard-pressed to survive. Their troops, not yet forged into a coherent army, will run a grave risk of fragmenting along partisan lines, with separate Kurdish, Shiite, and Sunni armies. The result? Civil war. If such a civil war happens, there is little chance that Turkey and Iran will keep their hands off. Turkey will try to suppress the Kurds, Iran to promote the Shiites. The only good thing: In such an effort, Iran and Syria will have radically different goals, as Syria supports the Sunnis. There is even risk of the war spreading to involve Turkey, a NATO member, directly. Even in countries that now talk against the war and rail against American aggression, if we actually do what they claim to want, and bring our troops home right away, the governments will panic as the newly emboldened Islamists within their own borders give them far more to worry about. Soon they'll be cursing us for our cowardly withdrawal.
So, to reiterate, many people across the country see no problem with pulling out of Iraq. What happens is, they see only a few of the problems at hand. They don’t see the possible consequences of halting a four year operation and they just hope that everything will turn out right, instead of doing something about it. There are many outcomes of withdrawing from the war at this moment. And almost all of them are negative.
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