like his father did in Somalia?
2007-01-09 01:36:37 · 14 answers · asked by The Twist 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
At this point even if our troops pull out there will be a dbacle for someone to be concerned with. Odds are though, we will still have troops there and the next President will have to focuus his or her energies on Iraq first. Then there is the shambles of our international credibility. that is a mess of almost equal size.
2007-01-09 01:42:47 · answer #1 · answered by toff 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
Somalia has been a debacle for years, but it was Clinton who was bragging that "there were no tanks in Mogadishu" because he didn't liek teh image armor sends, so our boys got massacred, they desperately requested a gunship like that which did the job yesterday, but it was denied. Yesterdays performance was long overdue. We owe the Ethiopians a big debt, and in a way Osama Bin Laden because he got the Al Q supporters out in the open where they could be dealt with like men. A lot of the dead and wounded are giving us info along with captured documents, persons from Australia and Canada whose families knew they left for the Middle East to join Al Q are now whining about their deaths, ignoring they broke the terrorism laws of their host countries in not reporting this. Now we have broken a major terrorist apparatus, with the help of Ethiopia who we owe a big thanks. Ethiopia won by not tap dancing around the central issue of political correctness nor listening to the UN. Bush will not leave Iraq in disgrace, Quisling Kennedy is ready to wave the white flag and run away before there is any chance of Bush being able to claim a success. Syria and Iran's government and military are the enemy in Iraq, quite literally, instead of Presidential hopefuls going over there to kiss their butt, we need a unified front that says to Hussein and Iwannajihad "get out of Iraq or we take out hard targets in your country". If we are just going to run away from Iraq, all policy or hope in the Middle East is lost. In fact a President with no other options might just inflict as much harm as he can in his 90 day military option, then resign if it looks like impeachment and be pardoned by his successor, it would be that easy. Trying to do the job diplomatically and conventionally with limited force is the more diplomatic route, and would work if they could convince the world that our nation's leaders are unified, and the daily attrition of servicemen deaths would not effect policy change at home, but CNN keeping daily score of deaths on the world stage is just encouraging more attacks. The blood is on the media's hands as much as anyone else's.
2007-01-09 09:54:49 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Continuing the twist the truth about Somalia, eh? Are you deliberately lying, or are you just ignorant of the truth? Pathetic either way, but there you are!
As for Iraq, what kind of idiot assumed it would be of short duration? Bush said many times before going in that the War on Terror would last many, many years and would require the long-term will of a strong people to succeed. (Hey, thanks for living up to Osama's belief that the US are weak cowards!)
Same with Iraq. He said we were there for the duration, and that we needed to stay as long as it took. This is what he told Congress when they authorized the use of force.
It's too bad that the US is full of cowardly, weak-willed people who follow the Neville Chamberlain school of appeasement and cowardice. It will be the doom of us all if that school of thought is allowed to direct us.
2007-01-09 10:05:01 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yes, he will. Then he will say that he never "lost" in Iraq. He will then blame the next President ( which will probably be a Democrat ) for "losing" Iraq, because the next President will finally withdraw the troops. George Bush won't take responsibility for anything that is his fault.
2007-01-09 09:43:50 · answer #4 · answered by Count Acumen 5 · 2⤊ 2⤋
abosolutely he has already said that what we are doing there is not working and I'm sure that he has no idea how to fix it......the only solution is an immediate withdrawal of our troops and let these bastards blow themselves to Allah and if there is anything left of this country after they are done then you try and work out a solution with a government and people that actually want our help otherwise you are just shooting yourself in the foot and putting our american forces in harms way for no good reason
2007-01-09 09:45:59 · answer #5 · answered by Weapon X 4 · 2⤊ 1⤋
Yep - he won't be around to see what happens - he'll be either sitting in his rocker in Crawford looking at his cowboy boots or on the rubber chicken circuit smirking and having that frat boy grin on his face while more American kids die for his foolishness. This crap in Iraq is self perpetuating. In Vietnam, at least we had a country to fight - in Iraq, we have an entire religion.
2007-01-09 09:42:51 · answer #6 · answered by iwasnotanazipolka 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Somalia, didn't become a Debacle until Clinton got involved.Jesse Jackson and most Dems insisted on that intervention.Iraq,we haven't lost that one yet.It could still succeed.If it's run right.You do want us to succeed,don't you?
2007-01-09 09:48:48 · answer #7 · answered by Dr. NG 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes, of course he will. He has taken absolutely no responsibility for his actions thus far, so why should we expect anything different.
2007-01-09 09:45:56 · answer #8 · answered by Third Uncle 5 · 3⤊ 2⤋
Yes and then he will blame it on the next president.
2007-01-09 09:40:46 · answer #9 · answered by estudiando español 3 · 7⤊ 2⤋
He's going to have to...as this war will be take years, if not decades, to resolve. Nice legacy, George!
2007-01-09 09:42:46 · answer #10 · answered by Super Ruper 6 · 3⤊ 2⤋