War in Iraq

Don't get too worried about this post. Yes it is somewhat political in nature, but I promise not to do it often. Please keep in mind that I did absolutely no research on this at all and that it is entirely based on what I have heard and, obviously, my own opinion.

With election day around the corner, it's impossible to avoid hearing the republicans bashing the democrats for bashing the republicans regarding the war in Iraq. The deomcrats feel we are wasting time, money, and - more importantly - lives fighting a seemingly unending war. A civil war is imminent and I don't know who would argue against it.

The republicans are somewhat in agreement, though they won't admit it. Their point is that the democrats don't have a plan to remediate what the republicans screwed up.

At first glance, pulling our troops out would seem like a great idea; however, we started this mess, so shouldn't we stick around to help clean it up?

It's been on odd war in the first place. The wholc world knows George W. was just looking for an excuse to go after Saddam and in the inaccurate intelligence (sort of an oxymoron, isn't it?) he found that excuse. That is not to say Sadaam should have stayed in power, but we should not justify our actions with a lie. The world is a much better place without Saddam in power, but are the lives of the Iraqis any better? How many of them have died innocently? When will the threat of civil war, or car bombings, of suicide bombers, of hunger, of death be reduced to levels lower than when Saddam's regime ruled?

Maybe overl human rights are better, arguably, but now what? No one seems to know what to do and in the meantime, hundreds of innocent people are dying.