Each Presidential candidate has different views on how soon the United States should leave Iraq.

Barack Obama favors a phased withdrawal of troops over 16 months.

What does Hillary Clinton favor?

Your guess is as good as mine. She's been waffling on the question.

John McCain stated that being in Iraq for 100 years is 'fine with him'.

The phased withdrawal concept is nothing new. Bush Jr. and Tony Blair proposed it in 2006.

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Report_Bush_Blair_to_announce_phased_0522.html

What do you think?

Obama's right, Hilary needs to be shot, McCain won't live long enough to see the elewction he's so old

its all a crock of s**t

Um, I don't like Hillary either, but I don't think I'd advocate that as a solution.

Nothing will be achieved in Iraq, its obviously about oil.

Loss of money and innocent peoples lives (American and Iraqi) is all that will be accomplished.

i still think the presidential election should be done the same way as jury duty. you get a letter in the mail, your president for a month and get paid 5 dollars a day........


that should weed out the the ones that just want the money

We are preventing a civil war right now.

We are still capturing or killing wannabe terrroist (non Iraqi)
that may have ended up in the US.

3 years tops

Are we preventing a civil war, or is our very presence creating unrest, which prolongs the conflict?

Why not? It sounds good to me!

On the serious side, I think we will be in Iraq for ten years.

Hear Hear.

This is exactly how I feel. Watch the whole thing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rw2nkoGLhrE

(Just copy and paste)

Awesome, huh!?

The only choices are give it some more time or let the civil war begin. And Islamic fighters from everywhere will join in the conflict.

As to pro longing the conflict no one knows whether or not a civil war will cause a regional conflict so the conflict may still be pro longed if we leave. I could even see a situation where Israel would be attacked from Iraq. What would that mean for the US........

So how much time are we going to give the Iraqis before they're able to take control of their own country?

The dilemma the Bush Administration is giving us is:

If we ever leave Iraq, there could be a civil war that breaks out.

Therefore we have to stay there forever to keep a civil war from happening.

We can't ever leave.

Do you see the twisted logic in that?

The true dilemma question that the next president must attempt to ascertain is whether or not a civil war will lead to a regional conflict with far more dangerous consequences for the US when our troops leave. Bush has decided that it probably will. We are preventing a civil war right now in Iraq for that reason. Preventing the civil war limits the possibility of a regional conflict.

Why does everyone say its all about oil. We have been there since 03 and all gas prices have done is gone up. If we were getting oil they would be going down. At least if it was about oil I wouldn't be breaking the bank every time I fill my tank.

This is just my opinion...
Oil or not...that nut needed to be stopped. didn't we invade Kosovo for the same thing? The difference is one is a larger country and had the power to cause trouble.

Not sure how long it should take though

Did you know?

The US has deployed troops in Germany and Japan for 63 years, and Korea for 57. Might Iraq, in the end, require the same committment for freedom and democracy?

Can you imagine the consequences for our nation if we had of pulled out of Germany after five years? Perserverence paid off in the long run with E and W Germany
uniting on that incredible day when the Berlin wall came down without a major war.

Can you imagine what a current map of the world would look like and the number of wars that the US might have fought if we had pulled out of South Korea or Japan after five years?

And now we have a foothold in the Middle East - history teaches us that a society will choose freedom and democracy over anarchy but only if someone provides the inspiration and opportunities. The middle east is a breeding ground for terroism - just ignore them for a while and leave and you will see what happens!