The War in Iraq was a Horrible Mistake

The war in Iraq was a horrible tragic mistake that has cost this country billions of dollars and thousands of young Americans lives and even more Iraqis lives. It is an not a winnable war and we should get out of there as fast as possible. The problem is we are not just at war with Iraq, but people from all the surrounding middle east countries as well. Insurgents are pouring across the borders daily ready to die for the jihad. There's no way to even identify these people as combatants until they strap explosives to themselves and blow up a government building or local market. We simply can not win against that and its the bottom line. This whole country was lied to by the Bush administration, completely misled into a place we didn't need to go. Sure Saddam was a bad guy, he deserved be brought to justice. But he did not have weapons of mass destruction and that my friends was the reason we went to war. Just think how many other nut cases are running other countries and I don't see us going to war with them. Whatever the true motives behind the war, it should have never been started. The sad truth is the country is descending into civil war. The ones that commit the suicide bomb attacks will never give up either. It has the potential to be a long drawn out war with devastating consequences. We can only hope to arm the Iraqi government with some serious weapons to defend themselves and wish them the best of luck at this point. If I could talk to the people that are committing these acts I'd say "Look, we as Americans, a lot of us didn't even want this war to happen, we were lied to, completely misled and pulled into this war against our will, and we just simply want the fighting to end." I have friends over there, we all have friends or family over in Iraq. Something needs to be done and thats the bottom line. We didn't even have UN backing, we went against the UN with our own "coalition of the willing".It was completely absurd and now the "coalition of the willing" doesn't seem to be so willing anymore. President Bush should have been impeached and thrown out of office. Bill Clinton lied under oath in the court of law. George W. Bush lied to a nation of millions of people. It just seems like things are getting worse and worse over there and its a terrible situation for our country to be in.

21,500 more troops is not going to do a thing, but kill more Americans and innocent Iraqis. Killing the Insurgents will do nothing. These terrorist, they don't care about death, they don't care about anything but killing for their cause. There is nothing we can do but negotiate. The Bush administration says "We will not negotiate with terrorist." Well when are we going to start? How many people have to die before we realize that is our only option? I'm absolutely positive their demands are outrageous, but there has got to be a middle ground. Some kind of agreement or a series of agreements we can come to. I'm by no means saying we should completely give in to them, only saying it doesn't have to be this bad. It's just going to get worse then it already is with no end in sight. The government keeps pushing back the date and pushing back the date for the pull out of our troops. By the time 2009 rolls around, we'll be in Iraq until 2012 with no timetable for our troops to come home. Call me pessimistic but it is no easy task to completely level a country with bombs, take down a government and rebuild it while a civil war is going on with suicide bombers blowing up government offices and police stations. Some of them even join the Iraqi army, or the police force and create havoc from within.

As the senate debates the war in Iraq, 4 more marines were killed in Iraq, raising the death toll to 3,114 and car bombs killed 43 more Iraqis across the country. Six helicopters have been shot down since January 20th, prompting the U.S to review its flight plan. Four days ago, a truck that the owners of a market thought was carrying food was actually loaded with explosives and killed over 100 people. Headlines like this everyday detail the bloodshed, the world as a whole views America in a different light because of this war. They whole world knows we made a grave mistake, the only question is now how do we make it right and is that even a feasible possibility?