What "moral obligation" do we have to Iraq? [View All]

[kentuck]

I've heard many say that since we created the mess in Iraq, we have a "moral obligation" to clean it up? We invaded that country under false pretenses and set up a divisive Shiite puppet government. Hundreds of thousands have died. Last I saw, we had lost about 4000 Americans with tens of thousands severely wounded for life and we have spent over $600 billion dollars - actually probably closer to a $ trillion dollars.

So how long do we have this "moral obligation"? For a hundred years, as John McCain has suggested? They say if we get out, the place will fall apart or fall into the hands of Iran?

Do we have a "moral obligation" to continue our occupation of a country we should not be in, in the first place? Our moral obligation was not to invade that country. Our moral obligation is to withdraw immediately and to assist from outside in any way that we can. That country deserves sovereignty as much as any other country, including our own. It is not moral to continue the occupation.

The worst scenarios are mostly excuses from those that made the initial blunder of invading that country. The entire Middle East will explode if we leave. Iran will occupy the vacuum. The terrorists can claim they defeated America. These are all excuses by immoral people.