"I think this is a difficult question. Personally, I would like to say "get out of there"... I would have liked to have the troops withdrawn years ago. However, now that they are there and we've dabbled in the "let's form a democracy" business, it's difficult to say what would happen if we pulled them out now. It's quite obvious that there are still several instabilities, and a withdrawl now might ruin any ounce of progress we have achieved. Unfortunately, I think that past record shows that our involvement in foreign affairs tends to have some pretty negative consequences anyway, so it's difficult.
I think a large portion of the population no longer feels attached to this issue. It's just something that we're doing-- we hear about it everyday and we know that it's going on, so it becomes easy to ignore. "

"I think that's the problem. I am not a democrat or a republican. I am just a person with opinions. Furthermore, I think it's absolutely ridiculous to have someone with a unique or opposing opinion leave your forum. Wouldn't that make for such a boring discussion? I mean, really, who would you pick on? Each other?"

"I think that's the furthest thing from our minds! "

"I also wanted to respond to the Bush Jr. in the White House comment. I think that regardless of who was elected President, our involvement in Iraq was imminent after 9/11. American's wanted a response. There was an emptiness that needed to be filled, and the overwhelming majorit wanted something to happen in response. Although now, we are divided on withdrawl, I think that the initial involvement would have happened regardless of who was in office. "

"That is kinda of a freaky and disturbing thought that i might not post for a while. That we would want to attack someone simply for the fact that we wanted to hit somethign is disturbing...."

"I don't think that we wanted to attack for no reason, or simply to "hit something". We had been attacked. In that moment, immediately following the WTC incident, people wanted some sort of retribution. I think many people would have been even more critical of the Bush Administration had they chosen to do nothing. While Iraq may not have been the correct target (considering what we know at this point), something needed to happen in order to show the world that we would not allow ourselves to be vulnerable anymore. "

"This is no longer a thread about some modicum of intelligent discourse and debate, so I'm out. "