what do u think about Bush sending more troops to Iraq?

Answer 1

He's doing the right thing. It's kind of like a Blitzkrieg on Baghdad. That area needs to be contained and controlled because that is where almost all of the trouble is coming from. I was there for 14 months. It is really that bad despite what all of these liberals are crying about who were never there. This troop surge is necessary!

Answer 2

....Thankfully not to many troops died. More people die in parts of Africa from AIDS, and STD. Of corse, since this is a war, people have to die to make a point. If we pull back to soon, we will make the United States look like cowards. So the only option is to keep doing as we are doing, and let the terriorists know that America is a force not to be messed with. Its not only proving this to the Middle East, but Korea as well. Its also an Intimidation factor.

The people in Iraq LOVE the American Troops, because they are protecting them. Terrorists are not the types to want peace. Its part of their religon to be violent. If we pull back, all it would to is let the terriorists have a shear advantage at another attack. America has been doing VERY well with terrorists attacks, and we have not had anything actually go into action since 9/11. We always stop them in their tracks right before they do anything.

I'm not a Republican or a Democrate, but I'm giving simple points, that are obviously correct. If the democrates had a good plan to win the war, I'd go for it. But they have not really come out with anything other than "we will be better than Bush, and we will Win the war!"....unfortunitly, it takes more than words to win a war, it takes actions. And personally, the only way we could win a war, is to destroy the cause of it, and thats exactly what we did.

The United States Military go in for about a 4 year term, (or about that amount of time) after that they can either reissue, or leave. Simple as that.

I'd love to see the troops get out of Iraq and see their families. But currently thats not an option unless we are willing to risk more lives in Iraq and America.

In fact, security like this makes me prowd to be an American.

You can disagre what I had to say, or you can go with it. But if you disagre, all you would be doing is saying yes to winning a war, saving lives, and keeping terrorists running for their lives. Kinda like chess, you can either be on defence, or offence, being on defence will eventually make you loose, but constantly being on offence, the person you are playing against has to constanly change their plans. Thats what we want the terrorists to do. We don't want them to be able to plan another attack, so we keep them running all the time. We make sure they are not doing any harm, and thats all we are doing.

God Bless-

Answer 3

I think that the issue is a complex one with a number of things to consider. I believe the President is doing everything he can to do what he believes is right, and that it is essential for the area to be stabilized or there will be far more problems related to the Middle East ( a takeover of Iraq, perhaps, by Iran or Syria.) The Middle East has always been volatile. Any student of Middle East issues could have predicted that the Sunnis and Shiites would contend with each other, and, like the proponants of Communism used to do, terrorists are using this dislike of the two groups for each other to their own advantage. We've seen how it works in other areas, as well -- such as the Arabic cartoon issue of depicting a cartoon character of Mohammed and the area of those questionning the truth of the Holocaust. You send someone in to stir up trouble, get others to grumble, and pretty soon you have a riot on your hands and people get hurt. We in the US are used to differing viewpoints, but in many countries a different viewpoint can cost the people their lives. Terrorists are playing on their fears and the areas the Sunnis and Shiites don't agree on. The Middle East has many uneducated people, and they have brought their children up with prejudices -- which tells me that it is very important that they change what they teach their children and after about 50 years we'll see improvement and be able to work toward peace. With the deeply ingrained prejudices and lack of education (other than religious) there really isn't a chance for peace in what is left of my lifetime. That is what I truly believe, based on having an educated knowledge of history and an understanding of human nature. Lawrence of Arabia talked much in his book about how those in Arabia are very emotional. He was able to get them to work together by promising them the spoils of war -- they got to take the plunder, and so they worked together for that, but remained very loyal to their individual tribes in any conflict. The history of the war that the Arabic nations declared on Israel when the UN gave them their land (the size of NJ and the only place jewish people can say is theirs versus the 26 arabic nations belonging to the arabic people) also demonstrates the emotionality of the arabic people. They can be whipped up easily into riotus behavior. It is very sad that irresponsible people can use those less fortunate to try to gain their own ends. All this to say that I do believe that we should leave the troop size to the military and ensure their needs are met. President Bush has the misfortune of having a determined democrat majority against the Iraq war for party political reasons and the additional difficulty of other nations declaring a decrease in their troops in the Iraq region as we announce an increase in ours, which then complicates the situation further. We in the west do not like war and traditionally have not opted for it. It always boggles my mind that other nations think we want to overtake them -- though, again, the history of the world accounts for this fear. Most nations have been taken over and had moving boundaries so often in history that they are naturally wary. Our history as a nation certainly backs us up that we, as a people, are not interested in expanding our borders across continents. A most pertinent point is that the majority of the people in the West do not really understand the very real threat we are facing from arabic islamic terrorists. Freedom is not free. In order to stay free, we sometimes have to fight, or we will lose our freedom. I strongly believe that, if not for the Iraq war, we would have had numerous acts of terrorism since 2001. Such acts have increased many times over throughout the world and we have managed to escape a few attempts as it is. Isolationism or involvement in the bigger world has always been controversial. If we believe that the world is getting smaller and that isolationism is not productive, then our involvement in the Middle East is not a simple question.

Answer 4

If we made a mistake, we have to correct it. We cannot leave the Iraqi people to deal with the problems. We cannot leave the people alone at the time they need us the most.

Sending more troops is the only way to deal with the problem at this time. We have to show the world that terrorism can never prevail.

Answer 5

A typical Bush war-mongering move. It's stupid, ill-advised even by some of his military people, and will just result in more American targets for the Iraqi terrorists to shoot at. Anyone who sides with Bush on this - such as John McCain - can kiss their Presidential aspirations good bye.

Answer 6

So pointless it hurts when I think about it. 200,000 troops wouldn't help, let alone 20,000 troops. There is an unlimited supply of angry insurgents enlisting every day, and this troop increase does NOTHING.

Answer 7

About time, should have sent many many many more over in the first place and just stomped the entire Middle East. Too bad we have these wuss Democrat and liberals in the govt. that keep crying about how terrorists should be saved, and treated like kings.

Answer 8

The definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing and expecting different results.

Everything W (ar) has touched hes run into bankruptcy and ruination.
He's RAPIDLY taking us there.
He;s run up such a massive debt borrowing money for this illegal attack on Iraq that you will NEVER live long enough to see it paid in YOUR LIFETIME !!!
Sincerely,


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Answer 9

Sure hope he sends enough this time to really get the job done so they can all come home soon.

Answer 10

Most are already sent.