Reply #25: You know what I'm talking about. [View All]

[LoZoccolo]

They've threatened to start a civil war whether we're there or not. If we left it'd be rule of the strong and yes, I believe it would be worse. I don't like what's happening there now either and never wanted to go there if we didn't have to. That's why this is a quagmire. But I don't like this "let's leave and at least it won't be our fault" sentiment I've seen a little bit of here (I'm not accusing you of that). One thing that'd almost definately happen is that any Iraqi's that were seen as helping us could get attacked - that's a consequence of us being there already, and we need to take responsibility for it by protecting them. This whole thing is not as simple as people make it out to be, and the reason I take the positions I do is because I care about the Iraqis. I don't have an interest in Halliburton or the oil industry or anything like that, and I don't care if we never see a penny of the reconstruction come back to us.