We overthew Saddam. We elimimated the the threat of WMDs. We have established a Government in the country. What is our mission now? Will our presence or withdrawal make any difference to a country of people who don't care whether we are there are or not?
2006-10-18 14:16:27 · 11 answers · asked by Fred C. Dobbs 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Military
I think its called mission creep. The mission was to get rid of Saddam as he was a threat. I would have been fine with just leaving at that point. I think I would have turned the place into a stone age society and left. With a simple warning to the Iraqis if we have to come back it will be worse.
But some thought we ought to at least let the Iraqis set up their own government and get on their feet. I was OK with that. Then the terrorist started pouring in . I thought well maybe we could hang out there for a while and kill a few terrorist before we go.
Now they want to get an government established that can be our ally. I think thats reaching a little too far. I think we stay until the Iragis can defend themselves and move on. I would think over the next year it should be enough.
We are still baby sitting in Germany, Japan, and South Korea. We don't need another country to defend for 60 years.
2006-10-18 14:32:07 · answer #1 · answered by Roadkill 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It's to train the Iraqi forces to take over and supply security while they are being trained. It takes a year to train them in just the basics and then new ones have to be trained when the first batch dies or flees. Enough police and soldiers have been trained and stuck with it that over 75% of Iraqi will have been turned over to Iraq in the begining of next year. The Iraqi government already controls over 50% of Iraq.
2006-10-18 23:13:58 · answer #2 · answered by gregory_dittman 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Our true mission had nothing to do with Saddam or Iraq freedom. We needed a country in the middle east to build a land base. Now we are stock piling weapons in preparation for war with Iran and north korea, our true mission.
2006-10-18 21:27:05 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
First of all, no one in Iraq had a say on US troops presence to invasion.
2006-10-21 07:02:35 · answer #4 · answered by mutaisemh 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
the unsaid mission is to remain and strengthen forces in the region and build permanent military installations .. all the while continue psy-op operations on the population to keep them killing each other instead of mounting an effective resistance and the secondary benefit of that is to have an excuse to stay in the region while the US plans the next phase of operation-take-over-the-entire- middle-east-and-its-oil
2006-10-18 21:26:18 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
Hehehe... Now BUsh finds similarities with Vietnam!
http://abcnews.go.com/WNT/story?id=2583579
2006-10-18 21:18:29 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It's about showing the world that we have power.
let's just hope bushie boy doesn't go a-wall on us again and fake another terrorist attack like on 9/11! yeah you know I said it!
2006-10-21 00:58:40 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Our mission is to win THIS secret "prize"!...
http://www.strayreality.com/Lanis_Strayreality/iraq.htm
2006-10-18 22:25:44 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
its to slaughter innocents, and deprive muslims in iraq of their freed0m. isnt it obvious bush, they don want u dum*** there.!
spend that 300,000,000,000
on new orleans.
l00ks like they n33d ur H3LP!!!
2006-10-18 21:20:11 · answer #9 · answered by oceanlab 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
It is to show we are in control
2006-10-18 21:23:53 · answer #10 · answered by lairlair211 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋