Would you support a draft for iraq?

Question

.. i would support a draft and be behind a plan to bolster our forces in iraq if there were clearcut goals to disarm them and restore order and finish it quickly with no holds barred .... and we could state up-front, that this move will be paid for with THEIR oil ... they are a conquered country, or are they not?

Answer 1

If we took the gloves off over there,i would go tomorrow.The problem is all the sniveling on the home front, about "torture"and "terrorist rights".Screw 'em.They are barbarians,and must dealt with as such.Why should we play by rules,and the enemy does not.?

Answer 2

First, let's put aside the fact this was at best a gross mistake and at worst an outright lie.

Now, there are always two parts to a war. One is, of course, the physical war. This is the part everyone thinks of when they envision a war. You send in your soldiers, tanks, etc. and watch humans kill other humans in various ways. There was never any question whether our forces could win this part of the war, considering most of the country was having problems just keeping the lights on and water flowing.

The second part of the war is the socio-psychological side. This is the part where you get your one-time enemies to lay down their arms and help get hings going again. This is also known as, using some modern terminology, as winning the hearts and minds of the people. Just in case you were wondering, we failed pretty miserably at that part.

Until you win the hearts and minds of the people, you will not win a war. Why? Because you will always have a resistance, as you do whenever you try to force people to do something that they don't want to do.

There is no "quickly" in this type of warfare. We aided Osama for years in their resistance against the former USSR in Afghanistan. The Soviet Army had tanks, jets, thousands and thousands of soldiers, and a liscense to shoot onsight and they still could not declare victory in Afghanistan. Eventually, they gave up and left.

And what does "no-holds-barred" mean in this instance? I take this to mean "bloodbath", since there is no real quick way to tell who is a fighter and who is not, short of someone pointing a weapon at you.

What you are proposing is an ends-justifies-the-means campaign. This is how human atrocities begin. You begin with a faulty premise, such as "do whatever it takes to kill all the hostiles and bring peace to this land". In doing so, many many thousands die as everyone becomes a target. Thousands of American soldiers die and many more thousands Iraqis die. Due to the magnitude of the slaughter, a lot of other people become pissed off and they start aiding the "hostiles". More people both inside and outside the country join their cause. The situation goes from a policing action to an all out area war.

You're situation just went from bad to living hell in a matter of months.

Of course, that's even assuming that a draft would be succesful. I'd imagine you'd have quite a large number of people claiming concientious objecter status because the war should never even exist in the first place.

All that being said, their aren't enough resources to even begin the an effort of that size. You're talking about blanket coverage for a country that's 168754 sq. mi in size. With the number of troops we have over there now, we can barely keep certain cities from crumbling.

My view on the draft? I put it somewhere in between using nuclear weapons and Hitler's gas chambers. In other words, any government that FORCES its citizens into a war is no better than any blood-thirsty war-mongering dictator that has ever existed in the past. The militiary should be used in DEFENSE only. It's indoctrinated in our laws as such. This Iraq endeavor shows exactly how far we've fallen from the guiding principles this country was founded on.

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Answer 3

I help doing in spite of it takes to clean up the mess in Iraq even as holding as many danger-free as plausible... i imagine the adult males in females in or defense force are being taxed heavily doing numerous excursions contained in the barren area, and its even extra sturdy on their households. i imagine a draft would reason nationwide outrage in spite of the actuality that, and it would supply a good better look of defeat.... that is possibly why the president has strayed faraway from a draft! yet fairly i don't think of the quantity of troops we deliver to Iraq is going to make a lot of a large difference except we hit upon a thanks to double the quantity there, and that would really be plausible with a draft!!! so i say both a sparkling mind-set or a draft!

Answer 4

No. A draft is unnecessary due to the fact that all branches of the military have met their enlistment goals and re enlistments have increased.
I think the war would end sooner if the generals, not the politicians, were running the show.

Answer 5

I don't support a draft. After another war in Asia, called Vietnam, the draft was abolished. Since then, our forces are all volunteers.
I think compulsory military service is a mistake. Let's have better artillery instead.

Answer 6

I would not support a draft for any war because drafted soldiers do not fight one third as well as a vollenteer. I served in the millitary and am proud to have done so. I do think we need more troops in Iraq but that doesn't mean a draft... It means withdraw from Bosnia... 25,000 more troops over night.

Answer 7

We do not need a draft, so your question is moot.

I think that charging them for our help is a bad idea. We have to fight these wars whether we want to or not. Charging them will probably turn the Iraqi people against us.

We have plenty of troops. What we need is to let them loose. Kill Mookie Al Sadr. Kill anyone who terrorizes civilians. We cannot win a PC war and that is what we have been fighting. We also need to throw out journalists because they are reporting parts of the story, the parts that try and turn Americans against the war.

Answer 8

They're no more conquered than Canada. The reign of terror has shifted from Saddam to the Muslim terrorists, that's all. As to the draft - no way in hell. We need to bring the troops home, not send more over there to get killed!!!!

Answer 9

I do not support a draft for Iraq. The President has never supported one either.

Answer 10

No.

I dont' support forced conscript labor, whether slavery or forced military service. And it's especially bad when the project involved is so fatally doomed to failure as the effort in Iraq.

They are a conquered country, effectively. And if the US govt wants a stable government, then the only realstic option is to set the country up as multiple protectorates, split along sectarian lines. They're not going to be in a position go govern themselves for decades.

So, either we stay and run the country like Guam or Puerto Rico, or we pull out and let them sort out their own civil war. Anything else has proven of the past three years to be unworkable.