What is wrong with the United States government for sending more toops to Iraq?

Question

I'm puzzled on this why keep on sending troops to Iraq..do you agree on this ? why and why not..

Answer 1

We keep trying to win the war over there. It is more dangerous for us pull out before our goals are met.

Answer 2

What is wrong with this is that it should have been done at the beginning of the war. Thousands of lives have been wasted because there were not enough troops there in the first place. Bush and his generals thought they had enough and were proved mistaken, so now they finally wisen up to the fact. A little too late I think, they could have taken control of the area, set curfews, maintained border security and then over time withdrawn troops if the situation was warranted. Now they are doing it when they have already shown the enemy that they had weaknesses at the start. They fed on that and picked off too many ill defended troops. Bush should have prolonged entry until he could have taken Iraq totally undercontrol but there seemed to be the idea that this would be easy and only so many troops were required. Join the army, see the world! This could have been the instance at the start but it turned out to be Join the army, die in Iraq! Too many troops in a situation like this is never enough, more were needed and they turned that idea aside like they were ignorant of the numbers of insurgents coming into Iraq from other countries. Military rules broken from the getgo, never underestimate the strength of your enemy. They did and now they are trying to correct the problem when it should have been their focus 4 years ago. Don't take a sandwich to a banquet. War is hell and hell it's a war means come ready to fight and fight to win! Bush sent troops into battle with no body armour and no one to watch their backs. They declared victory before the war even got started. The generals who said the troop level was sufficient should have been sent back to boot camp for more training. In fact I can recall a few Generals who actually resigned or were recalled by the army or Bush because they felt the troop level was insufficient and they did not want to be part of the war because they knew it was futile. They wanted to avoid another Viet Nam and in doing so created yet another version of it but this time in an almost dessert environment.

Answer 3

Bush is trying to be mr I was the to bring true stability to the region so that his legacy as president isnt the complete disaster that its off to be anyway.
He eyes IRAN,because if he disarms IRAN as a threat, that initself would make everyone from Israel to SAudi Arabia in the region happier than a clam, and thats the only way he could make everyone forget about this disaster hes forced us into.

Why send more troops?
As a distracting effort to NOT have to admit he was wrong and be man enough to cash out of a failing situation.

There are bush supporters true and through, that will always defend him.
BUT How can you remain loyal to a president whom both sides of congress agree that US Troops were sent under false pretenses -- for the WMD that were never there in the first place?

How can you support a president who fires every general who disagrees with him, just so he can do as he pleases?

The fact of the matter is that BUSH had it easy in his first 6 years of office, as he owned both sides of congress with both republican majorities that allowed him to do whatever he wanted.
And now that democrats have challenged his judgement, its al now coming out what a comlete moron hes been.

Why democrats havent begun impeachment proceedings is because democrats are part to blame.Yes they had to follow suit when republicans owned congress...but now...you have a president who has less than 1/3 the support of the american people, whos misled the american troops, congress into false pretenses about the war, whos responsibile for 3000+ deaths and wants to continually stay a course because his own family is not in harms way -- well what does a president have to do to be impeached????

But then again its because democrats dont have the balls to do it.
why..because all politicians care about is committing as enough as possible to be elected another term.

Our political system!

P.S.
you want a plan.
Simple
Contain the area of IRAQ at enemy borders, syria iran, etc.
Divide the 3 groups of people with 2 inner borders -- new military installations
Warn all countries there will be no invasion of any of the 3 newly created states..i.e. iran, syria..etc, or immediate action will be taken equivalent to when saddam invaded kuwait.

Then you set time frame for iraqi governement to come up with a fair division of the oil each group wants part of.

Our troops stay safely at each of the borders, while each of the 3 newly establihes states handles its own insurgents,.

this would contain any insurgents into that speciic state.
and U.N force could cleaqr through each of the 3 states bringing about stability.
BUT THE ANSWER IS CONTAINTMENT AND SEPARATION

Hows that for a fair, logical solution that forces IRAQ, and the UN to take action, keeps US troops distanced from all terror with smartly positioned new installations...and keeps all Iraqs enemy's at bay.

How hard is that????

Answer 4

what i can understand is that when the government owns you as they do for military purposes you do as they say. they train your mind and life to be obedient and that's what you do. the trouble is they can not reverse the effect of their training, some minds are strong enough to restrain but those are few. once a mind is trained to do combat and the wars have all been won or lost there remains the desire to remain doing what it has been trained to do. and some return to their home land with training still active, and so the weapons meant for wars on other land are returned to where they came.i don't believe they see them as troops or the son and daughter having parents that love them , they have been changed to a weapon of flesh.

Answer 5

first i agree way send more troops? The war is no longer our problem it wasn't our issue in the first place if we concentrate on our problems here at home the country would be so much more happier instead of investing our money on stupid sh*t we should be trying to fix our economy make Americans happier then trying to make American family sad, torn and miserable

Answer 6

Most people would like to see this war ended so it does not make much sense to send more troops, there must be a logic there that is escaping me.

Answer 7

Arrogance compounded by ignorance, the trademark of the Bush boys otherwise known as the "Axis of Error"