What does everyone think about the president's choice of sending 20,000 more soilder's to Iraq?

Answer 1

He is an idiot! He needs to pull out all troops and let the people of Iraq deal with their own mess.

Answer 2

I support our troops but not the war. That being said, the 20,000 troops are useless for a few reasons. First, it is not 20,000 additional troops but about 9,000 new troops with the remainder of the 20,000 being the retention of troops who had been scheduled to leave Iraq. Second, these troops don't do much beyond the duties of acting as peace officers and traffic cops. Let them go seek out the enemies and defeat them. Third, even if we get rid of all the terrorist and extremist elements in Iraq they will return once we leave. While we here in the US view Iraq as one country and Iraqis as one people that is not necessarily the case. The different groups of people have long standing dislikes for one another that were suppressed under Saddam Hussein's rule. It will take them a long time to work this pent up rage out of their systems.

Answer 3

I hope all the remaining Bush supporters (you know who you three are) realize all he's doing now is playing politics. Sending 20,000 troops in will accomplish nothing, but all the suckers will be sooooo happy when he starts withdrawing troops prior to the next election cycle. "Bush Recalls 30,000 Troops" will be a headline in six months and you'll be suckered into thinking the whole mess is coming to end.
If he wanted to do it right, and actually had a reasonable plan, he could boast the troop strength by 50% with the help of coalition forces.

Answer 4

Just more of the same failed policy. Six months ago, there were approx. 150,000 troops in Iraq. Now, there are approx. 130,000. Adding 21,000 is an actual gross increase of a whopping 1,000 troops. Taking into account off duty time, that means that around 250 more U.S. troops will be on streets of Iraq at any particular time. Considering also the the British are decreasing their troop level by 3,000, there is an actual net loss of 2,000 "coalition" troops deployed.

All in all, another smoke and mirrors act to cover a failed mission under the direction of total incompetents.

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Answer 5

I think it's mainly pointless. In one way it's a good thing cause some of our guys over there will be able to come home, but at the same time the guys there now should never have been there in the first place. We've been in this war long enough and have gotten no where. My brother and dad are now going for their second tour, and this one as just as pointless as the first one. I hate the fact that they have to risk their lives (all our troops for that matter) again, and for what?? This war isn't for our freedoms, or our safety. It's supposedly for a countries freedoms that never even asked us to be there.

Answer 6

gee, since it is such a big secret, I bet the bad guys in Iraq will stand out on the street corners and wait to be picked off, one by one...
when they could just disappear for a while until the surge is over
like they have done about a billion times already

Answer 7

How many more have to be sent there to die before he realizes it's time to leave? Why is this guy still the president? If it was a demcrate doing this the right would be screaming for impeachment.

Answer 8

Name one war against a guerilla, terrorist combatant on their own soil where the occupier won.

In US history, the Vietnam conflict and the Revolutionary War come to mind as examples of how rare it is. There are examples on foreign soil, I believe - but in those cases the victorious alien force used brutal, ruthless force.

Answer 9

i think he hasn't heard anything that people have been telling him for four years now.
we freakin' tell him to stop the war, and his response is to send 20.000 soldiers to iraq!
no logic, whatsoever.
i think that he should listen to his people, to what the americans want, or else he'll fall real hard. what he's doing is synonym with autocracy, not democracy.

Answer 10

Not having accesss to the information used to make the decision, its hard to be subjective and informed about the need, if 20K now will get everyone home quicker - go for it.