Would you be in favor of a draft to control Iraq and defeat Al-Qaeda there?

Question

Many have said we need overwhelming force to defeat terror in Iraq and save the country.

Answer 1

No. Not ever. Certainly not.

1. Look at the stupid pimps from the baby boomer generation who have become presidents --Billy Jeff Clinton and "W."! Since when is it a good idea to give these teleprompter-reading puppets an UNLIMITED POOL OF MANPOWER? We were at war MOST OF THE TIME that we had a peacetime draft, from 1940 to 1971. You want to be at war most of the time? As the world's largest debtor nation (which is what we are now?)

2. I VOLUNTEERED and went to Vietnam in 1972 in order to save some anonymous kid from having to go. My vote has more experience behind it. Until "W" and his war in Iraq, for 30 years, we had NO QUAGMIRES.

The problem, NOW, isn't having enough men. We will NEVER ever pacify Iraq after Abu Ghriab (another one of Bush and Cheney's Yale frant party pranks that backfired). Why enslave our own young men to bail out these two clowns and their successors?

Another draft is a really, truly, howlingly, terrible idea.

Answer 2

I truly do no longer understand who you're concerning. No conservative I truly have ever ordinary has ever suggested Al Qaeda is defeated in Iraq. We defeated Saddam and bumped off him. after we wipe out Al Qaeda, we've then taken a significant step to triumphing forever.

Answer 3

We have an overwhelming force. Redeploy troops from Europe and finish the job. We need to refocus the US military in Europe anyway. We don't need bases in England, France, and Germany at the current level. We are allowing these countries to have understaffed militaries so they can spend money to support their businesses competing against American companies.

So strip Army and Air Force bases throughout Europe to finish Afghanistan AND Iraq.

(I am in favor of two year National Service like almost every other country in the world has and the US had prior to the Vietnam war. except in my theory after you do two years you can get a free associates degree at any community college. If you re-up for another two years you get a BA/BS from any public college or any private college willing to participate in the program.)

Answer 4

No, a draft wouldn't do us any good. I served a total of 18 months in Afghanistan and Iraq. I wouldn't want some anti-war draftee watching my back in Afghanistan OR Iraq. We can do it with what we got. Close down some bases in Europe but not all of them because we do need some of them but most of them we can close down and send those folks to the sandbox.

Answer 5

I don't think so.... The men on the ground say there are enough troops there.
No, I would not favor a draft, nor do I believe one will be necessary. Enlistment & reinlistment numbers are higher than they have been for awhile.
What needs to happen is for the people of Iraq to stand up & fight for themselves & their country instead of sitting back *********.i.n.g. & letting foreign military save their butts.

Answer 6

Hell no we don't need a draft...fight if you want to but I'm not gonna!! I'm in favor of prisoners fighting...instead of just putting them in a safe relaxing jail cell where they can watch tv and workout and swap crime stories etc...they should be our military...they wanna be bad-*** thugs, let 'em be bad-*** thugs for a good cause and then anybody else that wants to can cause I know it's an honor and legendary in a lot of families etc. so that's cool. But, no draft!! Sorry for the rambling but that's something I feel strongly about. I'm coming down from my soap-box now...giggle :)

Answer 7

Only if they send the children of the government officials that approved the war to Iraq first.

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I like Jesi's idea for the 2 year mandatory with a reward at the end. Right on, chickie.

Answer 8

No, we have spilled enough blood over there, enough children have to grow up without their Father's and Mothers because they died over there. No one should be forced to go to this joke of a war. That's the worst thing I have heard all night. Giving them more of us to kill. My nephew is going to be 18 soon, his dad was killed on motorcycle 13 years ago, I would not see him go over there to get killed in Iraq, also I have son's too. Send your own over there if you think this wars alright. It's bad enough the man I wanted to spend the rest of my life with is going over there soon.

Answer 9

You know, I'm a conservative, I was a soldier, I supported the invasion of Iraq. (No, not for wmd's or 9/11 connection, pawn that excuse elsewhere) I say Fvck Iraq. It's a festering pool of violence and it's only going to get worse. We don't need to lose more of our people helping the millions of ungrateful Iraqis who would love to live under the next islamic fascist.

We need to spend our time finding terrorists, interrogating them, then disposing of them, not preventing one muslim from killing another. We should be getting valuable information and using it. Not waiting for another attack. This kind of war is the result of the politics surrounding it. We don't need people telling our soldiers what they can and can't do when someone is shooting at them. This isn't a new kind of war, they just changed all the rules for the good guys. Get back to the old standard, war is hell, so surrender or die.

Answer 10

Part of my says screw them. The other part of me says hell no.
If we can't accomplish the task with the troops we have then the UN needs to beef up the presence there or we need to pull out.