Bush Speaks Locally

Worldwise, I honestly do believe things are getting better in Iraq. Whereas in the past we were hearing of bomb blast almost daily now they are down to a few per month. Are things great in Iraq? No and they probably won't be for some time to come! I don't think we have even reached the level of the quality of life pre-US invaision which was terrible at best under their former "leader". I believe great strides have been taken in the last few months to get Iraq moving in the right direction and maybe soon we actually will see more and more of our troops coming home and then when all is said and done we'll just have a shell force over there to help protect the peace as we do in other countries like Germany and Korea.

I honestly believe we are making progress in Iraq. I know it's slow progress, and people are dieing, but it will get better. Progress only seemed so much faster in Afghanistan because the place was a complete $hithole. When a country hits rock bottom, there's nowhere to go but up. In Iraq, the war hurt the country and it will take time to build it into a solid nation.

no I do not feel any real progress is being made, and no government will admit when they are failing so why would bush's admin be different.

I don't know all that is going on, but I have heard reports on how the people feel safer now..

We have progressed so far in Iraq that we are getting involved in their own civil war. The reason there isn't so many bombings is becasuse we are paying off former terrorsits and Al-Queda members to give us information. Is this OK? (And they are having soldiers - the same soldiers that these people were trying to kill - paying these former terrorists!) I don't think so. We didn't have a legitimate reason to invade Iraq in the first place, and the longer we stay the more money it costs, the more lives it costs, and the more distant we become with our foreign allies. This war is costing more than money and lives, it is costing the US it's reputation. Al-Queda wasn't there before we invaded, and our fight on terror has become a defensive position. We sit in Iraq for fear that once we live it will be overtaken by Al-Queda. (In reality, it will probably be involved in a civil war for quite some time.) We need to be concerned about Al-Queda, and get out of Iraq.