Do the majority of extremist conservatives support GWB in Iraq to save face for their party?

Question

It seems that they have no heart and will risk additional American lives in our war with Iraq just to show that they have a plan and to save face on their failures in Iraq. I agree that its good to have plans but plans that work.

Answer 1

The mistakes Bush has made have been having "rummy" as Defense Secretary for the first 6 years of his turn in office, and then giving the green light for an occupation of Iraq with not enough troops.

The invasion was brilliant (ala German WW2 Blitz) fast moving, hard hitting, small forces, going straight for the heart of the enemy, which achieved the result of defeating the Iraq military very fast. BUT on the following chapter AFTER the invasion on any war, and also in this one, the OCCUPATION, the forces have never been large enough to correctly control all security of Iraq while giving sufficient time for the new country to construct a new military, police and security forces to take over the duties of law and order, and THAT has been the problem all along in Iraq!

Now, philosophically, the course in foreign policies this President is taking is correct: -on the offensive against terrorists, -and doing whatever it takes to win the mess in Iraq...simply because we have to!
Bush inhered a world from the 90's where all these battles we are in right now were been brewed or were already going on, just under the "radar" of the general public by the Clinton administration, for example:-Osama and his extremist pals where in full swing attacking us, beginning with their attack against us in 1993 (first WTC bombing), later the embassies bombing massacres in Africa, the USS Cole bombing in Yemen, etc. we were just kept asleep here in the US, unaware of the storms coming!

-Iraq was wiggling out of the sanctions and the requirements under the 1st Gulf War cease fire, by shooting at our forces in the "NO Fly Zones", breaking the cease fire between them and us, which was in effect since the end of the first Gulf War in 91, clear acts of war against us. Remember, the first Gulf war was technically still on, just on "hold" by a cease fire accord, but there was NO Peace treaty between Iraq and us, we were technically STILL at war, and the minute Saddam started to break the requirement by interfering with the arms inspectors (which rose fears he was getting ready to make WMDs), and later kicking them out in 98, plus shooting at our pilots in the "No Fly Zones" we had the RIGHT to go in and get him. Think of it as a criminal that is on parole out in the street, with the understanding that if he breaks his parole requirements he goes right BACK to jail again, and in this case he DOES break his parole terms, well... he goes back to jail!. Same thing here!, the minute Saddam broke the cease fire terms of the 91 war in the mid 90's by shooting at our pilots and getting out of the WMD inspection regime he was due to be invaded, problem was Clinton didn't have the guts to take him out, and Bush did.

So Bush has made mistakes, one of them the implementation mistake in Iraq, (the badly done occupation) but his view of what needs to be done is right on, no administrations is perfect, and under the extreme situation we are today in the world Bush is not doing that bad, could be doing better, but not that bad, so I don't hate him, but I do criticize him hard, and I am disappointed some in him not seeing when things have gone bad right away and correcting the course.

Answer 2

I am far from being an extremist of anything but I do support President Bush and his goals for Iraq.

It has nothing to do with saving face. Saving face would have been supporting a troop pullout a year ago after the Iraqi's held their elections but before the country was stable. We had technically "accomplished our mission". We had deposed Saddam. We had assisted is setting up a democratically elected government in Iraq and we had found that there were no WMD as we had thought there were. It would have been the perfect time to leave to "save face".

We can't do that though because the job is not done.

Who are you to tell us we have no heart. We care deeply for our men and women in uniform. We know that you can't just start pulling men and women out of Iraq on a moments notice and leave the ones who are still there more exposed to enemy attacks while there is still so much instability. How do you ask the last American to leave Iraq to be willing to die because he was the unfortunate one to be in the last group to leave? How do you do that?

I have to wonder who has no heart here. What will happen to the millions of Iraqi's who can't defend themselves yet if we take the "protectors" out of there. Our soldiers are not occupiers. They are protectors and defenders of the Iraqi people right now. Where is your concern for them? Where is your heart?

I don't ask these questions because I want you to answer them. I want you to use your brain and think about those questions.

How do you choose who stays and who leaves FIRST before that country is stable?

Answer 3

First of all not all Conservatives are extremist...
No not all Conservatives support him either...
The party in my opinion is to far gone and i don't look to bush to save it the party will not die as long as one person holds on to the principals...
The hart is something that all humans have and the decider is the one who made that choice there are republicans in d.c. who appose him...
The fat lady has not sung on Iraq yet "it's not over yet" the decider has not finished yet...
It's his plane and the jury is still out on its effectiveness...

Answer 4

can not. i do no longer comprehend what the undertaking is and neither do you. as properly, have been you waiting to be ordinary you will comprehend that interior the former case THE TROOPS supported the undertaking so splitting the two became blatantly cheating. It became announcing, "I help the troops yet i do no longer want issues to pass their way."

Answer 5

I think he should have tried alittle more diplomacy...he tried alittle then he decided to go in like a texas cowboy, guns a blazin' and hell a raisin'! However, him and his aides did not think of an exit plan/strategy and that is what got us here today...simply put...poor planning.

Answer 6

No. What you just did with this question is what Psychologists call, "projection".