looking back, do you think we made the correct decisions with Iraq?
2007-02-23 04:04:18 · 8 answers · asked by pip 7 in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Looking back? Hell, the same vision was available when the war started. the difference is that the right wing were attacking those who demanded proof.
2007-02-23 04:09:52 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 2⤋
Thank you for your question.
War is not a "prescribed" activity. You can predict, plan and execute but things rarely go as planned.
Some aspects of the Iraqi war were handled brilliantly. Some have been messed up. But mistakes in planning and execution do not necessarily mean the original objectives were or are wrong.
Having said all that, I think that one of our goals is to free the Iraqi people from a dictators grip. We did that. Another was to help the Iraqi people elect their own government and get it in place where it has a chance to succeed. We did that.
Though the cost has been high, I think that anyone would have to admit success on those two steps.
Lastly, I think that we need to help the Iraqi people to keep their freely elected government in place and capable of ensuring peace within and defend itself from threats without so that the Iraqi people have a chance to live freely, enjoy the benefits of their labor and provide for their secure future. This we have not yet achieved, though I think and hope that that point is not too far away.
While the popular media has focused the attention of America on the sacrifices of both American Soldiers and the loss of life of the Iraqi people, there is another story that is grander than the one presented. We have been successful in so many endeavors in Iraq and in reaching so many objectives. Thousands of success stories exist within Iraq, literally thousands.
While the sacrifice of our military and the Iraqi people are difficult to watch on popular media, I could never dishonor their sacrifice by supporting the withdrawal of our military prior to the conclusion of perhaps the most important phase of our involvement there.
If you were to have portrayed the activities of WWII on a daily basis, logged and reported the deaths and wounded and presented only that to the American people, I think that you would have had a similar lowering of public support for that war and we could have been forced to withdraw before achieving our ultimate goals.
Fortunately, the prosecution of any war is not the job of "public opinion" nor is it within the proper realm of power for the congress. That job lies squarely with the president. Do I agree with everything he has done. Absolutely not. Do I support him in working toward the ultimate success and victory. Absolutely Yes!!
2007-02-23 04:28:10 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Neither looking back nor looking forward.
Months before Bush & Co. -- and that includes the boondoggled Congress who approved -- drove us into this "war," analysts accurately predicted our becoming entangled in a civil war.
But, putting that aside, I can think of three distinct FAILURES that could have/should have/must have been avoided in the days immediately before and following that stupid "Mission Accomplished" propaganda from our Idiot King:
1.) Rummy dismisses General Shinseki, because Shinseki accurately estimated that we would need "several hundred thousand soldiers on the ground."
2.) Rummy dismissed Saddam's militia -- the sole security infrastructure remaining in Iraq, and one in which the members were looking for work. So, no jobs, deep training, some of them starting working for the insurgency;
3.) Our soldiers were so ill-equipped during the first years that they had to cannibalize parts to add protective armor to their vehicles.
2007-02-23 04:23:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
Correct decision or not we should have had an offical declaration of war before we went into Iraq. That way those who voted for it can't now say they were mis-led or fooled.
2007-02-23 04:16:56 · answer #4 · answered by Robert and Tanya 2 · 2⤊ 1⤋
We can never know for sure, since we don't have a crystal ball to tell us what would have happened had we NOT gone in.
Not to trivialize it, but it's like the old "Let's Make a Deal" show. If you pick door #1 and not door # 2, and someone asks you if you chose wisely, don't you have to know what was behind door # 2 as well in order to answer?
2007-02-23 04:08:29 · answer #5 · answered by American citizen and taxpayer 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
definite, Nikki made a colossal mistake in leaving Victor in the 1st place to be with David Chow, even she admits that now. on the time whilst she left him nonetheless, Victor replaced into being no longer something yet an A$$ to her and that i will no longer be able to blame her for leaving him, if he had taken care of me like the way he replaced into treating Nikki then, i might have left too. the two Nikki & Victor made their share of errors in this, no longer in simple terms Nikki!
2016-10-16 08:03:47 · answer #6 · answered by juart 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, we should have sent in more troops and sealed the borders much quicker.
2007-02-23 04:08:38 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
No. I never thought it was necessary.
2007-02-23 04:08:48 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋