If you don't like Bush's Iraq plan, what is yours?

Question

I have seen a lot of criticism over Bush's plan to send additional troops and make new plans for Iraq. If everything Bush does is wrong, I want to hear the critics ideas for Iraq. I don't want to see, "withdraw, blow it up ect" I want legit answers on how to deal with the insurgents and secure the country. If we just pack our bags and leave, then all the deaths would truely be for nothing at all.

Answer 1

Set up a timetable for withdrawl. Set up a regional policy and begin discussions about a future 3-part state with Iran, Syria, and other Middle East nations. Let the Iraqis find their common ground and solve this them selves - with the assistance of nieghboring countries - and set up a schedule for war reparations to Iraq.

Answer 2

Everyone seems to be missing the point eh? You have to know what his first plan really was before you understand. George Bush believed that Iraq was an imminent threat to the security of the United States. There are good reasons for that eg... Iraq screws things up; oil prices skyrocket; no one can afford it; 1/5th of the world goes unemployed; roits start; end of world. This is a VERY REAL threat. Much more dangerous than WMD's, but you can't get Joe couch potato to understand these things. The entire world was worried about this, they just didn't agree on how to deal with it. They all wanted something to happen though.
The aftermath is that the world IS more secure now. Oil prices will be better controlled and the threat of global recession is reduced.
Will Bush's plan in Iraq work? It already worked. Any businessman can see it was a great success, now it's a matter of making people feel better about getting thiers. It's very dissappointing that the Americans can't understand that you can't have your cake and eat it too. Sending more troops will make people feel better and better secure insurgents trying to destroy oil wells. There is no better plan there. America can't make them stop killing eachother. Iraq has been like that for centuries and will continue to be. America needs troops there to keep it's interests secure not to play housemaker.
Best solution to Iraq is to change the channel. Stop focusing on it. Go back to other places where you can't solve things like Isreal, North Korea, Sudan. America got what it needed, end of story. People are always going to kill eachother, it's not your problem.

Answer 3

That's the million dollar question. What do we do with this bloody, seemingly endless war. Bush has really put us in a terrible situation - a corrupt government (I mean, really, did he really think these rug merchants were going to be country club Republicans?), an enemy that thinks nothing of killing anyone and everyone, long, double and triple tours of duty for troops, a (in Perot's words) a 'great sucking sound' of billions of dollars going down the drain.

OK, here's the dilemma. We stay, more American troops, more Iraqis, more money is going down. If we pull out, our credibility is shot. You may say it's shot already, but we still can manage a big FEAR status and that serves us well. We book, we lose the FEAR factor and become seen as weak.

Damn Bush for this war. Afghanistan was the target. Now rumblings of Iranian conflict seem on the horizon. Those bastards will be a whole lot tougher than the Iraqis.

So colonel, I got no answers, just a passel of worries.

Answer 4

1. Fact; the Iraqis do not have allegiance to our US military, nor do they have allegiance to the new Iraqi Central government. Their allegiances are to their sectarian associations.
Without allegiance to our military, it makes it hard to build a trust when our military is trying to work side by side with the newly trained security forces. Sending more troops without changing the "Course" will only escalate the violence and putting more American soldiers in the middle of the crossfire.
Solution: Put the onus on the Iraqi people, by accelerating training. Our role of ferreting out the insurgency forces should be gradually scaled back and this role turned over to the Iraqi forces.
Sadly however, our presence must be maintained in Iraq. Our focus should be on securing the borders and backing up Iraqi forces.
This administration has been wrong on both pushing for the war in Iraq and and their stategic plans to deal with the insurgencey. At every temporal point, this administration has forgone viable suggestions in how changing the "Course" might be prudent.
So to all you neo-cons who are willing to follow this guy with blind faith, well that is your choice. (philosophically though, it could be said that that choice is not yours, as blind faith inherently lacks skeptical thinking and scrutiny).
So when you neocons become offended when someone you might label as a liberal because they are skeptical and scrutinizing, make your argument on substance, not the quick sound bites of dogma that is a patent of the far right.
Remember this; it is a fool that does the same thing over and over and expects a different outcome.
Good luck, and let us bring our men and women home safely.

Answer 5

Absolutely. It wasn't long ago, that the most important thing to us was the stock market, taxes, unemployment, basically the economy. Now, we know that these things have been addressed and the same statistics that has been used for years, shows that the stock market is doing great, unemployment is down, oil is down, we now get tax credits for children, hourly wages are up, but the war makes Bush a criminal to many and over shadows everything good that has taken place in America. Its always been easier to criticize what others do, when you don't have to come up with something better.

Answer 6

Here is a question....imagine another country, lets say Cuba, the communist country, come here to the united states and try to change our way of life. Do you think this would work? Probably not, we would fight like hell to keep them out of here. Civilians who owned guns would be on the streets along side the soldiers. Don't you agree? So how is it our place to continue to try to make Iraq have a democracy when for years, it was dictatorship. Sometimes even when something is "wrong" people who have lived it for centuries are resistant to change, even if it means a positive in the long run. I say it is time we start focusing on the rest of what is wrong with our country before going to other countries and trying to "fix" them. We have our own problems here....maybe not as bad as what is going on in other places, but shouldn't we help our own before pushing ideas and force on others?

Answer 7

I mean I have no answer what to do right now. So I support Bush's plan. I agree with people saying we should of withdrew the military after we got there leader. An just kept our influence diplomatic, and maybe some military. Just to train police, and air force to provide air cover.

Answer 8

There isnt any sparkling thank you to assert the thank you to get out of Iraq, the actuality of the situation is we are there now and we ought to work out this by using to the tip, additionally to assert that it is like all previous conflict or conflict u . s . of america has been in and an entire waste of breath and time. It isnt!. it particularly is not ww2, it particularly is not vietnam and since the terrific u . s . in the international u . s . of america we won't be able to easily end like a team of wimps. Its so basic as this. we gained't velocity up the conflict. We cant pull out. So we tip the opportunities in out choose. To deliver greater troops is a waste of time and to tug out is excepting failure. although, education there forces is arguably and greater helpful option, yet nonetheless a failed attempt for a failing attempt. The key-word for victory is "effect". the terrific leaders in the international knew the thank you to apply it and besides the actuality that its over our heads its an identical tactic we ought to continuously be applying now. think of im incorrect? evaluate it. you do no longer rigidity somebody to do something becuse you elect them too. you need to cause them to perception it. So the question isnt the thank you to win, Its the thank you to effect. finally, besides the actuality that arguably and properly theory direct attitude on bush section. Its nonetheless no longer a step interior the splendid path. we ought to coach the mid-east no longer against the mid-east yet use the mid-east agression against us to create a solid society. We cant circulate away Iraq, The govornment of IRAQ has to kick us out.

Answer 9

What's wrong with "withdraw." Why do WE have to deal with the insurgents. Let the Iraqis determine their own fate. They don't have to be trained - they know how to shoot each other.

For now, we can tell them to get their act together or we will leave by (set a date). Our being there is making it easier for them to keep fighting because they know we won't let it get out of hand. So there is no reason to stop.
For now, we can tell them to get their act together or we will leave by (set a date).

People forget that the US had its own bloody civil war. Nobody stepped in to settle it for us. It was horrible and the aftermath took a long time to settle down but we came out of it as a more united and stronger nation.

Answer 10

the only plan i have for US is to go find Osama and make your soldiers proud to fight for US flag
Iraq problem can be solved by UN blue helmet soldiers
most of these volunteers nations will come from the Muslim
world like Indonesia or Malaysia and they will make things fair