Why do Republicans think 'stay and pay' is a sane policy in Iraq?

Question

the definition of madness is repeating the same mistake we made in Vietnam

Answer 1

Everybody with the capacity for logical thought has left the Republicants by now.

Answer 2

Not the same as Vietnam. Not good either. Don't just blame the Republicans. Many Democrats had to have voted for it or it would not have happened. I sure wish there was a simple answer to this problem and many others. Not that easy. Iraq most likely will not turn out to be much better than it was before. A lot of the blame also has to be put on the UN for letting Iraq get away with telling them to F-off as they say. It was the UN mandate that stated that the UN was to intervene if Iraq did not adhere to the resolution. It was the UN that kept making new resolutions until there were seventeen of them. I am not siding with Bush either. there are many mistakes made and not just the USA making them. Answers are not easy to come by. It should never have happened the way it did.

Answer 3

After having thrown out the Bathist government, do you think that the USA is responsible reestablishing a working government in Iraq? The Republicans are saying, "YES". They see it as America's responsibility to ensure that the future of Iraq will be peaceful and democratic.

If the Democrats get their way with "cut and run" politics what do you think will happen? There will be more sectarian violence, perhaps a civil war. Millions will die. And another despot will take command of Iraq who may in fact be worst that Saddam Hussein.

Some Democrats seem to believe that we will not be able to prevent a civil war anyway.. Other Democrats dream that an international force would step in and do a better job that the Americans..

In two years America will vote for a new President. It is likely that the "stay and pay" policy of the current administration only has 2 years to show marked improvement. Then we'll see if the alternative theories were any better.

Answer 4

You make a point about making the same mistakes we made in Vietnam - what you are apparently not aware of is what the actual mistakes were in the Vietnam War. We never lost any major battle in Vietnam - it was lost here in the US, politically. That is why Nixon a Republican won the election, because only he offered a sane approach (on paper) to withdrawing. If you do the digging, you will see that a lot has been accomplished in Iraq that they set out to do. Most of these accomplishments, were criticized by the radical left and Media as not being even a posibillity, yet they succeeded nevertheless. All three elections they said would never happen and certainly not in the time frame laid out. The fact is that they did happen within the time frame. Infrastructures have been rebuilt, WMD's were even found. Why stay? Because it is the compassionate and right thing to do. While many gave their lives (much less than just a one month period of WWII), why should they be in vain? If you pull out without complete stability, you lay the path of death to millions who have struggled for freedom.

Answer 5

Because they don't want to give up on losing battle. I can't believe they are staying there for the good of the Iraqui people. We have brought them nothing but death, disaster and civil war.
Our troops are still dying, over 19, 000 wounded.
Halliburton, Kellogg, Root and Brown are geting a huge portion of the 6 billion dollars a month the war is costing us. They cater all services, food, water, laundry, garbage detail, etc. on the no- bid contracts awarded by Bush. Cheney was a a big shot with Halliburton and has around 400,000 shares of stock held in trust for him. Halliburton also has the contracts to 'rebuild' Iraq, I hope the insurgents run them to the ocean when our troops have left!

Yes, this is madness , the worst of it is that our Administration will not bring the troops home until it suits their political purposes, as in, closer to the Presidental election. Then to the Republicans goes the glory and amid the pomp and ceremony, that a$$ Bush can trumpet, "Mission Accomplished, vote Republican"!

Answer 6

For every bullet used by my sons and there fellow soldiers they make money. And what pisses me off is that if you follow the money from the Russian arms and others that they use against my boys, is made with the republican money that they invested in the main Russian and other countries money makers arms sales. Who knows maybe latter on in life we will get to return the favor and send a product or two their direction and pay the Republicans back what they deserve. sorry that's how I feel. how long are they going to say to us " let the poor eat cake" maybe until we do what the french did for the same statement.

Answer 7

Reading everyone's answers makes me sad. Some of us are Republicans and some of us are Democrats, but most of us reading this are AMERICANS! The USA and its citizens need to understand that there are people out there that want to kill us. We are considered "Infidels" To be destroyed. You don't sign cease-fires with radicals. You kill them. Put yourself in the oval office for a second and try to answer the questions that Bush has too. Do we push though the hard times and get the job done? or do we pull out of the middle east and "hope" there isn't another 9/11/01? We need to eliminate our enemy's because I don't need some terrorist strapping a bomb to their child and sending them into the Chucky E Cheese my family and I are at.

Answer 8

Not all Republicans agree with that. I am a Republican and former military and I say bring our boys home. They did their job, now if these people are going to kill each other thats not our problem.

Democracy is hard, our nation has many historical struggles internally and externally and millions of people died in the process. Its time that the Iraqis take the reigns of their future.

Answer 9

the only mistake made in vietnam was allowing the loudmouth demonstrators to encourage the enemy, thus causing thousands more american soldiers to be killed.

Did you know the general of the north vietnam army said they were ready to surrender long before the war ended, but they saw the anti war demonstrations, and it gave them strength to go on?

Answer 10

Be reminded, that the real escalation of the Viet Nam war took place during the Kennedy and Johnson administrations and a Republican administration got us out of there........

A better question is...why do we police the world and then get crapped on ?