Is Iraq going down hill? Are we going to lose Iraq?

Question

Comments by influential Republican Senator John Warner, meanwhile, fuelled perceptions that a new debate may be emerging on the direction of Iraq policy among members of the administration and political allies.

"The security situation is not one to be tolerated, and is not one that is helped by political inaction," Rice said on her trip to Baghdad this week, which started with the uncomfortable image of the US secretary of state being forced to circle the airport for 45 minutes because of a rocket attack.

What will happen to Iraq?

Answer 1

You've already lost in Iraq, GW and Congress just don't want to admit it. Iraq is going to turn into another VIetnam for the USA, they'll keep poring billions of dollars and more and more poorly trained soldiers into it until public opinion, coupled with an unexceptable amount of dead American soldiers forces a change in policy.

Answer 2

The war in Iraq will be won by the coalition forces. The lion's share of the fighting will be done before Bush leaves office. It's hard to see that given the daily grind of news of attacks and suicide bombings, but a careful analysis of the news show a shrinking field of battle. Most of the violence is happening in Baghdad and the surrounding area today when over a year ago it was spread across the nation. (The noose is tightening.)Studying the tapes and videos released by Al-Quaeda in Iraq hint at an ever desperate enemy. Insurgencies take about a decade to rout out, though I see every indication of W accomplishing it in record time despite being hobbled at evey turn by liberals and peaceniks.

Iraq will become a moderate arab nation that will become a safe haven for moderate muslims who will create a rennaissance in the arab world once the jihadists are killed off and the Arab peoples genius is allowed to flourish free of the iron dome of fundamentalism. The same will work out for Aghanistan and together these two nations will pave the way for the rest of the Arab world.

Of course if we pull out prematurely many of the 12 million Arabs who risk life and limb every day to make this happen will be abandoned to the jihadists. Like the Vietnamese who were abandoned to the Viet Cong a generation ago, millions of them will probably be killed off by our enemies if we do not see this through.

There's some nine hundred days left of Bush term and I remain optomistic.

Answer 3

The problem is that the young in Irac have been thought from a very young age to hate people who do not agree with there religious beliefs.We also had the same mental destruction in this country many years ago,it,s up to them to realise that the only thing that means anything is FORGET THE HATREAD and look at tomorrow.

Answer 4

the three superb similarities: the press substitute into against the conflict & the policies of engagement. the press each and daily declaring we will not win stimulated defeatism. the policies of engagement pronounced you couldn’t wrestle to win. the U. S. authorities misplaced the P.R. conflict the two right here & in yet another usa. Police action at ideal you are able to in spite of the undeniable fact that wrestle to a stalemate. extra people die & the conflict very final longer.

Answer 5

We will stay there until we win. Warner is another Republican in Congress who has lost his way. Time to get rid of him.

Answer 6

PNAC ( http://www.newamericancentury.org/... ), the Project for the New American Century is a Washington-based think tank created in 1997. They want the United States, by way of economic and military force, to bring the rest of the world under the umbrella of a new socio-economic Pax Americana. The New World order.

Vice President Dick Cheney is a founding member of PNAC, along with Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and Defense Policy Board chairman Richard Perle. Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz is the ideological father of the group. Bruce Jackson, a PNAC director, served as a Pentagon official for Ronald Reagan before leaving government service to take a leading position with the weapons manufacturer Lockheed Martin. William Kristol, famed conservative writer for the Weekly Standard, is also a co-founder of the group. The Weekly Standard is owned by Ruppert Murdoch, who also owns international media giant Fox News.

PNAC's ideology can be found in a White Paper produced in September of 2000 entitled "Rebuilding America's Defenses: Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century."

According to PNAC, America must:
* Reposition PERMANANTLY based forces to Southern Europe, Southeast Asia and the Middle East;
* Modernize U.S. forces, including enhancing our fighter aircraft, submarine and surface fleet capabilities;
* Develop and deploy a global missile defense system, and develop a strategic dominance of space;
* Control the "International Commons" of cyberspace;
* Increase defense spending to a minimum of 3.8 percent of gross domestic product, up from the 3 percent currently spent (which Bush has already done)

When Bush assumed the Presidency, the men who created and nurtured the imperial dreams of PNAC became the men who run the Pentagon, the Defense Department and the White House. On September 11th, when the Towers came down, these men saw their chance to turn their White Papers into substantive policy. On September 20th 2001, Bush released the "National Security Strategy of the United States of America." It is an ideological match to PNAC's "Rebuilding America's Defenses" report issued a year earlier. In many places, it uses exactly the same language to describe America's new place in the world.

Most ominously, this PNAC document described four "Core Missions" for the American military. The two central requirements are for American forces to "fight and decisively win multiple, simultaneous major theater wars," and to "perform the 'constabulary' duties associated with shaping the security environment in critical regions." In order to bring this plan to fruition, the military must fight these wars one way or the other to establish American dominance for all to see. According to the Washington Post and The Nation, the final slide of this presentation described "Iraq as the tactical pivot, Saudi Arabia as the strategic pivot, and Egypt as the prize" in a war that would purportedly be about ridding the world of terrorism. Bush has deployed massive forces into the Mideast region, while simultaneously engaging American forces in the Philippines and playing nuclear chicken with North Korea. The American people, anxiously awaiting some sort of exit plan after America defeats Iraq, will see too late that no exit is planned.

Our government has been financing research with Monsanto and Dupont to genitically alter seeds so they produce plants who's seeds will not germinte. This will force farmers/nations to rebuy seeds each year from whoever controls them.
( http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?c... ) I believe they already have the patent, or are in the process of applying for it. Think of the implications, not only could we bomb the "f" out of you, but starve you too...until you comply.

Terrorism will INCREASE, and the coming wars will take millions of lives, but that is an acceptable sacrifice for them, as the world would be easier to control with a significantly smaller population.

Eventually, there WILL be American dissent; the citizens will attempt to rise up against the government that's been ripped from under us. That was what the "War on Terror" has really been all about: Constitutional changes that empower the Presidency, protect government from the people, and eliminate citizens rights, (Patriot Acts I & II, and last week's "torture" bill).

In preparation for what's to come, our civil rights, liberties, freedoms, guarantees of due process, and protections from unfair treatment by our own government have been severely diminished by the Patriot Acts. Last week's "torture" bill shifted some powers from Congress to the President, further empowering him. Together, both documents VAGUELY redefine "terrorist" to easily implicate ANY American citizen as a "potential terrorist" or "potential enemy combatant" simply by the words MISSING from the document, that would protect us from such. While all this had been loudly pointed out in Congress, the bill was still passed, as is. It is now highly possible that YOU might be the one being tortured, held in military custody, without access to a lawyer or our judicail system, indefinitely.

Consider also, the true role of FEMA, according to the bill that created that agency. In a (very vaguely defined) "national emergency", they take FULL CONTROL of industry, transportation, wages, employment, can relocate populations, enforce forced citizen labor, money, credit, utilities, communication, media...they BECOME our goverment, and cannot be reviewed by Congess for at least 6 months.

PNAC wants American domination and control over every nation on our world. WE will be the cannon fodder. Our nation is quickly becoming militarized, and we no longer have a say in the matter. WE are "acceptable losses" in their game of greed and power.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public."
Theodore Roosevelt, 1912

"Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
Benjamin Franklin

"When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty"
Thomas Jefferson

Answer 7

Hopefully it will one day be a strong, reliable Democratic country that will be the model other Middle Eastern countries aspire to be.

Answer 8

Only if the left wins will we lose Iraq!

Answer 9

Yeah if they do not change their strategy as I heard on
CNN. 19 have died this month. But seriosly why are you such a liberal!!!

Answer 10

Erudite, huh?

1 - No, 'cause it can't go any further downhill.

2 - No, unless we further lose our nerve (which seems pretty well lost at this time).