by Suspicious Mind

Created on: April 21, 2009

Predicting the outcome of the war in Iraq is considered an open book, waiting for the end to be written. The situation in Iraq is unpredictable, complicated full of snags, bumps in the road and violence. While one could go on and on about different scenarios, what it boils down to is really quite simple. There will be no outcome. We will continue to be there, for as long as we keep our muscle there. We will be there like we are in Germany, Korea, Japan, and Kuwait. We will never leave.

Americans, and people all over the world were ecstatic over the election of Mr. Barack Hussein Obama. He promised to bring the troops home in six months. He promised to get us out of the war in Iraq. Since his inauguration, that promise has changed to "looking at it over the next 23 months". The few troops he takes out of Iraq, he will only shift to Afghanistan, to keep our large amount of troops in the region. We are building permanent military bases in Iraq, what would we do that for if we are leaving?

People argue that that this area is a bomb ready to go off at any time. Few realize however, that the US created many of these enemies. For the sake of the length of this article, only the most notable terrorist will be used as an example. The infamous Usama Bin Laden, alleged mastermind of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, The Pentagon, and the bombing of the USS Cole.

Few realize though that during the 1980's when the Russians were fighting against the Afghan people, the CIA was making Usama what he is today. We provided him and his people with weapons, and training and made them the resistance fighters that ultimately sent the Russians home to Russia. Once that was done, they were given free reign over Afghanistan until Bin Ladens strict Islamic beliefs caused him to refuse a contract that would allow an oil pipeline to be built across his country. It is ironic, that shortly after that refusal, and failed negotiations, Bin Laden allegedly launched the 9/11 attacks.

Now, this author wonders, how many people noticed, that I just ignored the fact that 9/11 had nothing to do with Iraq. Because it still seems like most Americans who support our presence in these countries forget that as well. The fact remains that the reason we are in Iraq to begin with was unfounded. If Iranian troops came here and invaded our country, blowing it up and killing our people, we would react in the same way as some of these "terrorists". Not to would be unpatriotic. I don't care if they say they are coming to liberate us from the totalitarian Obama administration or not. In the end, these people hate us now if they didn't before. Staying there only assures us of more terrorists.

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