Bush Plan for more troops.........................?

Question

I think overall we will save lives by adding more troops so that we can overwhelm them and take care of the conflict alot faster. I know that it means putting more troops in danger but if I were still in the military I would be proud to go and finish this.

Answer 1

haha......this plan aint gonna work buddy. bush is a dumbass.

Answer 2

If we have so many troops over there who is protecting us? how many troops are here to respond in case of a full scale attack on the u.s.? Just a thought I had. I heard two very good arguements on TV last night. One based on the line "were not the worlds 911, time to worry about ourselves." they also threw in there that we already won the war staying makes no difference. whether we leave now or later makes no difference. the bad people will still come back and try to take over when we arent so prominent. The other arguement I cant remember lol.

Answer 3

I agree that people in the military have a job to do & they knew this when they signed up. I agree with that part of it. However, how long is this going to have to go on? Is sending in 20,000 more troops really going to END this? Isn't that just replacing the ones we've lost? I don't know. I'm skeptical. I hope it'll save lives by adding the troops. I think maybe they should've been sent in sooner, though, instead of waiting 'til so many lives have been taken. I'm not arguing with your statement because I know that you may be right. I just fear that maybe you're not~

Answer 4

So, your question is...? To draw all of the non-thinking, never studied history type people out into the open? And then what? Listen (read) all of their rants and sedious commentary? Had the Army done its job and sealed the borders the first time around, all of this would be a mute point now. As it stands though, we must now seal those borders and then take on those trapped in country, one by one until we have exterminated the entire lot. For the Iraqi people, it is a matter of survival and the wish for self-determination. For the Iranians and Syrians, it's about getting the Iraqi oil. So, the question is: what can we do diplomatically to lessen their desparation? The Iranians are sitting on the world's third largest known oil deposit. They're paying $.38 a gallon at the pumps. Their government is not reinvesting in R&D. Their wells are now over 50 years old and their rate of production is falling 13% a year. They cannot keep up with supply and demand. Last year, they exported nothing! They are being forced by their own consumption rates to import. The U.S. has frozen most of their assets and between the U.S. and the U.N., the sanctions are really beginning to squeaze them dry. Desparate people tend to commit desparate acts.
As for the other knuckle heads who've responded with nothing but partisan garbage, they are just that. Knuckle heads.

*the Next Day*

Well done Espana Chica! You know, if you really want to look at how rediculous the AP News Service is with their agenda of ramming down our throats the body counts. Consider this: The average loss of life (per month) in WW I was around 98,000! In 1944, Patton drove the 3d Army across France after the D-Day invasion. He averaged a loss of 1,300 men a month. But, between 08November and 07December 0f 1944, he averaged a loss of 812 men a day! So, when you look at the numbers posted by the AP, remember, at just over 3,000 in 3 years, that equates out to something around 2.7-2.8 men a day. And for those of you who think I'm rather cold about these statistical facts, please understand, I personally trained about half of all the Marines there. I've known more than just a few of them personally and have also felt the sting of death where as most of you couldn't even give a single name of one man or woman serving over there. I did my time in the sand box. And when I came home, you all waved your little American flags and called me "Hero." I never fet like one and still don't understand why you would call me that. Now, SSgt Garza, L/Cpl Snyder and the nine others I lost in three nights of fighting, they deserve that title a lot more than me. When I got home, I cried like a baby. Not even manly. And, the truth be told, I still don't sleep well at night. I usually try and avoid sleep. Yep. Mr. "Hero." I'm no hero. I just did my job. So I guess the question then becomes this. I did my twenty for you. What have you folks done for the country?

Answer 5

20,000 won't overwhelm them, but it's just enough for 'clear and hold' if it works. Need lot more to overwhelm and bulldose insurgence. Bush always says it is struggle for our freedom and life, but put all that burden on just volunteer forces without calling for draft, calling on citizens to conserve energy..etc. He's asking awful lot from relatively small number of Americans. If it is epic struggle for free people of the world as he says why doesn't he do whatever he can to add more troops even if it means calling for draft? Instead he propose troop surge that is essentially just existing troops going on overtime.

It's not fair to put those 140000 or so people to work overtime in hostile country to secure our future. He's taking our troops for granted and doesn't realize backwardness of his claims about this so called global struggle.

Answer 6

But really what are we finishing???? 21,000 troops is nothing. We should either add 250,000 so we can out number them or we just get out of there. Yeah if we leave there will be a civil war....didnt our country have a civil war? yes...I am tired of looking after other countries. But then again..they have the oil and that is why we are involved anyway.
Im tired of thinking about it...Im done with it, and have that freedom to choose to ignore this.

Answer 7

Why do people think adding more troops will do anything? Do you think the insurgents will magically disappear? When Iraq has complete open borders it's pretty easy for these guys to walk right in and join the battle.

Answer 8

My response to this question is practical: if we have 10 trillion in national debt how are we paying for this?

I also firmly believe we are going to leave at some point and a Civil war will re-erupt. It is most critical to the solution that so many foreign powers are involved and interested in the outcome. The Sunni's have friends and the Shiite's have theirs and both will supply arms and provide will to fight when the time comes.

Answer 9

Well were about 340,000 soldiers short by all accounts--

Overwhelming? The only thing overwhelming is the Bush Regime's greed for oil.
http://www.cephas-library.com/nwo/nwo_privatizing_iraq.html

Are some Iraqi's just plain terrorist's or are they just acting like we did during the revolution? Was the Boston Tea Party a terrorist act?

Our only enemy resides at 1400 Pennsylvania Ave. when you listen to the people and correlate the facts--

Answer 10

20,000 more troops will put troop levels back to what they were 2 years ago. I guess we were overwhelming the enemy in 2005.

Answer 11

How is going from 130,000 to 150,000 going to make any sort of change? If things have gotten this horrible with 130,000 troops in place already, then we are just sending people to be slaughtered.