2007-01-11 16:47:52 · 16 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
Most "doubters" can agree, no one is doubting the troops, we're doubting their leaders. Just because people are concerned that their troops are being misused, doesn't mean they're unpatriotic.
2007-01-11 16:56:26 · answer #1 · answered by The Maestro 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Only an idiot thinks we can "win" in Iraq.
Iran supports the Shiites. They are in control of the government, so even if we "win" all we are doing is giving Iran a puppet government in the region, making Iran stronger. Does that sound like winning to you?
Of course, Al Sadr, who is also a Shiite, hates foreign control, so he might be used to curb Iranian control....
Unfortunately, Al Sadr is running the Shiite death squads, and he hates America, so if he gains power, we still lose.....
But the Sunnis hate Al Sadr, so maybe they can stop him. Of course, the Sunnis are the insurgents we've been fighting from the start, so if they win, we still lose....
Of course, the Kurds hate the Sunnis, so maybe they can attack them for us. Of course, the Kurds are sheltering the Kurdish terrorists who are attacking Turkey as part of a separatist movement, so they are no bed of roses either.
But the Al Queda operatives don't want any of these parties in control. They prefer the chaos. So maybe we should just let them run the country.....Oh, wait. Those were the bad guys we were pretending to be invading Iraq to stop in the first place.....
It's easy to sit there like a moron and say "I think we are going to win, and I support the troops so I am a better American than you". But what you are really saying is "I have no #*$& idea what the hell is going on over there, and can't be bothered to learn the reality."
2007-01-11 17:02:49 · answer #2 · answered by truth be told 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
I don't think any American ever doubted the troops, just the idiots making the decisions. At this point in time, Bush will not salvage any good memory of his presidency, it's a lost cause for that, so he needs to eat his crow and save some lives. If the Iraqi's want to blow themselves up, I say we stand back-like in Kuwait. Then go help them clean the mess up, when their done killing each other. No country interfered with America's civil war. We are just getting in between some biatch slapping and getting a slap here and there. Only, the slaps are costing Valuable American lives.
2007-01-11 17:01:18 · answer #3 · answered by grey smily 3 · 0⤊ 2⤋
lol...You're funny.
We will not win in Iraq. As much as we'd like to. It ain't happening. Just doing rudimentary research on the culture over there and you'll see that our efforts are going to be useless. How many times have we had to take Baghdad since we liberated the country? This is like the fourt time, and we're IN Baghdad.
What Bush is doing is not new. In fact it's been policy for awhile now. He just gave it a new name. Maybe if he had listened to people in the know, not the ones Cheney and Rumsfeld trotted out to see him, we'd have been successful. Instead, he bought into this entire rosy scenario that anyone with half a brain saw as flawed. The entire Iraq invasion was doomed from the start because this Admin choose to hear only what they wanted to hear. Heaven help you if you told them different. Allowing Bush to run this war was the biggest plunder.
2007-01-11 16:58:14 · answer #4 · answered by darkemoregan 4 · 4⤊ 2⤋
No. I doubt everything. I don't think they are going to succeed but if I am wrong I will say so and accept the fact. If you are wrong will you face the fact or will you just blame someone else and say they could have succeeded if it weren't for such and such blah blah blah.
My reasons for doubting there success are simple. The Iraqis in power are struggling for more power. Corruption is rampant and people are having to rely on malitias. Keeping troops over there, even sending more troops over is going to do nothing if the people in charge refuse to make things better. Some of them do want to make things better, but for the most part it seems the politicians over there make the ones we got over here look like saints.
2007-01-11 16:53:57 · answer #5 · answered by Memnoch 4 · 2⤊ 2⤋
I can honestly say that at the outset, I felt the American people would have the moxie to see this one through - especially following the aftermath of Viet Nam. Did we learn nothing?
I still believe we can win in Iraq.
But we cannot win in Iraq if we have to fight two different fronts - the Islamic terrorists in Iraq and the liberals on the home front.
2007-01-11 17:11:45 · answer #6 · answered by LeAnne 7 · 0⤊ 4⤋
My only thoughts concerning the troops throughout the failed invasions in the Middle East were either prayers or concerns about their being shipped off to die for corporate profit. I hate the government that sends young men to die so they can line their pockets. We the People cannot stand this abomination any longer. Throw the bastards out NOW!
2007-01-11 16:53:46 · answer #7 · answered by eatmorec11h17no3 6 · 2⤊ 3⤋
What exactly will "winning" look like? 10,000 rather than 3000 dead American troops? 100 thousand rather than 30 thousand permanently injured troops? A million rather than a half million dead innocent Iraqi men women and children???????
2007-01-11 17:05:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋
I've never doubted the American Soldier. He/She is better trained, better equipped, better educated and more deadly than any other soldier on the planet.
I doubt the leadership that will send 21,000 more of them so another government can have "breathing room". Is that what our soldiers are for? To give another government "breathing room"?
2007-01-11 16:58:01 · answer #9 · answered by tranquility_base3@yahoo.com 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
US are not in war in Iraq, the war is over for a long time.
US send their soldiers to death for repairing the bullshits made in Iraq and assure a little of the safety they've stolen to Iraqian people.
2007-01-11 16:55:59 · answer #10 · answered by Agathe 5 · 1⤊ 3⤋