War In Iraq

There are GLARING inacuracies in our comment "The government can hold down the crude oil's price by controlling Irap's oil rigs." If this was the case, then why is the price of oil STILL going up and not down? Why did we not just back up tankers and start loading up after Saddam's government fell? Why did the majority of oil contracts go to companies that are NOT from the U.S. The "it's for oil" argument is nothing more than a cliche and completely unthinking line of rasoning.

Quite agree!The beneficiaries are the businessmen and weapon manufacturer ,but in these days when gassoline's price soars,US government benefits a lot too.The government can hold down the crude oil's price by controlling Irap's oil rigs. So maybe this is the real reason why US dont want to withdraw from Iraq.You should know the government is not stupid.

The oil's price soars just mean if US give up the oil in Iraq,the price will rise even higher.And this stimulates the US to stay longer in Iraq. As to the Contractor,I honestly was not familiar the business,but I believe if any foreign company will exploit the oil in Iraq,it should have the permission from US,right? China,Russia and even some European countries who disagree with America in the war dont get the pie. You say "the other countries",can you list the countries's name and how much percent did they get?I guess its probably England,Neitherlands,am I right?

lilash2, thank you for sharing. Your husband and family are in my prayers. I hope that soon enough he will be back home. =)

I hope your wish turns true soon. I like the US marines,they were allies of China in WWII when we were both opposing Japanese. And I respect US soldiers very well,they are really brave and patriotic. However I hope US will never war upon China.

Yes I too have friends in the Marines, but my hubby is in the Army!!! And I thank you for wanting my wish to come true! I am to find out this week when he comes home, and I can't wait. Mainly cause he needs to meet his baby girl, I had her 4 months after he deployed, and now all I want is for him to get home and be with her. And then for my son too, everyday he asks for daddy and goes to our piano and will sit there waiting for daddy (my husband loves playing the piano). But I know he will be home someday!!!

I don't disagree with you at all Fred. And I don't think this was is simple by any means. It was well thought out by our government, and especially by the man who pushed to get us over there in a hurry. We are there for many reasons other than to topple Sadams regime and restore "peace". I don't know if Iraq has experienced "peace" in a long time so maybe this is why there is so much horror. People have forgotten what it truly feel like to walk down the street and not worry about snipers. We are there for oil, for control, for creating an ally in the mideast. And I also believe we are there for Pride (Post 911). Don't get me wrong. I am proud of my country and what we represent. I support my country. I just think this was a really bad mistake to begin with. And it's finally showing. Yes the media tends to show the negative and give a view of the horrors there. But if things are so great over there and many places are doing fine, why do we NEED to STAY any longer????? Let them figure it out themselves. I have issues with healtcare in this country. My country. I would like to see even just a FRACTION of the money spent on this unending war to be put into healthcare reform. Sorry, I feel very strongly about this and it's hard for me not to get angry at the circumstances.

I agrea, there should always be debate and discussion. NEVER should we just lay down and not question anything. It is people talking that will keep the world together and keep people understanding each other. Even if we don't agrea, we should always be talking.

You surely can go to the war and US government can last the war for as many years as it wishes. And if America believes this war is important,and it deserves the loss,its very right to go on. But you should allow people to argue,to make the wise desicion at last.right?

I agree with you about supporting our troops. I have a lot of friends in the military as well and I always have them in my prayers. It's a shame how many times they have had to go back to Iraq because I can see how hard the toll is taking on them and their families. It's really important that they know that we do support them because back in the day when our service members returned from the Vietnam war it was really tough on them.

"amarican forces also doing wrong with the public of that country they realy therat them and also beat them including gental men children. i dont know that what is their fault? women and child an old men they did not do any thing and alos doing wronmg with them" Be carefull there, some of the forces you are talking about are friends of mine and you are laying some very heavy and unfounded charges on them. The u.s. soldies do not randomly beat innocent people and to say this is an insult and an outright lie and only serves to show how ignorant you are and how twisted and inacurate the news reports you see are, I suggest you watch our mouth in the future buddy.

I think US has been using iraq to test their weapons. Besides that, they want the oil source which Iraq has. Because in US they don't have source of oil. Without oil, how machine works?