About the war on Iraq

What do you think of the foreign troops in Iraq ?

  • They must leave Iraq

    Votes: 21 52.5%

  • They must not leave Iraq

    Votes: 6 15.0%

  • It doesn't make any difference

    Votes: 5 12.5%

  • I don't have any opinion

    Votes: 3 7.5%

  • Other.. or I don't like the poll

    Votes: 5 12.5%
  • Total voters
    40
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my vote says must They must leave Iraq because mostly foreign and USA getting hurt all the times in news and fears by families and also wives too.
 
vote..I don't have any opinion :dunno2:
 
pek1 said:
No, they don't. If you believe they do, care to quote your sources?
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My sister was in the navy for 25 years and was in persian gulf... on the medical ship during war.
She makes a lot of money and then when she retired, they paid her a lot more
and plus for injury...

And her son gets free medical.
 
Deafilmedia said:
Soldiers make a lot of money during and after war.
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Well, if anyone who serves their duty of military for many years like 20 or more years then they will receive good military pension when they are retired.
 
I won't let terrorism win. I support freedom to fight the globe for peace, food, medicine, and more. For example I would be happy and freedom in the peace world without terrorism exists. There is still dangerous out somewhere who will try to kill us with nuclear dirty and biochemical weapons. To keep Untied Nations and American soldiers in check every citizen. Terrorists love wars and bloods.

My opinion to bring them home is good idealism for their experiences. They can replace them every time when they need a spend time with their families.

It is like Police Globe to watch for us to protect us from dangerous. They are doing is not war soldier.
 
Deafilmedia said:
Soldiers make a lot of money during and after war.
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Not really, do you have proof to think they make lot of money? I don't believe that. They are over there fighting for our country to protect us. But I do believe they need to pull out the american troops soilders to bring them back home. The war gone on long enough.
 
Deafilmedia said:
Soldiers make a lot of money during and after war.
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That's load of bullshits. My brother is a combat veteran from Iraq War. He only gets about $2,000 a month (not exactly sure) while he kicked the bad guys' asses.
 
Deafilmedia said:
My sister was in the navy for 25 years and was in persian gulf... on the medical ship during war.
She makes a lot of money and then when she retired, they paid her a lot more
and plus for injury...

And her son gets free medical.
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I don't know what you consider "a lot of money" but my Hubby retired from the Navy after 21 years, and he gets about $1,300 per month.

Your sister gets more because she served more years, and she might have been senior to my Hubby. Was she an officer? Also, if she has a service-connected disability that affects her pension.

Dependents don't get totally free medical care. If the service member pays monthly for Tricare insurance they can get reduced cost medical care but it's not free.
 
Reba,

I thought the VA was free to the vets? My dad goes to there and even gets his hearing aids and batteries for free. Of course, he was in Japan non-combat, if I recall, while WWII was going on and had back surgery while in the Army.
 
pek1 said:
Reba,

I thought the VA was free to the vets? My dad goes to there and even gets his hearing aids and batteries for free. Of course, he was in Japan non-combat, if I recall, while WWII was going on and had back surgery while in the Army.
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It depends. It depends on family income, and whether or not it's service connected conditions.

Hubby and I don't have service-connected injuries or conditions, and we both work, so we have to pay for our medical services. We get prescription meds free. We get most medical services from the VA hospital. We don't get any eye care or dental care there.

In fact, I just came back from the dentist a few minutes ago. Half my mouth is numb, and my check book is $876 lighter. Excuse my crooked grin.
 
Zarqawi Map Aided Successes Against Iraqi Insurgency

Tuesday , November 20, 2007

WASHINGTON —
A key turning point in the U.S.-led war against the Iraqi insurgency came even before last winter's troop surge, FOX News has learned.

A map drawn by Al Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi — who was killed last year by U.S. forces — turned up last December in an Al Qaeda safe house and essentially gave U.S. war planners insight into the terrorist group's methods for moving explosives, fighters and money into Baghdad.

"The map essentially laid out how Al Qaeda controlled Baghdad. And they did it through four belts that surrounded the city, and these belts controlled access to the city for reinforcements and weapons and money," said Maj. Gen. Bob Scales, a FOX News contributor who recently visited Iraq.

"And [U.S.-led forces] simply made the decision to reduce these belts one at a time, and essentially what that did was it choked off Al Qaeda's access to the city. And once that was done, Al Qaeda had no alternative but to leave the city, to leave the belts and to retreat into the city of Baquba," Scales said.

The map showed four rings around Baghdad, nearly identical to rings former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein once created to protect the city.

U.S. military planners used those maps to choke off Al Qaeda, moving ring by ring, hunting and destroying Al Qaeda in Baghdad, flushing them out of their urban strongholds and picking them off as easy targets in the desert.

The troop surge was announced Jan. 10 and began soon after that. Gens. David Petraeus and Raymond Odierno took a risky but calculated move to send U.S. troops out of main base camps and set up small patrol stations that were jointly manned with Iraqi forces, essentially living among Iraqis in Baghdad. It made it easier for intelligence to surface but made U.S. troops easier targets.

U.S. forces seized on an opportunity as Al Qaeda gathered in the northern city of Baquba. The surge allowed troops to encircle Baghdad, and the insurgents fled into the desert, making them even more vulnerable to U.S. forces.

"What this offensive did is it essentially cut the head off the snake," Scales said.

The explanation for the turning point came as new reports of a more peaceful Baghdad surfaced.

The New York Times reported Tuesday that Iraqi civilians were returning to more normal rhythms of life, which had been disrupted first by Hussein's oppressive rule and then by fighting that ensued after the 2003 U.S. invasion.

The Times reported that days now pass without a car bombing, unheard of in the height of the insurgency. The number of bodies appearing on the streets has fallen from a peak of 35 eight months ago to five a day, and homicide bombings dropped to 16 in October, half as many as last summer and down from a peak of 59 last March.

The Times report, based on interviews with 50 Baghdad residents, said that people are moving freely about Baghdad for the first time in nearly two years. While there still are places people do not enter, there is more travel between Shiite and Sunni areas for everyday routines such as work, shopping and school. Significantly, this travel occurs even after dark, the Times reported.

Other signs of emerging life included women displaying wedding bands, liquor stores opening up and children being able to walk between libraries and their homes.

FOX News' Jennifer Griffin contributed to this report.
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The fact of the matter is: we cannot withdraw from Iraq. We have weakened its infrastructure, replaced its government with a government taking baby steps, and have renewed old Iraqi problems (before a dictatorship "united" all of them).

The United States and its allies have gotten its feet wet. We cannot withdraw now without causing bigger problems.

This is a fight to the death for oil and, for the United States, a war to assist the post-Cold War Defense-Industrial Complex (a.k.a. Military-Industrial Complex).

In short, the bed is made - we must now lie in it.
 
even if they did recieve alot of money ,which they don't! then I'd say it was money well spent, they risk their lives for your freedom.
racing drivers are paid millions of dollars risking their lives for your entertainment, anyone who grudges money to men and women who are risking their life for your freedom is just sick in the head...

and even if true, only the lucky ones who come back home safely to their families could benefit
 
Teresh said:
I thought the Iraq war was a bad idea when it started and I think it's a bad idea now.

The only thing worse than staying in Iraq is leaving, though. Our soldiers are there now and like it or not, if we just pack up and leave, there's going to be a huge amount of bloodshed. I'm not so cynical to think the blood of tens of thousands of Iraqis at the hands of insurgents, and then the rise of another totalitarian regime is worth the immediate withdrawl from Iraq.

I don't think we should have ever invaded Iraq in the first place, but nonetheless, the President got us into this mess, and now it is the blood of our soldiers that is wiping clean that mistake. But now that we are there, and have a strong military presence in the country, the worst thing we could do is just pack up and leave. If we allow another totalitarian regime to rise to power unchecked, the deaths of the thousands of Americans and Iraqis in Iraq these last few years will have been meaningless.

We must see this through to the end, even if it was a mistake in the first place.
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Agree
 
I'm glad we bombed Iraq.

Iraq shouldn't be a country.

We should make Iraq our 51st state.

We could use its natural resource--oil. ;)
 
Byrdie714 said:
I'm glad we bombed Iraq.

Iraq shouldn't be a country.

We should make Iraq our 51st state.

We could use its natural resource--oil. ;)
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Actually, we would make it a US territory, just like Guam and the Marshall Islands are in the South Pacific. There are other islands out there that we own, they're just not states and never will be.
 
You know Iraq have been a problem since in the 80's maybe before that. I remmy when there was a hostage back in the 80's and it was send the troops over there. Then again more troops over there in the early 90's but a very short war last about less then a month. And now this. so enough is enough. Time for them to come home. They have been over there too long and Iraq need a new president for crying outloud and better government.
 
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