After the new majority weakens our military to the point of losing the war on terror, which will you be .....?

Question

American Sunni or American Shia?

Blakenwit... - I'm not a "neo" anything, but thanks for playing.

michaelsa... - Thank you, I was just feeling bored and more than a little upset after listening to the Democrats' warped sense of reality during the debates today. I don't really think anyone has to worry about this. When the sh*t comes down, even Democrats know how to start a war.

Answer 1

WE WILL NEVER lose the war on terror. And I am and always will be a PROUD, PATRIOTIC, RED BLOODED AMERICAN FIGHTING MAN! GOD BLESS AMERICA!

Answer 2

So approximately 50,000 Iraqi insurgents, with no tanks, planes, or advanced weapons, backed by a Iranian third rate army, are going to overthrow a country of 300 million people, 2000 multimegaton nuclear weapons, 2 million troops, and 100 million firearms, with a few suicide bombers and some katyusha rockets, and maybe one or two half assed 10 kiloton nukes? Riiiight.
I think people need to look up the definition of "existential threat". Soviets: existenial threat. Islamic Extremists: Not an existential threat.

Answer 3

American Kurd

Answer 4

That's really a good question....one that the liberals won't understand. Lately, they don't seem to understand anything.

Imagine, debating a non-binding support resolution for the terrorists while our troops are in harms way - I'm ashamed of these retarded clowns.
Truly ashamed.

Answer 5

HAHA! That's good.

I would say American Sunni.

But anyway, I hope we Americans finally open our eyes and realize that the war is not about IRAQ, it is about IRAN. If we pull out, these guys are going to be even stronger, and they are going to take over the whole middle east, and eventually bring them closer to their "doomsday". I hope we stop them before it ever comes to that.

Answer 6

This question had some potential. You should be working the GOOD angle to the liberals being in charge. They will never allow a republican to succeed over there. We need a liberal president so we can get the left on board the war on terror. Republicans don't care who's in charge, as long as we win. Vote democrat in '08.

Answer 7

Hopefully the new majority will get us back on track going after the actual terrorists.

Answer 8

The U.S. military drive to train and equip Iraq's security forces has unwittingly strengthened anti-American Shiite Muslim cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militia, which has been battling to take over much of the capital city as American forces are trying to secure it. U.S. Army commanders and enlisted men who are patrolling east Baghdad, which is home to more than half the city's population and the front line of al-Sadr's campaign to drive rival Sunni Muslims from their homes and neighborhoods, said al-Sadr's militias had heavily infiltrated the Iraqi police and army units that they've trained and armed.

"Half of them are JAM. They'll wave at us during the day and shoot at us during the night," said 1st Lt. Dan Quinn, a platoon leader in the Army's 1st Infantry Division, using the initials of the militia's Arabic name, Jaish al Mahdi. "People (in America) think it's bad, but that we control the city. That's not the way it is. They control it, and they let us drive around. It's hostile territory."

The Bush administration's plan to secure Baghdad rests on a "surge" of some 17,000 more U.S. troops to the city, many of whom will operate from small bases throughout Baghdad. Those soldiers will work to improve Iraqi security units so that American forces can hand over control of the area and withdraw to the outskirts of the city. The problem, many soldiers said, is that the approach has been tried before and resulted only in strengthening al-Sadr and his militia.

Amid recurring reports that al-Sadr is telling his militia leaders to stash their arms and, in some cases, leave their neighborhoods during the American push, U.S. soldiers worry that the latest plan could end up handing over those areas to units that are close to al-Sadr's militant Shiite group. "All the Shiites have to do is tell everyone to lay low, wait for the Americans to leave, then when they leave you have a target list and within a day they'll kill every Sunni leader in the country. It'll be called the `Day of Death' or something like that," said 1st Lt. Alain Etienne, 34, of Brooklyn, N.Y. "They say, `Wait, and we will be victorious.' That's what they preach. And it will be their victory." Quinn agreed. "Honestly, within six months of us leaving, the way Iranian clerics run the country behind the scenes, it'll be the same way here with Sadr," said Quinn, 25, of Cleveland. "He already runs our side of the river."

[...] Al-Sadr's success in infiltrating Iraqi security forces says much about the continued inability of American commanders in Iraq to counter the classic insurgent tactic of using popular support to trump superior military firepower. Lacking attack helicopters and other sophisticated weapons, al-Sadr's men have expanded their empire with borrowed trucks and free lunches for militiamen.

After U.S. units pounded al-Sadr's men in August 2004, the cleric apparently decided that instead of facing American tanks, he'd use the Americans' plans to build Iraqi security forces to rebuild his own militia.

So while Iraq's other main Shiite militia, the Badr Brigade, concentrated in 2005 on packing Iraqi intelligence bureaus with high-level officers who could coordinate sectarian assassinations, al-Sadr went after the rank and file. His recruits began flooding into the Iraqi army and police, receiving training, uniforms and equipment either directly from the U.S. military or from the American-backed Iraqi Defense Ministry.Here is perhaps the most persuasive argument I've seen that a surge in fact plays into the hands of our enemies. We have already lost Iraq to a civil war and the region is spinning out of control. The only hope of turning the tide is direct negotiation with Iran and Syria and bringing all of Iraq's neighbors to the table to prevent regional war. The only country that benefits by a Shia-Sunni war is Israel. Already Israel is building behind the scenes network of support for Sunni efforts to confront the Iranians.

Answer 9

you are basing your question on the assumption that 9-11 was real . it was not . bush had his own reichstag fire to fool the public . war on terror is bs propaganda . follow the money. who profits ? cuz its really about avarice and greed . if you can't see this you must be one of those war profiteers .killing is one of Gods top 10 no-nos. look it up . its in the bible AND koran .

Answer 10

Our army is so bogged down in Iraq it would be tuff for it to get weaker. Well I don't know, If Bush sends us into Iran?