Should the U.S. Pull Out of Iraq Now?

[Dave Sund]

Now, meaning, as soon as logistically possible. (i.e.: it's going to take a few weeks to get them all out safely.)

[Dave Sund]

1. The Iraqis want us out

I realized this last week, as I saw the protests on the news. The peaceful Iraqi citizens were saying, get out, let us run our own lives, and bring Saddam to justice.

It will do nothing but worsen the situation the longer we stay there. We get out now, perhaps they can be a sovereign democratic society.

[signmike]

2. Except now meaning RIGHT NOW.

Tonight. Drop the rifles and RUN!

[Dave Sund]

5. Of course

we would like them to leave ASAP, but we have to be realistic. We can't move over 150,000 troops overnight.

[wtmusic]

3. Now. Before one more American dies.

Before one more Iraqi dies by an American bullet. We have no right to be there and never should have gone. Any violence which follows are departure will be much shorter and milder than if we stay.

[TahitiNut]

4. There has NEVER been any assurance that a single day or a single ...

... death would yield any kind of better result than an immediate and total withdrawal, let alone sufficiently 'better' to be worth the cost. It's pig-in-a-poke politics - a con game by criminals.

[libodem]

6. yesterday

[mikelewis]

7. I would sign up as a truck driver and go to Iraq to help them pack...

if they agreed to pull out. They won't of course so I'm not going to stop by my recruiters office anytime soon.

[BrewerJohn]

8. Yes. The "stay and clean up our mess" view

presupposes that the neocons in power have any such honorable intentions. They do not. It's all about their interests, not the Iraqis'. Every day we remain there is a crime compounded.