Why is the war in Iraq so bleak?

Question

Iraq Picture Grows Clearer, and Bleaker

By John Rickers
San Diego Post Writers
Tuesday, November 28, 2006; Page 1

The U.S. military is no longer able to defeat a bloody insurgency in western Iraq or counter al-Qaeda's rising popularity there, according to newly disclosed details from a classified Marine Corps intelligence report that set off debate in recent months about the military's mission in Anbar province. Mr Bush has lost the war but won't admit it. The USA will pull out in about two years but will not admit defeat.

The Marines recently filed an updated version of that assessment that stood by its conclusions and stated that, as of mid-November, the problems in troubled Anbar province have not improved, and never will improve, a senior U.S. intelligence official said yesterday. "The fundamental questions of lack of control, growth of the insurgency and criminality" remain the same, the official said. The USA will have paid a heavy price for failure.

Answer 1

We went to 'topple Saddam'. We did that. Now we are trying to run the affairs of a country we never really knew anything about.
It is time to pull the troops to the borders, secure them and let the Iraqis "duke it out" whom will be in power.

Answer 2

Well, it would have been good, had the Democrats in Congress not prevented Bush from immediately retaliating after 9/11. As it was, though, we gave Saddam a year to pack up his weapons and move them/hide them, plus prepare all his evil terrorists for when the Americans arrived! It wasn't a good start, then to have so many unfaithful American's announcing they won't and don't support our military in Iraq, (poor men and women soldiers to feel that their country turned against them.) Then for the soldiers to hear from loved ones about the negatism on the evening news, rather than about all of the Iraqi people who LOVED the Americans and THANKED them so much for being there to HELP them! Now, with a civil war, even I'm ready to bring our Americans home! What gets me is WHY the evil segment of Iraq's people don't want peace! I guess the bottom line is that when you begin teaching a kid at only 2 years old to "HATE", it justs becomes who they are!

Answer 3

Erudite, from wherever you got that article from, it is wrong saying that Al Queda is popular over there.

It appears like that the reign of the Shias seems to be a reality. The Shias are highly dominant in Iraqi politics now, and radical cleric Muqtada Al-Sadr is very popular.

Iran could have enormous strategic political gains from this sphere. There are also similar developments in Lebanon.

Don't believe me? You can check out the link I provided. It has some good articles. Little or no bias there, and focuses on facts rather than bias.

Answer 4

It's another story of the Great Leader not wanting to receive, and his acolytes and cronies therefore not giving him, information contrary to his preconceptions. There are plenty of fables on that: Emperor's New Clothes, etc. And plenty of precedent: Barbara Tuchman, "The March of Folly".

It isn't G W Bush who will pay: he and his cronies in the military-industrial complex and the oil business are, and will be, enriched. It's the disappearing middle class; the holders of depreciating dollars; the people on fixed incomes. The injured and dead soldiers and their families. The Iraqis Bush purported to be helping; the victims of a newly inspired and revitalized terrorism. (Terrorism runs in cycles; this too will pass: but at what cost?)

Answer 5

The Iraqi people and their culture will never accept foreign intervention. They are a war like people who need to be left alone. Regardless of the best intentions, this civil war will go on for a very long time and remember, it's not just the US that's going to continue to pay a heavy price.

Answer 6

The war in Iraq is so bleak because the Iraqi people will not stand up and defend themselves from the insurgents. It is really too bad that they will not. We tried to help them come out of last century into a new one without the threat of family members getting hauled off into the night to be murdered by the corrupt government. But as long as you get to thumb your nose at Bush, you could give a crap less about the people that live under that oppression, could you? That's right...take the time to bask in your self love...

Answer 7

your fired...this is a military action not a war. we are the insurgence. if you think we're leaving,your clueless.you cant fight an ideal...don't even a bad one.the general told congress that all we needed to do is pay the Iraqi's and they'd do what ever we wanted and did any one dc even repeat the word pay?by this time next year we will be at war in Iran and by 2012 us evil Cristian's will met Jesus in the sky...that's because the Chinese are going to blow us there.see you in the stone age.

Answer 8

yet another copyrighted article that the habitual liar named erudite has inserted FABRICATIONS and LIES into.

Let us list the fabrications....
"Mr Bush has lost the war but won't admit it. The USA will pull out in about two years but will not admit defeat."
"and never will improve"
"The USA will have paid a heavy price for failure."

Your lies are exposed once again....

The link to the actual UNFABRICATED article is listed in my source section, as always.....

Answer 9

It's bleak cause that's the way the media paints it- better ratings
that way.

Answer 10

Civil war is the bleakest of all wars.