POLL: How many more years will our soldiers be dying in Iraq?

[Philosoraptor]

I welcome any input.

[sutz12]

1. Looks like 2009 to me.

:shrug:

[NC_Nurse]

2. Too many.

It's already been too many. What a tragedy this whole AVOIDABLE war is. I'm so disgusted with our
"leadership".

[demnan]

3. I said 5 years

Based on politics alone. The next President will be running for reelection and political motivation will cause them to remove the troops.

Sorry.

[Fire Walk With Me]

4. Aren't there now 15 permanent US military bases in Iraq?

Got to watch over the oil, and never stop doing so.

[Philosoraptor]

5. bing west (?) of the Atlantic says this is a lo-o-o-o-o-o-ong war, with emphasis

on cspan just now.

[havocmom]

6. Long before the invasion, and just before the Patriot Act first passed

I had a vision of Iraq as a US Penal Colony.

That vision has not changed at all over the years. I can still see it happening and I weep for my people.

[Tesha]

14. KInd of like "Blade Runner", but less rainy... (NT)

"I only do eyes..."

Tesha

[Beelzebud]

7. 10+ Because America's political leadership are Pro-Corporate war mongers.

And there is just too much money to be made from Iraqi oil to resist.

[proud2BlibKansan]

8. Beyond my lifetime

[Lerkfish]

9. exactly. Have we left Korea yet?

[donco6]

10. Follow their logic:

"We're fighting a war"

"We have to support the troops"

"You can't cut funding and support the troops"

Therefore, you can't EVER cut funding. Therefore there will ALWAYS be troops there.

[Virginia Dare]

11. If this thing goes much more beyond two years...

or in the likelihood that it's expanded, as the middle east is very close to completely conflagrating, we'll need to institute a draft, then all bets are off.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

12. Until the politicians bankrupt the country "protecting" the troops.

[mmonk]

13. For as many years as our leaders profit.

[mmonk]

15. I don't need your civil war

it feeds the rich while it buries the poor

-Guns & Roses