What Middle East War Did You, Would You, Support?

[onehandle]

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	I supported the Afghanistan War.
	2 (33%)
	I supported the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
	0 (0%)
	I supported the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars, and I would support a War on Iran.
	0 (0%)
	I supported none of the above.
	4 (67%)
	0 DU members did not wish to select any of the options provided.
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[Fresh_Start]

1. I supported neither.

I knew Iraq was bullshit.
I realized that we had to respond to 9/11 but thought the response should have been against Al Queda camps and not the Afghani peoples.

[LynneSin]

4. Exactly

we so messed up both of those wars instead and too many lives were lost.

[Hell Hath No Fury]

2. None of them --

were worth single American/Afghani/Iraqi life.

[LynneSin]

3. I believed something had to be done with Afghanistan

However, it got totally fucked up by the Bush Administration.

We knew the terrorists were rooted in Afghanistan and yet we made it second fiddle to Iraq.

Our mission should have been similiar to what we did in the former Yugoslavia countries - There we had a plan, pretty much stuck to it and then get out as soon as possible. Oh and make sure we had the support of the UN and our allies to boot. Our action there was 20 years ago and today many of those countries are blossoming.

We had no plan with Afghanistan, we spread ourselves thin by starting a 2nd war in Iraq and there was never an exit strategy.

[onehandle]

7. Exactly right. nt

[hifiguy]

8. I expected the Afghan war to last six months.

I should have known better and never would have supported it otherwise.

[LynneSin]

12. I figured a year tops

You think of some of the past military inventions the US has been involved in since Vietnam and it seemed our country was good at 'getting in, getting it done & getting out'. Panama was only about 6 months, Grenada lasted only a few months, 1st gulf war was done within a year, Most of the Yugoslavia ones were less than 2 years, even Somalia was about 2 years. And the thing about these 'wars/police actions/internventions' is that we were in quickly got the job done and perhaps stuck around for a few to make sure the changes took place.

On paper I supported the reasons for Aghanistan although another poster said it better - it wasn't Aghanistan but Al Qaeda. But the thing that worried me was remembering how the Soviet Union invaded the country a few decades earlier and spent close to 10 years but achieved nothing (and ironically Afghanis were supplied with US miliary equipment and training and may of those soldiers were the pre-cursor to Al-Qaeda and the Taliban).

To me ultimately these wars turned out to be nothing more than a way to give money to defense contractors and private defense groups like Blackwater.

I guess today if you asked me if I would support another war like the one we have in Afghanistan I would have to say no. Military action should always be the last resort effort and then only done when we have a strong plan, goals and exit strategy.

[Posteritatis]

9. Yep. (nt)

[begin_within]

5. I don't support war, unless we are attacked and it's to defend ourselves.

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

6. "America does not go abroad in search of monsters to destroy." John Quincy Adams

Too bad that axiom was never observed by this country.

[CherokeeDem]

10. I supported...

going after Al Queda immediately following 9-11 in Afghanistan, but nothing else. If they had finished what they started and not interrupted that mission to invade Iraq, it would have been fine. I would have preferred that going after them had been a police action, handled by the FBI and international police agencies. As we have seen in Europe and here, most terrorists are caught via the police, not via the military. Of course, there is SEAL Team Six...

[HappyMe]

11. The terrorists were based

in Afghanistan, so something had to be done there. However, I think the shrub had no clear plan for it at all.

[JoeyT]

13. I only voted the way I did

because that option looked so lonely, and I knew (Or at least I hope) no one on here was going to seriously vote for it.

I supported none of the above.