Thread: And this is why pulling out is an awful idea.
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Old 03-08-2008, 09:17 PM   #5 (permalink)
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Re: And this is why pulling out is an awful idea.
I used to support this way of thinking 100%.

I no longer feel that way.

What changed my mind was I thought of a few questions:

"What are our goals in Iraq?"

"What do we have to accomplish before we can leave?"

There are no good answers to those questions so I decided we just need to bring our troops home. If we would have stayed in Vietnam 10 more years would we have accomplished anything other than getting thousands of more troops killed? I don't think so. I feel the same way about Iraq.

Of course Iraq is going to be bad when we leave. But the other option is becoming an occupying force for who knows how long.
Stop talkin' bout stayin' the course
You keep on beatin' that old dead horse
You know they lied about why we went to War
I can't take it no more
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