No threat to us = No reason for War.

March 30th of 2003. This was the day that President George W. Bush declared war on Iraq without the constitutionally required declaration of war by Congress. The reason given to us and to the world was that Saddam Hussein's regime had ongoing programs to produce biological, chemical and nuclear weapons, known as weapons of mass destruction. Five years later, the search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq has long ended, and nothing was found. It is despicable that we went to war so rashly, without sound intelligence reports. However, it is even worse that the U.S. are still in Iraq, with no plans of withdrawal.
Since then, the war has become the single greatest threat to our national security. Most recently this was proved when Russia invaded its neighboring country, Georgia. Whether Russia was justified in attacking Georgia or not, we heard President Bush admit that it would be impossible for the United States to intervene due to a lack of available troops. If Russia had attacked us, would we have no means of defending ourselves because all of our troops are fighting a war in Iraq?
Due to the war, our reputation with the rest of the world has sunk to new record lows. With rising economic and social tensions in China, Russia and Iran, it is imperative that we pull out of Iraq now, in order for us both to have a platform to build diplomatic relations, and to defend ourselves against an inevitable attack.
The war has also spurred great human, and economic cost. To this day, we have lost 4,168 American soldiers, all of whom have husbands, wives, children and families of their own. Financially, the U.S. went from having a surplus of money to having a deficit by spending over a trillion dollars on the war.
There are those who claim that weapons of mass destruction were not really the reason for going into Iraq; it was to free the Iraqi people from their brutal dictator, Saddam Hussein. However, we have long since caught Hussein and executed him. Since that day, the Iraqi people have had the opportunity to forge a democratic society and to maintain peace in their country. Contrary to our desires, they have not chosen to implement democracy, nor are they moving in the direction of one. Instead, the Iraqi people have asked us to leave.
The United States, however, has taken a different course of action. We increased our troop presence and are currently building an embassy in Iraq the size of the Vatican. The Iraqi people justifiably turned to violent action in order to remove us from Iraq. It is time that we listened to their wishes, and just came home. As congressman Ron Paul put it, “we don’t understand the irrationality of Middle-Eastern politics… what would we say if China was doing this [building an embassy] in our country?”
In other words, we may not agree with Iraqi choices or politics, but it is their country, not ours. The Iraqi people have the right to form their own society, as do we, and we have no business controlling it. That means that our only option is to withdraw all troops from Iraq, along with the 2,500,000 American troops located in over 700 military bases across the globe.
All it takes is to follow the advice of our founding fathers by following a non-interventionalist foreign policy, refrain from nation building, and finally remove our troops from Iraq, as we have already found out that they are no threat to us, and we have no right to decide their political and social course.