Everybody seems to love to sit fat and happy and playing arm chair general while bitching about not giving the troops out there any help instead of endorsing the war effort. The more troops in the sooner we get the hell of there.
You can not expect the troops that are there already to do every thing. I can understand the teenagers of today don't want to go they like to sit in foront of video games and computers all day.. The real men are fighting .. .I know that is a hard pill to swallow but it is true. They whined in the 60's and they are cowering now.
2007-01-09 16:44:42 · 9 answers · asked by caciansf 4 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Our troops are tired of being cycled through over and over again. We need fresh troops. We need a draft.
2007-01-09 16:48:23 · answer #1 · answered by Gary 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
There is nothing to win. The best that can be hoped for is that through attrition, the Shi'ite majority will ethnically cleanse the Sunni minority out of existence. And then the Iraq "government" will install Muqtada al Sadr as the ruling religious power, a-la-Iran, and there goes the neighborhood.
This whole mess was all about oil, there was no reason to start conflicts with something as ruthless and comitted as an Arab. To wit: Allah rewards martyrs (just like Jehovah rewards his believers), with the promise of heaven. Why pick a fight with somebody like that? That's just crazy. All for money. The military industrial complex is awash with our dollars, e.g., Haliburton.
Apparently humans are still warlike, and we can debate all we want, but there it is. If that's a given, then you made a poor choice for an enemy. Saudi Arabia is and always has been a great stabilzier of the region. They didn't like Saddam anymore than we do, but they drew the line at having anything to do with attacking him. If there was a need for war, S.A. would be the first to invite us to land at their military airstrip to mount the mother of all wars. And heck, if S.A.'s in, the rest of suck-up oil hungry Europe and China are all in too. Then you'd have a war you could win, and for reasons of self-defense, not for greed. The payback for 911 should have stayed with Afghanistan. Nobody in the world blamed the U.S. for toasting the Taliban. They understood.
2007-01-10 01:08:42 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The troops there cannot do everything. I read an article that said there were 50-60,000 combat troops in Iraq out ot the 147,000 there. As I have always understood it there were supposed to be a minimum of 4 times as many combat troops in combat support roles. This is so our military can run efficiently.
The thing I see wrong is that we have combat troops in the roles of combat suopport and vice versa. This is not very effective in quelling an insurgency.
While my grandson was there in Iraq they had a job of rebuilding 6 schools while fighting an insurgency. The year he was there they got one done.
2007-01-10 01:07:25 · answer #3 · answered by eks_spurt 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I agree we Americans are sitting back and allowing CNN to tell us what to think about the war. First let the Generals do what they do best. Think up of ways to kill people and to break things using our finest. We are engaged in a "nice war" which is getting our boys killed.
If I was king for a day I would tell the United Nations, the world and the Democrats to kiss my butt. Then I would advise my Generals to tell me what is needed to win the war. Secondly I would allow them to use what ever means necessary to secure the Country. Finally if Iran can not butt out then additional troops may be necessary to allow their fearless leader to go the way of the Iraqi leader.
Remember we were in Germany for over seven years before it calmed down and as for today's teenagers, I am very proud of them for this years high enlistment. I just wish I was twenty years younger.
As for the whinny liberals it is not that they are for or against the war they are just against Bush and are using this topic to take political jabs at him.
2007-01-10 01:07:00 · answer #4 · answered by JAMES H 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Good for Bush, for taking this stand, as you KNOW it cannot be popular among so many. I say it is good for him, because I think he really thinks it will be best. He does not want to screw up this effort, and would NOT send them in if it didn't seem best to do. He has the finest of intelligence, and not one of us knows all he does. If nothing else, it makes sense he is doing what he is, if only he did it a tad sooner perhaps. Better late than never, to send in some back up, since he is getting the wrath anyway. He probably hoped he wouldn't need to. I am glad he is thinking of the Americans, over what is the most popular thing to do in many of their ignorant eyes. He knows we would pay big time, long term, for backing out before the job was done. I say, good for him.
2007-01-10 01:07:26 · answer #5 · answered by oceansnsunsets 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We have been there for over five years and still not seem to have a strategy yet. Except for sending more troops in. I don't think we went in with a strategy. Sending more troops in isn't going to help the situation. We are the invaders in that country. We are the ones who set the curphews and tell these people what they can or cannot do. It is our tanks and our troops roming their streets. The more troops we send in the more resistance we will probably get. We created this mess by overthrowing Saddam. If the Iraqi people wanted him gone and wanted democracy they should have done it not us.
2007-01-10 01:05:25 · answer #6 · answered by j 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
the troops need to be unshackled by the rules of engagement.. the troops cannot fire unless fired directly upon......
they need to be allowed to fight a actual combat war not this sham of politicial corectness
2007-01-10 00:52:40 · answer #7 · answered by lethander_99 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
this is a war of attrition! and sorry to break the news to you but you are being a arm chair general......sorry.
2007-01-10 00:51:44 · answer #8 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Smarter bombs. thats whats required
2007-01-10 02:06:51 · answer #9 · answered by Elcie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋