I'll pre-emptively strike your answer of "the insurgents" because why would Iraqis want us gone if we were doing anything to protect them from insurgents? They are the insurgents or they do not fear the insurgents... either way they want us out.
2006-06-20 13:42:47 · 21 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
The statistic is taken from a Brookings Institution poll from last month.
2006-06-20 13:58:01 · update #1
that would be el hefe..president bush.
2006-06-20 13:45:53 · answer #1 · answered by Kismet 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The people preventing it are the political and military leadership couple with the diplomatic corps that have the information that the public does not have in order to make the decision.
The timetable is set and the President has been clear. When the job is finished. It is like building a duplicate copy of the World Trade Center towers. You can not say we want the towers rebuilt by August 17, 2007--period. There are many varibles that may prevent it from being completed by the deadline. Weather, access to the building resources, labor resources, building permits, finances, etc. We don't always get what we want. We have to coordinate the resources.
The President can not set a specfic date. That is political bait for a trap.
Overall, the majority of Congress supported the war at the time the decision was made. Let us stand behind the decision and support the troops and get it done. Let history be the judge of the President and the merits of the war. I think the biggest problem is that we are dealing with a religious based society and government, and the US is not like that. There is no book tht tells us how to fix Iraq. We can not just pull up stakes and leave.
2006-06-20 22:09:33 · answer #2 · answered by atmjay 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Can you please post a link showing that the majority of Americans favor a timetable for withdrawal? I believe your statement to be - at best - inaccurate and - at worse - a lie. Besides, the American people do not decide military policy. Their elected representatives - the House of Representatives, the Senate and the President - do. It's what is called a Republic. And our elected representatives - mine AND yours - just voted 86-13 AGAINST an arbitrary timetable. That number includes a whole lot of Democrats, buddy.
Can you please post a link to your poll by the Brookings Institute? Every Iraqi I have ever talked to wants us to stay until the job is complete and is afraid that we will leave before the job is finished. If this happens, total chaos will ensue in that nation.
As far as "insurgents" go, they are fighters from countries other than Iraq. 95% of them come from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria, Iran ... just about every country except Iraq. My unit escorted "insurgents" as they were being moved about Baghdad. Most spoke English very well and would freely tell you that most of the "insurgents" were not Iraqi.
And I don't give a rat's a** if you believe me - I don't expect any words I could ever say would ever sway your view. So, bask in your ignorance, and have a nice day!
2006-06-22 15:10:06 · answer #3 · answered by Outlaw 1-3 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
When the hell are people going to realize that a good military mind does not reveal his intentions to the ******* enemy! Now, take your pea brain out of your as*s and listen up.
No Iraqi in his right mind is going on record to say he wants the US to stay. He won't do that because the Bogey man will come in the dark of night and cut off his friggin head.
Everyone knows that the Sunni's are in bed with the insurgents, or are in fact, the insurgents.
We will stay until the fledgling new Iraqi government can stand on its own democratic feet, sustain the war without our help, and finally, tells us to go home.
The 87% you claim to know wants us out, have no voice in the matter. Iraq now has a government that represents the interest of the Iraqi people. These are the people you need to talk about as far as American involvement in their country.
2006-06-20 20:56:43 · answer #4 · answered by briang731/ bvincent 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'd say president Bush. Bush's poll numbers are strongest in the areas of national security and terrorism. Unfortunutely, most people forget that Bush created the terrorist problem/insurgency in Iraq by invading in the first place. By not creating a timetable, Bush guarentees a prolonged conflict that does nothing, but benefit his party domestically. The military probably has its own timeline whatever the politicians say. This is the type of planning military types do as a matter of course.
2006-06-20 20:55:10 · answer #5 · answered by Atheist81 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You people need to read the response from sgt_k. Those are the same stats I get from vets returning from Iraq. These vets also threw in the information that some insurgents are also members of the deposed Baath(spelling?) Party who cannot accept the fact that they and Saddam no longer get to rape their own country.
2006-06-22 23:33:10 · answer #6 · answered by 63vette 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You'll pre-empt, huh? lol Okay, I'll counterstrike with this answer! hehe
Because the people who truly believe this is a 'righteous' war, and who are very upset at atrocities, such as the recent torture and beheadings of two U.S. soldiers, are wanting to make sure that the U.S. (or as they always call us, America) will not be taken advantage of by other countries. Today I was listening to one of the rightwing talk radio hosts, and he was saying that it's so evident that the U.S. is under attack. Some of our missiles have gone off practise to usable attack mode, or something like that. In other words, we're really under alert right now.
2006-06-20 20:49:05 · answer #7 · answered by merlin_steele 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
First of all polls, and statsitics are misleading. They can be twisted and manipuated to give misleading results.
The fact is, a timetable for withdrawal is stupid, it's bad millitary tactics. You don't withdraw after X amount of years. You withdraw once the goal is acomplished.
Otherwise we're going to have a problem thats 10x worse 10 years from now.
2006-06-21 01:20:14 · answer #8 · answered by Greenspan 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the current situation, is not good for the troops to come home yet because the country is not stable enough to survive by itself, if the troops leave will be real bad for the iraqui people as insurghent would take over , after raining even more terror on the streets of iraq and overwelm the goverment they had in place, bush is staying the course of finishing what it's been started or else all our souldiers would have died in vain..
2006-06-20 20:48:47 · answer #9 · answered by maiga 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bush administration
2006-06-20 20:48:44 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
We left Vietnam too soon....and look what happened there. Leaving too soon would send the message to our enemies, yet again, that the U.S. will turn tail and run at the first sign of trouble.
And why can't you people stop calling them 'insurgents' and 'detainees'. Just call them what they really are....TERRORISTS!
2006-06-20 20:46:57 · answer #11 · answered by NateTrain 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋