How do you "finish the job" in Iraq?

Question

I keep hearing people talk about it... but I want to know how Bush and the military plan to stop a religious civil war from happening between THOUSANDS of people in Iraq? (didn't even the DOD say some areas of Iraq were in civil war just like a week ago? Does the DOD not know what they are talking about?)

I mean Saddam did it by basic genocide... do you advocate genocide for peace? that seems to be the only thing that's worked so far in the region?

I've never heard any sort of plan to deal with this?

Baghdad has stabilzed some with more troops, but the rest of the Sunni triangle is still out of control... do you need even more troops? It seems where ever we focus... it calms down there, flares up somewhere else...

and even if we sent in tons of troops and locked the region down (which would probably take several extra 100 million more dollars and a few more years and more troops at least)... what's to stop it from flaring back up after we leave?

Answer 1

I don't think anyone has the answer at this point. maybe the Iraq's will keep fighting and killing no mater what anyone does.
But i do know this,,,i will hang my head in shame if we run away from another war like the last one. [veteran]

Answer 2

We can blow away entire nations, without Nuclear weapons, we have MOABs. 22,000lb conventional smart bombs with nuke blast power but NO radiation.

M…..Mother
O…..of
A…..all
B…..bombs

WE have Tomahawks with fuel-air explosive war heads. The big Tomahawks can carry 10 war heads. They can burn entire cities with fuel-air explosive.

First the MOAB, when the shock wave clears, in comes the Tomahawk. The entire city is flattened and then burned with fuel-air explosive. The fuel-air explosive burns everything left and it burns off all the oxygen. There is no way to survive!

With our satellites we can target every Arab city in any terrorist nation, and then lock them all into a firing solution. Then at 3am any morning the order was given, every Arab city targeted could be blown clean off the face of the Earth, all at the same time.

We could land our troops 30 minutes later and own the entire nation. There wouldn’t even be anyone left to shoot at our soldiers. The only thing that would be left are giant smoking holes in the sand. Maybe then the other nations would say “ What ever you do don’t piss off the Americans! They can blow away our whole nation with the push of a button, just like they did to those stupid Arabs!” Maybe being “ Dust in the Wind” would stop all stupid BS America bashing. At least to our face, what they to themselves behind our backs doesn’t matter.

Our troops could surround any given city and keep the civilians from escaping. Those that wish to surrender just walk out and surrender to our troops.

The terrorists can't surrender. They all can just wait for the blinding flash and searing heat to be dust in the wind!

Answer 3

Agree with Yupchagee, the country needs to be divided.

Iraq was a mistake, not because it was wrong but because it did not succeed. But pulling out without a solution guarantees the ethnic violence will flare up. To leave Iraq, knowing what will happen next is far worse than anything that has already happened, is irresponsible and callous.

We need a new strategy. We need to pursue it aggressively. THEN we need to leave.

Answer 4

We need to do the following

1. Close off the borders to Iran and Syria

2. Allow our troops to fire back when fired upon

3. Throw out the media. If they will not report the good, along with the bad and in proportion, they report nothing. Freedom of Press needs to be limited here.

Answer 5

We had no plan going in & looks like we have no plan pulling out! We cannot "finish" the job in Iraq. It is up to the Iraqi people to finish the job. It is now a Civil Religious War & we have no place in it. We must get out & after they have settled it to their satisfaction, perhaps we can help them rebuild what we have helped destroy; at their invitation. No more American/British lives should be given for nothing.

Answer 6

I guess we have to become the Ottoman Empire and just stay for the next 500 years. Maybe THAT will teach those ungrateful, murderous, Iraqis a lesson. I am so flummixed and appalled at those who honestly believe we have some kind of achieveable and lasting goals in front of us. My guess is they are not the ones doing the fighting.

Answer 7

My gut feeling is nuke em back to the stone age! ( not that far!) But that would bring on world war III. And to quote somebody smarter than the rest of us;

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Albert Einstein

Answer 8

Heres the way I would do it. I would pull all our troops out and either carpet bomb the entire region or just drop a few nukes. There, problem solved. After that, you think some lowlife terrorist would want to mess with us?

Answer 9

I think (& always have) the the only possible solution is to split Iraq into 3 countries & help them build strong fortifications. Iraq never has been & never will be 1 stable democratic country.

Answer 10

Bringing our Troops back to work for America and not for foreign interests.