Will the Iraq war be over when Bush's term is up?

Answer 1

No absolutely not. Irrespective of the fact that it will destroy Republican chances in '08 - the stakes are far too high to pull out. It did not have to be this way - there were other routes to achieving our strategic goals but Bush has gotten us in to this disaster, we are committed. The consequences of failure are simply too dire to contemplate. The Democrats will ler their firebrands blow off their mouths but they must recognise the geo political ramifications of this disaster, miscaculation and fraud perpetrated in the name of the American public. But they will find some way to go along - I belive they have to - the alternative is simply too horrible in its long term impact. This is the biggest foreign policy catastrophe that has ever occurred in this country bar none and history will not be kind to this man. W will not leave Iraq - he will with cosmetic changes 'stay the course' because he is more afraid of the long term geo political consequences of his miscalculation than he is of the political consequences of staying.

For the record I am a lifelong liberal, a real lefty with unimpeachable liberal credentials - but the geo political realities of W's gamble with our lives and our wealth has left me with no choice but to accept the sacrifice of our young men and women against my nature, all because the consequences of failure are so dire. W should be impeached but the war has to go on, we simply have no choice. W cast the die and the future is bleak - our enemies have placed us so predictably between a rock and a hard place. It just did not need to be this way.

A quick response to Jon S - You have to be kidding me - you are still buying that we did this for 'moral' reasons. What we tried to do was pick up a significant piece in the geo-political chess game that is going on between Russia, China and the US. By the way the Bushies after a good opening in this chess game have been losing minor pieces (the ex USSR republics in Central Asia especially) one by one. Iraq is a major piece in the game if we lose this one - our backs are against the wall - and we may well lose the game.

I f you are willing to put in the effort - read the following which is a fairly detailed account of the geo political chess game that has been going on.

http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/index.html

The problem wityh the mainstream media is that there is a profound lack of synthesis - its all events and analysis of a few events - there is no grand picture.

Answer 2

Bush somewhat F*cked up. If he became talking approximately getting rid of Saddam Hussein, then fantastic, project executed, however the aftermath of it, the insurgency, the civil war, the bombings, and all the different crap, became foreseen, yet disregarded. Defeating Germany and Japan became a be counted of establishing a military- commercial complicated that couldnt be slowed or stopped. The conflict of halfway became a conflict of plane carriers, which thankfully the jap had no longer destroyed at pearl harbor. Plus Russia slowed down Germany and China slowed down Japan, allowing the U.S. to capture up. we are battling a different enemy in Iraq, in basic terms like in Vietnam. we are battling people who % to cover and cover, ambush and automobile-bomb, and customarily be a nuisance. I in no way offered the (we would desire to combat them there, so we dont would desire to combat them right here) nonsense. the american people are armed to the tooth, and dont % lots of an excuse to drag a set off. enable the terrorists come over right here! carry IT ON! they had in no way 9/11 us ever returned.......

Answer 3

Not by a long shot. Bush has worked very hard to keep the war effort going forward. It was designed to make it look like he was busy, since he had no concrete platforms that would be successful.

Answer 4

No.
The reason its not over now is that the Bush administration is going to leave it going until the Republicans lose the race for President in 2008 to the Democrats who are going to have to face the task of cleaning up the mess Bush made. It is almost guaranteed that pulling out of Iraq will be a nightmare and it will be blamed on the Democrats.
He's Evil, I tell you!

Answer 5

It depends on who is the next president. If Hillary, McCain, or Giuliani are elected, we will see a massive change in strategy. Obama and Edwards have said they would most likely reduce troop forces severely. But whomever is elected, there will be change.

Answer 6

The Shrub's decisions will probably drag us down for years to come. While it is possible that it will be over by then, I don't think King George will let go so easily. How did he get to be president? Must've been extra push from his dad being pres before...

Answer 7

Probably not, contrary to popular belief Bush is not in there for extremely slefish or Secular reasons. He went in on good faith for reason "A" but found that "A" was false, however he did discover "B" and "B" was reason to send people in. Right now we can't afford to pull out because we need to help stabalie Iraq, however we also need to tell Iraq to get off of its lazy duff and pull its own weight because we're here to help not to do it for them.

Answer 8

I personally think it'll be the equivalent to the Vietnam war.

Answer 9

No. A group of liberal hippies say that global warming will destroy the Earth by the end of next week.

Answer 10

So far Dumbya seems to want to be the Warrior Dictator to his last day. Beyond that who knows?