Why was the Democratic Response to the President's war plan just more of, "It's wrong" without a solution?

Question

Why don't the Democrats offer us a PLAN for IRAQ instead of just saying we are wrong?

The DEMOCRATS were calling for more troops a few months ago and now that we say we'll try it - they say NO.

WHY DO THEY ONLY WANT TO DO THE OPPOSITE of what we are doing?

Jim Webb only criticized. He offered NO solutions.

Answer 1

The democrats never had and never will have a plan for Iraq even though they voted for the war. Now that the war in Iraq isn't going as well as planned, all the dems know how to do is go against the president and undermine the war effort.

Answer 2

Bush & Co haven't given us a solution in 4 years and hours and hours and speeches but Webb should in 8 minutes????? You can read about the Democrats plans all over the place but Bush is making the long speeches. Don't you think the president should have had a plan BEFORE Iraq?

And, "The DEMOCRATS were calling for more troops a few months ago and now that we say we'll try it - they say NO"-
What Democrats wanted to escalate the war??? What you have heard is that IF it was a good idea to go into Iraq, they didn't go in with enough soldiers at the beginning. After the intial, shock and awe, we needed many more troops to stabilize, prevent looting, etc. By not putting enough troops in at the beginning, we gave the terrorists time to get organized and get their agenda ramped up-and now it's too late-unless we put in 500,000-that MIGHT do it. We have the best military, the best intelligence-so why did it go so wrong? History teaches us it's generally the politicians playing soldier...
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Answer 3

We left wingers think before making a statement and do not limit ourselves to 25 words cos we don't miss the mental capacity to think of more like some conservatives.We take problems serious and therefor don't believe in easy solutions.Even your big friend President Bush can tell you that the war on terror can not be resolved with an easy solution.So the 25 word limit makes it impossible to answer your question and I'm sure even every intelligent conservative will agree.

Answer 4

They have offered alternative suggestions, many of them. Obama offers the solution of actually tasking Iraq with dealing with their own problems instead of just jawing about it and bringing the troops home pretty quickly - his timetable seems too short to me on that one. Hillary Clinton and other Democrats have offered very clear alternative solutions that are being ignored and dismissed out of hand, without due consideration. The basic idea is for Bush to stop ignoring the benefits of diplomacy and welcome all relevant countries to the table for talks. The benefits of diplomacy seem to evade this President. That is part of the problem with Bush, his arrogance doesn't allow for anything but dictating instead of listening and exchanging ideas. Also, it has been stated over and over by Democrats that we need to actually put a timetable on the Iraqis for getting it together, a timetable that has teeth and consequences for not doing what is asked instead of demands that have no teeth at all and get rejected out of hand by Maliki. She has also suggested that we need to leave the policing of Baghdad to the Iraqis and concentrate on the Al Queda terrorists in Anbar, and the increasing number of Taliban camps springing back up in Afghanistan. It has been suggested more than once that the 25,000 troops being sent to Iraq would better serve our purposes actually fighting the terrorists instead of, again, being policeman for their civil war. They are making suggestions, just as the Study Group did, and just as some Republicans are now trying to do. Because Bush chooses not to listen doesn't mean others aren't offering alternatives, they are.

Answer 5

because it is wrong. the dems know it and GWB's speech swayed more reps over to realize that too. there are a myriad of alternatives that should be considered and evaluated so offering up a single solution when the collective minds of congress and the president's resources could produce a better approach is pointless. If someone says the best way to cure a hangnail is severing it at the neck the first reaction should be no! stop!

Answer 6

Very good observation. The Dems did not offer any kind of plan, and I was really disappointed. BooHoo. I expected nothing more than exactly what their response was. Bush however, did offer up some plans for domestic issues, issues that the Dems did not take up during their first hundred hours. Health care, petroleum dependency etc. BooHoo for the Dems again. If they spent as much time taking useful action during their first hundred hours, and less time on Bush bashing, and criticizing our military, then I might have considered voting Dem in 08, but I doubt it now.

Answer 7

Democrats are liars, check this out:

The Ghost of Tokyo Rose
Vanity | 1/24/07 | Wil H

Anyone who remembers anything about World War II, or has studied anything about World War II, will understand and remember that during World War II, the Japanese developed a way to demoralize the American forces. The Japanese psychological warfare experts developed a message they felt would work.

They gave their psychological warfare script to their famous broadcaster "Tokyo Rose" and every day she would broadcast this same message packaged in different ways, hoping it would have a negative impact on American an GI's morale.

What was that demoralizing message?

It had three main points:


1. Your President is lying to you.

2. This war is illegal.

3. You cannot win the war.


Does this sound familiar?


Is it because

Tokyo Hillary, Tokyo Harry, Tokyo Teddy, Tokyo Nancy, Tokyo Durbin, Tokyo Kerry, TOKYO MURTHA, etc. have all learned from the former enemies of our country and have picked up the same message and are broadcasting it on:

Tokyo CNN, Tokyo ABC, Tokyo CBS, Tokyo NBC, etc. to our troops?


The only difference is that they claim to support our troops before they try to demoralize them.


Come to think of it... Tokyo Rose told the American troops she was on their side, also.

Answer 8

Because dear heart, Bush is a Republican therefore to Democrats he must be wrong-- No matter what he does.

I was surprised at the Democrat rebuttal after the speech. The one point that sticks in my mind was how the junior senator was quick to point out that in the past the average CEO made twenty times what hourly workers made (I forget how far back). And now they made on average 400 times what the workers make.

Since that is obviously a major problem the Democrats want to solve. How do they propose to do it? Will they raise the minimum wage by a factor of 20? Or will they put a cap on CEO salaries to force them to work for 20 times less than they do now?

The junior senator didn't give us a clue on what they Democrats plan to do.

Answer 9

It is not the Democrats job to come up with a solution. Bush’s war is clearly not working and until recently, him and Rums were in denial about how things were going in Iraq. Somebody has to hold them accountable for thier ridiculousness and not let them get away with sending MORE and MORE troops over there to fight something we are not able to win for a reason nobody is clear on

Answer 10

That's Strange In California (the most military state) the Democratic response was clear and concise.

These Liberal FOX guys must broadcast different speeches in each target market.

In the Double wide market Bush was dressed like Earl and gave his speech from a dirty couch with his bare feet on a coon hound.

Go big Red Go

Answer 11

It's funny how both parties accuse the other party of being brainwashed by liberal/conservative media.

Hunny, not all republicans agree on Iraq. Not all democrats agree on Iraq.

In fact, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL SUGGESTIONS FOR IRAQ INCLUDING LEAVING, AND SOME DEMOCRATS SUPPORT SENDING MORE TROOPS THERE.

I hope you read the capitalized part, because I figure you won't read the rest of this.

the DEMOCRATS do have solutions. you just haven't looked into it. You just think hmm I've been listening to rush limbaugh all day and he says the dems don't have a solution so they must not! oh yay i'm such an educated person

okay yeah i'm being a little mean here but these questions just piss the **** out of me.

let's be nice to everyone.
i don't care whether a dem posted something about a republican or a republican posted something about a dem

it's just ignorance.
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