If Bush were a Democrat?

Question

Would you support the troop build up in Iraq?

Answer 1

Yes I would support the troop buildup. But, I still would not support Bush. People seem to forget, Bush is a man, not a political party unto himself. You can be a conservative and not care for Bush, regardless of what party members say.
I have never agreed with his politics.

Answer 2

No I

If sending in the troops doesn’t work, just send in more. If throwing money down a hole doesn’t work, toss some more down there. If having faith in the Iraqi government gets you nowhere, why, then, trust ‘em with more.

Bush isn’t just staying the course, boys and girls, he’s staying it with a vengeance. His promise to consult with members of both parties? Total bullshit, unless, by consult, you mean bringing a few in the day of the speech and telling ‘em what you’re going to say.

And already the Whatever Bush Says boys are out there with the same old ‘you’re either with us or you’re against us” mantra. Bush says, This is How We’ll Win. Anybody who disagrees wants to lose.

But what’s this … the strict party lines are a little, shall we say, ragged. At least six Republican senators, for example, have already voiced their opposition to the idea of boosting troop levels in Iraq. Does that mean that Gordon Smith, Susan Collins, Norm Coleman, George Voinovich, Chuck Hagel and Sam Brownback all want the United States to lose in Iraq? Or do they just have a different idea of what “winning” might actually mean?

And when Bush’s new plan, which he tells us is an Iraqi plan, when it fails … who’s going to take the blame then? Will the administration blame the Iraqis? It was “their” plan, after all. Or maybe it’ll be the nay-sayers fault. They didn’t all come together to back the president, you know. Or maybe it’s the darn media’s fault for not showing the war in a more positive light.

It won’t be the administration’s fault, of that we can be quite certain. The administration, you know, recognized its mistakes and made the necessary changes to win.

That might sound good on paper, but it’s just not true. Bush isn’t making any changes. He’s just tryin’ to put out a fire with gasoline

Answer 3

I'm a democrat and there is absolutely no way that I would support the troop build up.
Too bad that common sense has taken a back seat to politics.

Answer 4

I do support it, actually, and I hate Bush. I think it's better that the Americans and British have a role in policing Iraq, rather than only the Iraqi police, as some units have been infiltrated by insurgents. The British actually had to storm a police station in Basra because they found the police had been operating mobile death units and had been torturing civillians on the basis of their ethnicity.

We made this mess, and we're not leaving until it's cleared up.

Answer 5

No, party makes no difference. If a Democrat did exactly the same thing in exactly the same way I would feel exactly the same way. No I would not support a troop build up.

Answer 6

No more than the anti-war movement supported LBJ's troop build up in Vietnam.

Answer 7

Yes. He could be from Mars and it wouldn't matter. Our troops on the ground in Iraq said they needed more troops to get the job done, so I support their decision. They are after all in the best position to know what needs to be done.

Answer 8

No because they will have civil war whenever we leave and they need to hash it out themselves, whether we leave tomorrow or next year or in ten years.

The longer we stay, the longer our guys will be murdered in cold blood. They dont want freedom, the ones who did are either dead or have left Iraq.

Answer 9

i support the build up to secure areas no matter what party, but if bush were a democrat i wouldn't defend him like the republicans do (im a demo)

Answer 10

no, No, and NO!
"There is no better way to support those who are fighting in Iraq than to guarantee that no more of them die in the service of political miscalculation"
Source(s):
Anna Quindlen, Newsweek 2/19/07