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| Yes | 38% | 294 votes | Total: 783 votes | |
| No | 62% | 489 votes |
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by V. Kumar
Once you are in a war, can you run away from it? If you think you can, I suggest that you take a whole new course in the history of the world. You can prevent war, but no...read more
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The US should continue to participate in the Iraq war. There are a fair number of reasons that get plenty of air time in the press so I won't rehash those. Instead I'll profer...read more
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by B. L. Babb
I was going through boxes of things I had moved across this country with over a year ago and came across a VHS tape entitled "Voices That Care." This is a video showing the mak...read more
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Hmm. Should we or should we not stay in Iraq. As someone who has served in the military and understands what the men and women that make daily sacrifices to serve this c...read more
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by Paul Burns
The war in Iraq is just one part of the differences between the world's peoples which are manifested by violence. There is no question that we have to be involved in every ar...read more
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The US has no choice but to continue in the war. To pull out now would be suicide. Yes, it's taking a while to get the Iraqis ready to run their own government, maybe they nev...read more
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By entering into a war with Iraq in 2003 the United States were making a lasting commitment to the Iraqi people and they can not go back on this commitment whilst there is a cha...read more
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by D.G. Wells
The Iraq war is a hotly debated topic and one that definitely needs to be reevaluated, not by the government, but by the public itself. A statistic that I found completely unac...read more
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by Nobody
The War in Iraq is not a pointless one. The world's top military experts all agree we should stay (and they are much more credible than the standard, ill-informed armchair patr...read more
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Being one who believes in always finishing what I start, leads me to believe that the US should continue to participate in the War in Iraq. It is my opinion, that to leave any ...read more
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It is quite probable that many Americans are laboring under the optimistic assumption that, if Barack Obama becomes President, the US will make a speedy exit from Iraq; and the ...read more
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The question about the United States' continued involvement in Iraq needs to be seen in its proper context. The damage has been done in Iraq, the country is widely considered a...read more
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by Ebey Soman
Here is a simple and the most Coherent reason Why United States must continue to do what it has to do to ensure peace, such as through Iraq War or Afghan War... We outlined a si...read more
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by Stephen Bate
I believe that the US has a duty to continue to participate in the War and needs to exhibit a sense of conscience in doing so. I believe this for two main reasons, one fairly fl...read more
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Our president started this war in Iraq our nation can not just pack up and run away leaving hundreds of thousands left out for slaughter in and all out civil war. President Bush...read more
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A World Riddled With War I believe the experts who say the world will be more riddled with war over the next ten years, are absolutely right. I am in the military, the...read more
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You know, all of the anti-war fanatics and impatient patriots are right. This war has gone to far and it should end by pulling the plug on all of the U.S. Armed Forces. But th...read more
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Why of course the people of the United States should continue the War in Iraq. 'If we do not fight them there we will have to fight them here." We must "Stay the Course." W...read more
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The War in Iraq has to continue, we have no choice. We now have to protect our homeland. We will always have to protect our homeland until justice is found. Due to a puppeteer p...read more
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by Uncle Bob
Should the US continue to participate in the War in Iraq? Wrong question. Better to ask, are hostilities ("the War") in Iraq part of a broader war against Islamic terrorists...read more
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by Vicki Brown
Dear Mr. President, Bring our troops home now. NOW Right now, as fast as is humanly possible. I believe, at least I'd like to, that you were well intentioned when you sent ou...read more
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Participating in this endless war in Iraq is an absolute farce for the US military. One battle strings into another, while endless sectarian strife tears the country apart, and...read more
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The War in Iraq is ridiculous. Every day American soldiers as well as Iraqi civilians are dying, all because of a war that was started for no good reason. I don't believe in w...read more
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by Jessica Ward
A war no one wanted or needed-American bleeds If I had the ability to change one event in recent history, it would've been sending our troops to Iraq. Our leaders said it was...read more
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by Dwayne Innis
What sense does it make for the U.S. to be involved in Iraq in the first place? According to most media accounts, the entire reason for having invaded Iraq was to search for an...read more
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Here are the choices: Pick up and LEAVE: "Bye, now! Sorry we, um, destabilized your country. Let us know if there's anything we can do....." Yep, we've made a mess. ...read more
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by Robert Frank
War Without a Plan Webster defines War as "a struggle or competition between opposing forces for a particular end". For the last 4 years we have been marred in a War in Iraq ...read more
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The fact that more American troops have been killed in Iraq then the deaths during the September 11 terrorist attacks should be ringing alarms bells. Lets have a bit of realit...read more
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by Kyle Allen
There is only one war taking place in the nation of Iraq right now. That war is a civil war between rival factions of Shi'ite and Sunni militias struggling for control of their ...read more
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If we forget why the US was misled into invading Iraq, which launched the war, we must not forget that the war was over the day that GW Bush declared "Mission Accomplished." Fro...read more
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We should never have been there in the first place. The catalyzing factors that put us there have since been proved to be wrong, and about the only things keeping us there are ...read more
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President Bush has said in his speeches that the war in Iraq is a generational war, which means our troops would have to be there for 30 years or more, a generation being 15 yea...read more
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What war? Article 1, Section 8 of the United States Constitution grants Congress the exclusive responsibility, privilege and duty to declare war. The United States Congress ...read more
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by Lucy Rucker
Should the US continue to participate in the War in Iraq? No, it is time for the United States to back off from the war in Iraq. We all know why we went to Iraq. It was not f...read more
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Top American brass admit that the war cannot be won militarily, so what are we doing there? There is nothing to be gained by continuing a war that nobody understands the purpos...read more
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The Iraq war is now a quagmire that has shaped international politics in a new fashion. There are multiple reasons we should not continue this absurd war. 1] Money - The US ha...read more
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Should American soldiers be killed in a stalemate? I think not, because I care for our boys and girls in uniform! The situation in Iraq resembles a stalemate. Even President Bus...read more
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I'm tired of Iraq and I don't feel like going any more. I'm an American and like things done right and done quickly! I don't want someone telling me that I have to wait more ...read more
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by Bill Whitney
The United States of America should definitely not continue to participate in the War in Iraq. The United States, England, Canada, or any other country that has troops over the...read more
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The U.S. should not continue to participate in the War in Iraq. I initially supported the war in Iraq based on intelligence that didn't exist, the feeling that Hussein should h...read more
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