Do we really need Baghdad?

[JohnR7]

I don't really understand this war. Maybe because I do not read up enough on it. But do we really need to take Baghdad. Or if we do, what is the hurry? We have the oil fields, we have cut Saddam off from his source of money. Why don't we just liberate the Kurds and the other ethnic groups that want to be free from Saddam and set them up as their own country?

Saddam has already lost control over half of what he had. Do we really need to take it all? Or if we do, is there really all that big of a hurry to get it away from him?

 

[cenimo]

We only need it in the sense that it is a strong tactical move to take it away from Hussein

 

[Chuck_Darwin]

The US odesn't want to have Iraq split up. Turkey and Iran would have a fit(not to mention lots of other countries). Of course winning the war is the easy part. What the heck you do with it all when you win is the real pickle. It would seem that the world at large doesn't view the coalition as liberators but as an imperialist army.

People need to remeber the Russian experience in Afganistan and in Grozny(sp?). Just because you have the tech/power to win a war doesn't mean that you win the people. In my opinion we are going to get creamed in the long run. We will win the war, our troops will perform excellently but the foreign policy that is directing it is misguided at best.