How would you get out of it? How would you erase some of the debt the Bush Administration has created? I would take temporary control of the oil to pay off the money money we have invested in the war. Anyone who aposed, I would consider an enemy and would have shot.
2006-12-26 12:37:21 · 13 answers · asked by Girly Q 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Government
I think I would do what we did in the very beginning of this
war.....I'd use planes to zero the bombs into caves, hideouts,
and where the terrorists' fire is coming from. In other words,
I'd just wipe them out, bring our troops home, and be done
with it.
2006-12-26 12:45:40 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
Well, I would never have started it in the first place, but that's beside the point.
I would bring in a 'surge" not of military, but of trained riot police. I would enforce a police presence, not a military one. I would then institute a sort of Marshall plan, to get the economy back up and working, lowering unemployment and thus eliminating one of the large reasons that people have been fighting over there. As that progresses, I would withdraw all US forces leaving behind an Iraq that may be separated into different nations (Kurds, a Sunni state and a Shia state) and respect the differences. I would not force democracy, but have each region (based on Population) elect a representative to help form a constitution. Nothing would be predetermined. It would be behind closed doors in a secure compound.
Once all that was done, a massive pullout.
2006-12-26 20:46:27 · answer #2 · answered by The Big Box 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If I were president, I would not have started a war on Iraq when Bush did. Sure Saddam was a terrible dictator who should have eventually been removed, but not without a plan for peace and recovery and not by the US while we were still engaged in a war in Afghanistan.
At this point, I would do everything within my ability to empower the Iraqi government and people. That means providing quick, effective training for their military and police forces. Bush was wrong to disband them, only to have to start all over to build them back up. Iraq needs to be able to govern itself, and since we broke their system, we have to help them fix it. The solution is now a political one, not a military one from the US standpoint; pouring more of our own troops into Iraq is not a solution.
2006-12-26 21:50:41 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would begin by nationalizing all U.S. oil interests. If our children have to die providing security for oil delivery, we as a nation have a right to those interests. And, we should at least get the funds out of those interests to pay for the unspeakably irresponsible national debt that Bush/Cheney/Republicans have plunged this nation in to for generations in their greedy piggyfest. Then, I'd bring our troops home. The tribal/religious lunacy of killing each off must stop and THEY must stop it, on the promise that I would cease paying Isreal $30,000 per year for every man, woman and child in Isreal, that I would remove all nuclear weapons from Isreal, and that I would give them Bush to do with as they want as soon as they agree to form a lasting union of the common person there, not of the decadent, bribed Middle Eastern royalty and elite. I would also offer this nation's entire resources to help them remove that corrupt elite and to nationalize their own oil interests.
2006-12-26 21:09:20 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Please! WHAT 'OIl"? The U.S. is already stealing Iraqi oil! I haven't invested a dime in these wars! The President did! He has already acknowledged that he will leave Iraq to the next president. So I guess we must all wait patiently. The debt will remain unpaid and will continue to grow until George Bush leaves! There is no need for dreaming..........
2006-12-26 21:00:18 · answer #5 · answered by rare2findd 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I would never have gotten us involved there in the 1st Place Our fight was in Afghanistan hunting down Bin-Laden Who Bush let escape. As for Iraq I would just withdraw all of our troops and send the ones near the end of their tour home and the balance back to Afghanistan and into Pakistan in search of Ossama. I would let Iraq sort out its problems by itself Which its what we should have done there in the 1st place. If the Iraqi people wanted to get rid of Saddam I would have given them whatever weapons they needed to do the gob But I would not have sent even 1 of our soldiers over there to do it for them!
2006-12-26 21:29:46 · answer #6 · answered by bisquedog 6 · 1⤊ 1⤋
If i were to take over this mess i would pull the troops out now,just think all the money Bush wasted would have started some good work programs.no one would have to sleep on the streets
2006-12-26 21:16:36 · answer #7 · answered by groverpawhurt 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
no matter what this whole pointless war is about (*cough* oil *cough*) i would end it quite simply. remove all of our troops from iraq. and simply bomb the country so frequently and to the extent that nothing in that vicinity was alive anymore. were talking wasteland it. then do the same to the surrounding countries because they too must have oil. oh and it would bring peace to the middle east. sure it might not be the peace that all the anti-war peace loving people are asking for, but it is still peace.
2006-12-26 21:17:49 · answer #8 · answered by xi3reakeroi3cx 5 · 0⤊ 3⤋
It's not a WAR. It's an invasion and occupation -- for OIL.
With that understanding, how would you handle this if you were president and reviewed all of the mistakes and horrors of the Bush administration.
2006-12-26 20:40:32 · answer #9 · answered by Reba K 6 · 4⤊ 2⤋
The day Saddam is executed, I would declare mission accomplished. No WMD's. No more Saddam. And then just pull all the troops out immediately. That would save $87 billion a year.
2006-12-26 20:47:28 · answer #10 · answered by coconutmonkeybank 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋