should the USA send more troops to Iraq?

Question

I say No, Congress should cut off the funding for Iraq, tax payers should not give the Pentagon another $100 billion. If the Pentagon gets $498 billion in 2007, let them spend that. We have a $9 trillion debt projected over the next ten years. Another 40,000 troops would cost tax payers $2.6 billion in the first Year and $4 billion per year after that. More troops would just let Iraqis slack off in taking over for themselves.

Does anyone think Iraq should have a draft first? I do. They need to stand up and be counted. Not one more of our service members should die in Iraq. If another dies there it's on Democrats now. They have the power to cut of the money. Iraqis can be trained in any country. There are 450,000 in Jordan.
They left to avoid the Civil war in Iraq.

Answer 1

I agree with you.

Absolutely no more troops. Bring everyone home now!!!

Answer 2

No...oh no, we can't repell the wrong with more wrong. Both countries are suffering tremendously. More hate is being accumulated by the Iraqi's and us here.
No offense to our soldiers, I admire their bravery but some of them don't know how to deal with the hatred and they, according to the media, go on shooting sprees after the injury of one of their mates. If we want Iraq to embrace democracy we must treat them much different than we are now. It is frustrating, but the war should not be further instituted to begin with.
I agree with you, we need to give them some work so they'd know how to operate the democratic system without us...
You know what's really wierd? I look at the news everyday before school and I never see anything about the US debts. Nine trillion in ten years...that a hell of a lot.

Answer 3

I say YES so long as the draft is re-instituted and we start with members of the Bush and Cheney families as well as all those in their administration. It's real easy to send SOMEONE ELSE'S loved ones into harm's way. Maybe they'd be more cautious and sensible if it's their kinfolk.

I shudder when I think of all the empty chairs around dinner-tables over the Holiday Season---especiallly those that will remain empty FOREVER...and for WHAT? So Halliburton and the like can reap record profits while Americans born after 2096 will still be paying off the debt?

Answer 4

No, no and no. It's not only a matter of money but more importantly, a matter of life for our brave men and women in the military. It is not their fault that Bush and his gang of inept advisers lied about the circumstances for invading Iraq and then ill-prepared for it.

Iraq is now in almost full-fledged civil war and it is only going to get worst. Sending more troops to Iraq only gives more targets of opportunity to the murdering cowards who use the name of a God as an excuse for their barbaric acts.

We need to start getting out ASAP!!

Answer 5

There is only one answer - NO

You can not enforce a foreign civilian peace with military personnel. They are improperly trained for the job of policing civilians, as the numerous stories of prosecutions of the service members assigned to Iraq clearly show. An army has one purpose, to kill enough of an enemy to make them stop fighting or to wipe them out completely, if they will not cease hostile actions.

ANY time you send in the military, (even in our country - see interviews of guardsman about how they felt carry m-16's in Katrina aftermath) to control a civilian population, you are asking for abuse and unnecessary deaths. Not to mention the mental and emotional destruction of the troops that AREN'T injured physically.

I hear everyone discussing the cost of the war and the financial sense withdrawal makes, but I think our more immediate concern should be for our Troops.

They have been short-cycled again and again and delayed in rotation, prevented by stop-loss from leaving (except to hospital or coffin) past their end of obligated service.

I was held past my EAOS for medical hold many years ago, during the first Gulf War, and I was not happy at all. I was at a desk job in the States.

I cannot imagine the hardship and the stress that this adds to both them and their family when they are killed or wounded past the date when they should have been home with their family.

These men and women are literally stuck until who knows when.

It takes months or years to increase the size of the Army. These same soldiers are going to keep this up for how long? Suicide rates have been increasing. Who will they be when they get back? None of the families will get the same person back that they sent. Even our greatest can only be Superman for so long. At what point do we consider it TORTURE to keep our troops under this level of physical and emotional stress?

The Generals are publicly voicing concern, which really concerns me.

These Courageous men and women that have been let down by the Pentagon and this administration so many times already.

The lack of proper armor

The use of radiological weapons, specifically depleted uranium, which when detonated as expected covers EVERYTHING in a fine dust - low on gamma exposure but it is also an alpha emitter which is deadly when inhaled or ingested. Look it up please.

The lack of proper training and protective gear to work in areas where depleted uranium has been used (most of Iraq)

The lack of equipment

The initial shortage of troops to secure the country and it's borders. This not only allowed the terrorists to come to Iraq to make a real mess of a situation we may have been able to handle, But remember "Bring Em ON!"?? Something one can say when one plans to personally participate, but not when one is putting other's lives up as collateral.

The list goes on and on.

(Don't worry though, the twins are safe in South America)

Although I was completely opposed to the war from the beginning, I believe we could have achieved our mission if not for the total incompetence of this Administration and Rumsfield.

At this point I see no point in prolonging the agony of our troop even one more day than necessary. Bring home all of our troops, not just the combat troops. We have plenty of cargo planes to train Iraqis at any one of 130 or so bases around the world. The separation from their normal environment may actually increase the speed at which they are trained.

Withdraw immediately and COMPLETELY from Iraq!!!

Get ready for some big cuts in the wealthy welfare systems for people and corporations. The "Elite" led us here they can help buy our way out with an amply funded closely watched transparent cleanup, reparation, and reconstruction effort.

Haliburton and all other contractors that have profited can join as well donating every dime of their profits to this effort

Cut defense spending by 50% and find Rumsfield's 2+ TRILLION dollars.

Pass Laws to prevent the future use of US troops in any aggressive role anywhere in the world.

The ONLY way to support our troops is to bring them home.

Answer 6

fairly some infantrymen voluntarily pass back to conflict after an injury, i understand amarine who had a prosthetic leg that went back to energetic accountability. magnificent quite. i'm useful some infantrymen are harm yet no longer undesirable sufficient to no longer have the potential to combat, and consistent with possibility theres some SNAFU's in there the place somebody who ought to have been positioned back in yet your expected to end your contract except your harm os badly that the contract may be broken. in case you joined for the the suitable option motives you will have not have been given any undertaking doing this.

Answer 7

No. They shouldn't be there in the first place. Saddam was a "little bit" extreme, but he did a pretty good job of keeping the lid on a civil war. We're just there for the oil and to avenge George Sr.

Answer 8

American governments need to learn that if they wish to dominate and control, do it properly by removing all the institutions of power and install their own just like Great Britian did. It's the only way to do.

Do it fully or not at all. Not this half hearted rubbish.

No, I wouldn't support it and I hope western powers keep out of Iran. There's no need to go there at all.

Answer 9

no no more, Bush thought that what we sent out was going to solve everything, well i believe that he should find a new strategy. if you use a spear to throw a bottle off the window and it doesnt move, why use another spear? find another way

Answer 10

I think if more troops are sent, they should be exclusively for training troops