Bush: “ I think an interesting construct that Gen. Pace uses is, 'We're not winning, we're not losing.' There's been some very positive developments.”
Ya think?
The DOD report, ‘Measuring Stability and Security in Iraq’ (released last week) cites a 22% increase in attacks. Lt. Gen John Sattler, the director of strategic plans and policy for the U.S. military: "The violence has escalated at an unbelievably rapid pace.”
The report says there are now 322,000 soldiers and police officers in the new Iraqi security forces, but it says many of them are not available to serve due to death, injury, attrition, approved and unapproved leave and a reluctance to be deployed in violent areas. According to General Sattler, fewer than 200,000 Iraqi soldiers and policemen are available at any given time. The report also criticizes corruption and sectarian loyalties, particularly in the police and the Ministry of Interior, and charges that the police sometimes facilitate militia attacks.
2006-12-19 23:33:51 · 11 answers · asked by Timothy B 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
The best - the only...! - indication is the deep poliotical doo-doo that both GWBush and Tony Bliar are in right now...!
Take some comfort in that, while you can. Someday, it would be good to see them both frog-marched off to face prosecution for War Crimes...!!!
2006-12-19 23:42:50 · answer #1 · answered by TruthHurts 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I believe that it is very unfortunate the situation we are in right now, I don't want to see my country fail by no means, but it seems to be a lose lose situation.
I would like to say DOD has done everything it can do, I have witnessed military members from ETS due to being stop-lost a necessary move to keep up with the need to retain personal in the branches. We had a superb military victory against Saddam demoralized military back in 2003.
what happened after that was something that was not given a lot of thought obviously. Few people warned about the after math and maybe even fewer cared. I was our lack of understanding, lack of foresight that brought us to where we are. Building a democracy in the middle east, I don't see it happening. In my humble opinion, it is an impossibility. People here only understand one thing and that is force. I don't see them learning new ways. If they do have elections, great, then what they need to govern. And that has proven much more difficult in practice than in theory.
My 2 cents
2006-12-20 08:12:49 · answer #2 · answered by Robert Bradbury 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
point blank... The problem is too many Americans have this need for instant gratification. Tell you what write to your representative and plead for the government to TAKE THE POLITICS OUT OF THE WAR, let the generals do their job, the right way, and Iraq could be rapped up in a few months.
Real life isn't huggy huggy kissy kissy ring around the roses, wake up and smell the evil in the world.
2006-12-20 08:30:23 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
All right, so this is a difficult circumstance. My guess is that most people didn't realize that some of the people of Iraqi would not appreciate freedom from Saddam and would be willing to use violence in an attempt to impose their will and views on the entire population of that country.
Do you have a solution?
2006-12-20 07:46:31 · answer #4 · answered by jack w 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
The economy in Iraq is one of the fast growing in the world. I think that is sort of significant, don't you? The media has done a bang up job of only reporting the negative, and not the positive and certainly nothing close to accurate. Do yourself a favor and try to find real sources of accurate information, you certainly won't get it from the media.
2006-12-20 07:58:50 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
wow, i think this is the first time I've ever seen someone cite a factual source...but to get to your question...I don't think we are making SIGNIFICANT progress but we are making it...The majority of Iraq's provinces are free of the sectarian violence...We need to seal the Iraqi/Iranian and Syrian border to keep the guns and fighters from flowing in but everyone seems to think that adding more troops in Baghdad will be the answer when it won't.
Leogirl...I'm a huge supporter of us being in Iraq too, but I think you have to acknowledge that he is citing facts...
2006-12-20 07:59:17 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Bush screwed up, but what's he supposed to do now? Pull everyone out and say to the people: "I'm sorry, I screwed up, but my intentions were good"? Noooo....you know that's not gonna happen, they'll only come after us here. We need a tactical military genius to solve this problem.
2006-12-20 08:46:06 · answer #7 · answered by mstrywmn 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
america destroyed iraq, in the name of instilling democracy. before then iraq was a stable country and net exporter of oil. america saw iraq as infringing human rights. america failed to study the existing instituitions in iraq.what is the point of taking all the military to iraq to do overhaul and then post american expatriates to start reconstruction.
2006-12-20 08:36:20 · answer #8 · answered by PETER N 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
You won't get any of the progress we are making from the media.
But then again, I suspect that you aren't really looking for anything positve as much as you are looking for reasons to hate Bush.
2006-12-20 08:16:18 · answer #9 · answered by Time to Shrug, Atlas 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Halliburton stock is up, making Cheney richer.
2006-12-20 11:15:29 · answer #10 · answered by bettysdad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋