What would be your exit stratagey from Iraq, and why?

Question

STRATEGY, got ahead of myself

Answer 1

evacuate all the troops then carpet bombe the entier country.

Answer 2

First I'd outline the plans of what is victory. I can't believe Bush doesn't even want to define victory.
Here would be my reconstruction goals:
1. To create a democratically elected government. That was accomplished.
2. To rebuild Iraq with defined works. The Bush administration defined 3,200 infrastructure projections of which 85% were built as of August 2006.
3. To train and supply the new police and soldiers. The Iraqi president said that should be accomplished by June 2007.
4. To hand over land back to the Iraqi government. There are 18 providences of which 3 have been handed back to Iraq's government and there will be a couple more by April. I heard that all of it is suppose to be handed back to Iraq before the second quarter of 2008.

I think the U.S. should start packing and leaving in January of 2008 except for maybe the 14,000 advisors they plan on sending to Iraq to speed things up. Then those guys should leave before 2009 if things go well.

Answer 3

Partition the country again. Institute tight border controls between the Sunni, Kurd and Shia countries. Give people a period of amnesty to decide whether they want to go reside in the country of their ethnic background. Once the three countries are individually functional, have settled down, and can have normalized relations again, leave. Baghdad needs to be taken care of by a multinational U.N. peace-keeping force.
Iraq was an artificial creation of British colonialism - that's why it's still fraught with such raw ethnic tension. There is no reason to hold on to this colonial creation for any other reason than to avoid losing face - which is simply petty. Right now, the U.S. is being resented as a colonial power - and the history of Iraq has simply not given the locals any reason to believe otherwise.

Answer 4

The Bush strategy is the only sensible one. It's the operational details that have been screwed up. There's no reason to want a quick exit. After all, we still have troops in Germany and Japan. Speaking of those countries, there were terrorist bombings there a couple of decades ago. It's quite possible to supress terrorists, but one must have a strategic, not just a tactical, plan, and it seems most non-miltary people don't really delineate, any more than they're able to delineate the difference between 2d and 4th generation warfare.

Answer 5

IF our troops leave Iraq, it would make sense to me that they left en masse. In other words, I would feel very afraid for the dwindling number of troops left behind in a slow withdrawal. They barely have enough numbers as is (which is why we're sending even MORE troops over there while we're asking questions about an exit strategy). All or nothing is my exit strategy. I imagine Muqtada el Sadr would be the new honcho. My sense is that he would be easier to deal with that Saddam Hussein ever was.

Answer 6

My exit strategy in Iraq woudl be the same as we had in both Germany and Japan at the end of WW2 --- Do NOT LEAVE UNTIL THE JOB IS DONE. The rebuilding of Iraq into a stable, democratic regime will not happen overnight. It will not happen in a year, five years or even a decade. It will happen on the same time horizon that Japan and Germany took--- Decades. When we went into Iraq, the President shoudl have been up front with the American public and told them that once we enter Iraq and depose Saddam, our presence in Iraq will be required for several adminstrations. You do not build a country in a couple of years. It took from 1776 until 1784 for our Founding Fathers to put George Washington into power as our First President. That was 8 years. And we were United!!! It will take At least that long if not more to make Iraq a stable democracy. Inceidently, that 8 years did not produce a stable Democracy. It was not until several administrations later that we learned that what our Founding Fathers had built was stable. We shoudl be prepared to have troops in Iraq for 20-50 years as a stableizing force if what we leave is to be a lasting democracy. Remember, we are fighting thousands of years of tradition. You cannot supplant thousands of years of violent tradition with a peaceful and stable democracy in just a couple of years. It will take a couple of generations for that to happen. It will happen. It will be slow , but it will happen. We must resolve to stay the course. Add more troops --- they are needed, but stay the course.

Answer 7

train an unlimited amount of Iraqi soldiers and get some help from Syria and Iran...but not a lot. Iran is currently helping us rebuild Afghanistan. Why can't Iran do the same for Iraq? Bush just wants the oil fields all to himself.

Answer 8

Pack up and leave immediately and completely. I think Iraq could have been pacified, but that time has long since passed while King George fiddled around. There is no possible way that we can improve the situation by staying.

Answer 9

Leave for a couple months then when they form an army again take'm out cause now you know where they are at, unless they agree to UN inspections if they don't destroy them again, why stick around when you can't see the enemy let them get big again but not too big

Answer 10

Step 1. Leave.

Answer 11

Get out before we rip apart more families.