Most Iraqis want US troops out. Will we cut and run?

Question

See: http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/meast/09/27/iraq.poll/index.html

Answer 1

Yes.

The Democrats are going to win more seats in this November's election. If they don't start withdrawing the troops then two years later in the Presidential election withdrawing the troops will be a major issue.

The leak in the National Security Estimate states that the Iraq was is actually creating more terrorists; it has become the "Cause Celeb" among the radical Moslems.

Then there is the depletion of the troops; the military was drawn down in 1992, thanks to the end of the Cold War. Our current troop levels make it impossible to carry on the two wars at our current levels. If we pull out of Afghanistan then the nation will fall into disarray and the Talibin will probably take over. That led to 9/11 so winning the struggle in Afghanistan is more important than the war in Iraq. Donald Rumsfeld had a new plan to use a low number of troops to get a lot done. He was over reaching and we are paying the penalty for it now.

The National Guard is in its worse state since before the Korean War (when half their vehicles wouldn't run). Most of their equipment is in Iraq or blown up and they have many gaps in their table of organization. Recruitment is down and the casualty rate is only rising.

The Iraq government, as it stands, may not survive a complete pull out of US troops, but it CAN'T survive our continued involvement. The latest plan is to gradually pull the troops out (at some unknown point in time) and then put the rest into support roles. However, with the budding civil war between the Sunnis and the Shiites the entire country is going to descend into total chaos.

The Republicans are so unpopular now that they are probably going to lose control of the Presidency, and maybe even Congress. When it happens then the Democrats are going to want to pull the US troops out of the Middle East as soon as possible. They know that they can’t pull them all out at once, but they will start a phased withdrawal as fast as possible. I never favored the Iraq war and now that I know the only reason we went in was so George Junior could finish George Senior’s war, I like it even less. George Bush Senior and Collin Powel didn’t want to finish Desert Storm. The purpose was to kick Sadam Hussian out of Kuwait and to break his military. They didn’t want to finish the war, because that would require long-term commitment in a region of the world that hates the US. His job before being President was as the head of the CIA. He knew that if he took over Iraq he would be putting the US’s hand into a meat grinder; we are only learning that now. The US has to pull out at some point or the US will stick more than it’s hand into the meat grinder.

Answer 2

Thats what bush wants to do he wants to pull back over the horizon like Sen. Biden suggested a year ago. Oh yea the idiot repubs have come up with a different word for it they call it redeployment not cut and run that makes all the difference. Amazingly the repub base falls for the new word everytime.

Answer 3

To that person who said your poll is wrong, would it be wrong if it favored Bush? People are going to believe what they want. If you think the most Iraqi's want us out well then its true. If she says that the poll is wrong well then it wrong. Everyone is so stuck on there own ways that there is no compromise anymore which leads me back to the answer to your question. We can move our troops out of Iraq and put them in friendly countries where if the Shi* hits the fan we are there in a heart beat to put out the flame. But by us staying in Iraq we are the gasoline and there is no one to put US out. You see the difference. We can be the Water or we can be the Gas.

Answer 4

most of the U.S. wants troops out also, including me. However the answer to the question is not as simple as that. I don't think they should leave NOW, or THIS MONTH, etc... The need to eventually leave, when things are ready.

Most polls are skewed to get the results they want.
In order for it to be a 'legit' poll, there must be 1000 people polled. Does that automatically represent the entire population?

Answer 5

They didn't say cut and run tomorrow. A third said, six months another third said within a year. I think it's great that they are building confidence in their own military. They have been taking the forefront in most conflicts.

Answer 6

More than likely not.

The only reasons we have to stay there now are to help train their armies, so they will be able to defend themselves, and to help create and provide protection to whatever government the IRAQI PEOPLE want. Once that is in place, we can slowly draw out.

You can't dig yourself in this big of a hole and then decide to turn your back and run.

Answer 7

Do you believe everything you read on CNN?

Any survey can be structured to get any answer you want. It depends on who you ask, how many people you ask, how you word the questions, and in what order you ask them.

Was the question: Would you like the US troops to stay indefinitely, or leave within a year? See how surveys work?

Answer 8

tofu says no, but then contradicts himself. if you want to save lives there you need military protection, I have serious doubts that the Iraqis forces would really protect that much American civilians trying to help. and for American civilians to go in and helpm extremism needs to stop. if you pull out US forces from Iraq alltogether, what do you think would happen? they would let US citizens, who want to help, back in, or accuse us of abandoning them?
Im pessimistic about suddenly leaving Iraq, even if some say that the war was unjustified.

Answer 9

The Iraqi government has asked us to stay and continue training their military and police forces to handle the job. They know the consequences of failure.

It's a good thing that national survival is not up to opinion polls - otherwise, an enemy clever at propaganda could easily win.

Answer 10

Or we can starting making intelligent choices, and stop treating it as an all-or-nothing childhood game of "stay the course" (do nothing) versus "cut and run" (do a different nothing).

Or maybe expecting intelligent decisions is beyond reasonable expecatation for anyone in politics.