Are not Liberals Responsible for the Bloodshed in Iraq?

Question

Agree- My rationale to believe so is that the only reason the insurgents have not given up, is that the media daily undermines G Bush- and shows no tolerance for war. They are running the Vietnam play book- use the left and the media to break the will of the people- and we'll win by default when they pull out. A united America would make them pack their bags and leave.

Answer 1

I am not sure I would say they are directly responsible for the bloodshed. I will say they have empowered the insurgents far beyond what the insurgents could possibly have done themselves.

Ask yourselves one question. What military value did beheading Nicholas Berg on video and distributing it worldwide provide the insurgents? Instead of being outraged and pushing for stronger US action, the liberals cringed and began their protests. A marionette is not any better controlled. The brutal slash of a sword to the neck of a civilian contractor did little to change the military balance. But Berg's death was priceless to them politically.

The difference between liberals and conservatives is how they react to this type of action. The Liberals shrink back in horror and say if we leave them alone they will leave us alone. The conservatives see a more personalized view of the same threat posed by the 9/11 attacks. We don't believe running away will remove the danger. Ask the people that worked in the WTC if there is a danger here. Oh thats right, you can't. They are dead.

Answer 2

You are a fool. I'm not even going to argue the political points.

Why do you think the insurgents are ever going to give up? Because our troops are killing some of them? As has been shown time and again, these are fanatical young men who are willing to die for their cause. They are HAPPY to die if they can take one of our soldiers with them.

Unwittingly, Bush has done everything he can to assist them, by providing them with a great live fire training ground called Iraq. Al Qaeda is experiencing a recruiting boom, mostly via the internet, because of the very presence of Americans in Iraq.

They don't have to plan some elaborate mission like 9/11 requiring money and fake passports, etc. all that they have to do is go to Iraq and they can start killing Americans with rudimentary bombs.

You are just ignorant if you think that Wolf Blitzer suddenly getting behind the President 100% would change anything.

Answer 3

So what caused all of the failures prior to the media getting involved? The war raged on for years before there was crticism at home. Bush chose to leave Afghanistan and go into Iraq. Now Afghanistan is heating back up. Failed tactics and underestimating the enemy have led to the problems in Iraq. Nice try, but this is Bush's war. I hate to point out that there are conservatives that are also opposed to the war.

Answer 4

I think you are a bit deluded. The freedom fighters of Iraq are continuing to fight because they are not prepared to hand THEIR country over to a bunch of capitalist imperialists who want to exploit Iraqs resources and install a puppet government to the bidding of the US at the OPEC discussion tables. These guys are committed and couldn't give a **** about what the US press writes. They are winning their war and the US is receiving world wide criticism for their imperialist war.

Look at the IRA in Ireland. They thrived even though the press was continually against them and for the British government. The media has nothing to do with the success of the insurgent campaign. Their success lies in their own will power, and the fact that they have more right on their side than the US ever will. It is their country after all!

Answer 5

Those repsonible for the bloodshed in Iraq are the Muslim terrorists.

Not Bush not liberals.
That kind of in fighting just helps them know they are winning.
They know they can't beat our military but they know they can beat our will to take them out.
So the question remains what is more important to this country.
Stop the sound of retreat and take them on hard and fast.
Leave the debate tell after the job was done.
ie The hearings into Pearl Harbor didn't happen tell after the war.
People put aside their poltical differences and took on the bad guys.

Answer 6

What !!! Your rationale borders on being totally ridiculous. Maybe you can tell us how the US plans to extract ourselves from this mess in Iraq. The media didn't start the war and the media hasn't protracted it. After Vietnam we as a country said "never again" and yet we have forgotten that vow and have plunged into this civil war stuck between both parties. This war has produced more terrorists than it has eliminated and we will continue to see our KIA numbers escalate. As to "fighting there instead of here" goes, we will see in the years to come if that be true.

Answer 7

the reason the insurgents have not given up is we armed them below Reagan Bush and allowed them to purchase ammunition and explosives . those persons are like %. rats and saved as much as available and cooked the books like enron to get extra weapons ammo and explosives then the actual used . whilst they run out of ammunition and explosives we can see an end to the insurgents and till then docs would be removing lead from american squaddies ,synthetic perfect here in u.s. .

Answer 8

The liberals are misguided all the way around. They follow the Michael Moore's and Al Gore's of this country like sheep. The consequences of their actions are completely overlooked and/or defended by other libs, and they continue to feed off of the media as if there's some credibility there! Its funny how the only reporting of our surge into Afghanistan by leftist media is on the civilians that have been killed there so far. This is all the left media reports, so this is all the liberals hear, and then they blame GWB.

Answer 9

It appears the propagandists and brain washers have done a good job. You blame liberals for what a neocon President started and stays the course in? I have heard some far fetched arguments but this one pretty much takes the cake. Perhaps you should go on conservative hate radio and gab with Limbaugh, Hannity, Coulter and that bunch since you seem to believe every bit of their hateful clap trap. Speaking of Vietnam... As a veteran of that time I want to know where your great war hero George W. Bush was then. Oh yeah, I remember he was in Alabama and AWOL other than that he was sure a brave one in that fight, wasn't he?

Answer 10

You are being myopic and americancentric on this. Sadly, sunnis and shii'ites have taken up against one another with abandon. Our state department has estimated that the average home in Iraq has at least one AK-47. Bloodshed abounds because of the general instability in Iraq, their lack of a seasoned government, with the respect of and by the people. It is pure nonsense to believe "liberals" are responsible for the strife in Iraq.