Reply #25: We will leave Iraq exactly as we left Vietnam on April 30, 1975 [View All]

[robertpaulsen]

By cramming as many people as we can into the remaining helicopters and hoping they don't crash as we flee the country. This is not how I want to see it all go down, I voted that we should leave now. But we won't. And every day we stay in Iraq, we just make the situation worse. There isn't a prayer that we will bring our troops home until 2005 at the earliest under President Kerry. But even then, will the situation in Iraq be resolved? Of course not. I believe it will take another 20 years for the situation to be truly resolved, taking in all the variables into account that have been shaken up by the opening of this Pandora's Box. Anyone with half a brain knows that the US cannot solve their problems unilaterally, i.e. the "Coalition of the Willing". But does anyone here really believe that the insurgents will wither away once the UN takes control of the efforts to keep the peace? They hate the UN because they associate them as being tools of the US; America with an international face. Remember what they did to the UN building in Baghdad last August, killing 17 including de Meillo, Brazil's envoy? We're only going to see events like that on a greater scale with more frequency until every last vestige of this American-led occupying force has left Iraq. It's not a question of if, but when. We've already lost. The only question is how many have to die before we accept it and leave. Getting back to the Vietnam comparison, my guess is that unfortunately, just like in Vietnam, American policy makers both Democratic and Republican will continue the quagmire longer rather than end it sooner.