If you were the President, how would you defeat the insurgency in Iraq?

Question

What things would you do?
Who would you have do it?

Answer 1

I would show no mercy and I would take prisoners only under very specific circumstances. War is a nasty business folks.

It would be a massive hunting exercise and special forces would play a critical role. I would also ignore the ridiculous rants of anti-American types, especially those from that joke they call the U.N.

I would not be running a popularity contest. History would be the best judge of whether my decision was correct, not political hacks and others with ulterior motives.

Answer 2

The "insurgency" is fighting against the occupation, just like if the USA was occupied, there won't be peace until the occupiers leave.

That would leave three parts of iraq that don't want to be together, so give them their wish - split it up, the Kurds, the Sunnis, and the Shias

of course, There is more to it than that, America's foreign policy has made many people hate the USA ( or at least it's policies).
Some of the "insurgents" have travelled from other countries just to get the chance of fighting against the USA, that will not change until the USA does.

Answer 3

If I were the President, there would be no insurgency in Iraq, as there would be no US troops there either against whom the insurgents fight.
I would not start illegal wars and occupy foreign countries at will, just because they have oil. And I would not drive my country into mounting debts either, just to please the oil and armament industries.
I would be a decent President, maybe the first ever, and lead the country and the world into an era of peace, prosperity and progress.

Answer 4

Rain death and distruction of a scale and totallity sufficient to force the population to reconsider the rationality of their actions. The insurgency could not survive without the active consent of the population.

I would task the airforce with this mission.

Answer 5

I'd have the Insurgents arrested and used as Target Practice.

Answer 6

Basically what we are doing,the insurgents are dieing fast,how long do you think they can keep it up.We have more supplies ,guns ,ammo and troops than they can ever get.It's a backyard war against a super power,be real.

Answer 7

Paul Wolfowitz, who fashioned the phony intellectual underpinnings of this catastrophe, told us that Iraqi oil revenues would cover the cost of reconstruction. He was as wrong about that as the president was about the weapons of mass destruction. (And as wrong as Dick Cheney was last June when he said the insurgency was in its last throes.). Here are the facts: The war so recklessly launched by the amateurs in the Bush White House has already taken scores of thousands of lives, and will ultimately cost the United States $1 trillion to $2 trillion. No one has been held accountable for this. While Mr. Bush's approval ratings are low, the public has been largely indifferent to the profound suffering in Iraq. This is primarily for two reasons: Because most Americans have no immediate personal stake in the war, and because the administration and the news media keep the worst of the suffering at a safe distance from the U.S. population.
The killing of American troops is usually kissed off with a paragraph or two in the major papers, and a sentence or two, at best, on national newscasts.
(Imagine if someone in your office, sitting at a desk across from you, were suddenly blown to bits, splattering you with his or her blood. You wouldn't get over it for the rest of your life. This is what happens to the Americans and other racist crusaders on daily basis in Iraq.)
The 250,000 of Iraqis who are killed - including babies and children who are shot to death, blown up, or incinerated - remain completely unknown to the American public. So not only is there very little empathy for the suffering of Iraqis, there is virtually no sense among ordinary Americans of a shared responsibility for that suffering. Despite the frequently expressed fantasies expressed by President Bush and some of the leading politicians of both parties, the idea of a U.S. victory in Iraq is an illusion. The nightmarish violence is rising, not receding. Iraq is not being pacified. A suicide bomber blew himself up in a bustling market in Basra over the weekend, killing 27 and wounding scores. On Sunday, 20 people were stopped and pulled from their vehicles on a highway near Baquba and shot to death.
John Burns, writing in yesterday's New York Times, told us: "The death toll in one of the most grisly recent attacks, in the village of Hadid, near the Diyala provincial capital of Baquba, rose to 17 on Tuesday when the police delivered nine severed heads to the Baquba morgue in the fruit boxes in which they were found in the village."
Eight other heads had previously been found.
Instead of beginning to pull our troops out of Iraq, we are sending more in. The permanent Iraqi government, which was supposed to be the answer to everybody's prayers, is a study in haplessness. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, Al Qaeda's man in Iraq, remains at large. (As does Osama bin Laden, somewhere in Pakistan.)
As was the case with Vietnam, the war in Iraq is a fool's errand. There is no clear mission for American troops in Iraq. No one can really say what the dead have died for. And yet the dying continues.
Military commanders in the field in Iraq admit in private reports to the Pentagon the war "is lost" and that the U.S. military is unable to stem the mounting violence killing 1,000 Iraqi civilians a month. Even worse, they report the massacre of Iraqi civilians at Haditha is "just the tip of the iceberg" with overstressed, out-of-control Americans soldiers pushed beyond the breaking point both physically and mentally. "We are in trouble in Iraq," says retired army general Barry McCaffrey. "Our forces can't sustain this pace, and I'm afraid the American people are walking away from this war."

Answer 8

We most likely cant do it.
But thats not why we are there.
We are there to enable the iraqi people to stop the insurgency.
They are the only ones who can.
And im not totally sure if they even want to.

Answer 9

option one: pull the troops and nuke the place
" two: turn loose the Kurds
" three: buy 'em off, gotta be cheaper than what we're
doing now
" four: destroy the food supply and let them rot

Answer 10

make capturing Osama bin Laden our priority,, dead or alive,, build a wooden horse around him, send into the middle of Baghdad for a jihad suicide bombers lollapalooza