Why is the military having a terrible time in Iraq?

Question

Supposed to be over in 6 to 8 months. Why no end?

Answer 1

they invaded another persons country and are trying to impose american and republican values, what americans find as a good sytem isn the same for other people

Answer 2

Who said it was supposed to be over in 6 to 8 months?

Iraq isn't easy, to put it mildly, but our guys over there are not having as terrible a time as the mainstream media is leading you to believe.

Ask people who've served there, and they'll highly likely tell you that much of what the media reports on Iraq is heavily slanted.

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Answer 3

The answer is that we are not. It only appears that way because the media is presenting a distorted picture.

For example - look at the questions and answers here and note how many people don't even know that the Iraqi people wrote and voted on a constitution over a year ago. Then they had an election just under a year ago and elected a democratic government.

You should not be surprised that people who are not aware of this think the war is going badly.

Answer 4

Because usually arabs are cowards and cannot fight on the battlefield face to face and so they employ guerrilla warfare and as a result it makes the war longer,
Most of those insurgents are from Iran anyway, the US should take the war to Iran knowing that they are working to get nukes and hand them out to terrorists or they will use them against Europe and Israel and even the US. Like president Roosevelt once said "When you see a rattlesnake you don't have to let it bite you for you to realize that it's dangerous but you kill it before it poses a real threat"

Answer 5

The military is having a terrible time in Iraq because they need to get back to their own country and families and leave the Iraqis alone.It is only then that peace will reign in Iraq and once the Iraqis are given their country back they will take the initiative to bring about peace and move their country towards being stable again

Answer 6

The US Military is very good at doing what it does best, and that is closing with the enemy and destroying their will to fight. What the US Military does not do well is Peacekeeping Operations. That is what the Iraqi mission is now, a Peacekeeping mission. The US does not have a clear exit strategy. It is going to take time for the US to extricate itself from Iraq. Unfortunately this is also going to raise the death toll. The one thing that the US has shown to the world is when the body count goes up the sentiment to get out raises also. I feel as if we need to stay, show our resolve and complete the mission.

Answer 7

Because it's a war. Things in everyday life don't always go as planned let alone a armed conflict. From a strategic standpoint it is similar to Vietnam where the enemy combatants wore no uniforms and blend into the population. We could just kill everyone and it would be over in a day but that wouldn't be right.

Answer 8

Rumsfelds arrogance and mis-management of the whole thing didn't help. Couple that with creating a vacuum in post-Saddam Iraq for extremists to fill and having no policy to deal with it. It was as if "Well Saddam is out of the way now. Three cheers. Now we can go and have a jolly". The complete lack of post-Saddam policy has created this civil nightmare in Iraq. That goes for the British too too. They are as bad and equally culpable.

Answer 9

Because the idiot Republicans don't want to look like the warmongers they are by leaving a broken down Iraq that they used US troops to bully. And the Democrats don't want to support the false Republican claims that their weak on terror and do the right thing and end this war today. War used to mean you killed your enemies...the troops did that so they shouldn't have to stay and clean up the country.

Answer 10

The Military is trained to fight agaisnt another military force where the combatants are recognizable and fight according to structured military training, in specific patterns according to their armaments and service configuration.
Controlling a conflict where their is no recognizable combatant but where every civilian is a potential comabatant who cannot, legally and by dint of training, be attacked until he attacks. therefore the advantage is always with the insurgent/terrorist what have you. Numbers mean little because the "enemy", (to Quote Mao Tse Tung but really Sun Tze) hides in the river of the people

Answer 11

The war IS over. What we are doing now is just another theater of the war on terror. We are no longer fighting the Iraqi army, we are fighting insurgents (terrorists). On the political front, I think that the Iraqi PM (Maliki) needs to get out of office. He has no idea what he is doing and in the process of his insecure decisions, us troops are getting killed.