What can Bush be thinking? He plans to remove more troops from Afghanistan and move them to Iraq?

Question

Afghanistan harbored the terrorists who attacked the US. And there was world support for military action there. NATO has been pleading for more troops -- not fewer. And now Bush plans to take troops away!!

Answer 1

G W Bush is not really after Bin Laden. He is after the OIL in Iraq. If Afghanistan had OIL, there could not have been any need to invade Iraq and thus avoided the creation of chaos there.

The presence of NATO in Afghanistan is just an excuse. Why don't do it the other way around, NATO troops to take care of IRAQ and U.S. troops to take care of Afghanistan?. After all, the responsibility of dealing with WMD's and chemical weapons are really more appropriate to NATO's security role in the Middle-East. The issue of fighting 9/11 terrorists is what the U.S. must really be after, and Afghanistan is the place where these terrorists are hiding.

Answer 2

If moving troops from Afghanistan is GWB's intentions, it must be because NATO has taken over most US responsibilities there. The US has maintained forces in Afghanistan that were not attached to NATO. These must be the troops you're talking about.

The US has every right to pull out troops in Afghanistan who are not assigned to NATO. It's like having two cooks in the kitchen!

For all intent and purposes.Afghanistan is now a NATO project, and is no longer under American command.

Answer 3

Nato is pleading for more troops in the sector where it controls. The U.S. controls a different section of Afghanistan, which is more peaceful, and the situation in Iraq is a little more urgent, not saying I agree with this, I wish some of the European countries would send more troops to Afghanistan, Canada and Britain have been most helpful however. We have over 20,000 soldiers in Afghanistan, it is an international mission, most countries have fewer than ten percent of the soldiers we have in Afghanistan there.

Answer 4

Belgium, Canada, Denmark, France, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, United Kingdom, Turkey, Germany, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia are all members of NATO. All of said nations have significant militaries, many of which are not deployed anywhere. If NATO would like more troops, the members should send them.

Answer 5

retreating from afghanistan isn't a reliable theory. If he sends troops out whose sending greater in? NATO isnt all its members dont prefer to. NAto would desire to deliver greater troops are Russia would desire to get entangled besides i think of to help the individuals as they are as allies now. i think of that if Bush withdraws from Iraq he would desire to deliver 20,000 troops to Afghanistan . And the taliban and al qaeda at the instant are not based in afghanistan yet interior the border with Pakistan.

Answer 6

He has obviously never thought about anything that did not concern oil or money!! Bush and thinking in one sentence creates an oxy-moron. And the longer you spend trying to figure out what is going on in his pea brain, the longer you will run in circles like a dog chasing his tail!!

good luck on that

Answer 7

NATO needs to quit riding on the back of the US and fork up more troops! Just because you can't fathom the genius of George W. Bush doesn't make him stupid. It's probably over your head. Start looking up and beyond!

Answer 8

Damage control

Answer 9

People are still being sent there and it's time that the U.S. forces some countries that have refused to step up to finally do their part instead of sitting back and whining about what they think we are doing wrong. You have no right to complain unless you are actually doing something about it.

Answer 10

To answer that question, it requires that we believe the premise that Bush was thinking. I am of the belief that he has quit with that some time ago.