How many more TROOPS need to die for FAILED Republican WARs?

Question

according to them

as many as it takes

Answer 1

if wouldn't have fail if the Democrats would let them Finnish it!!!

Answer 2

You can't judge a war's length on how many troops die. That's a complete lack of respect for the value of their lives. Troops are not a simple currency to be spent when winning a war. Your question should have been something more along the lines of "What do we need to do to get out of Iraq?"

The solution to that is staying in Iraq long enough to set up a stable government that can handle the insurgent problem on its own. The government would have to be non-religion affiliated so as to prevent conflicts between the different Muslim groups.

I hold liberal views and yet I support the troops, and I don't believe that immediately pulling out of Iraq will be beneficial to either Iraq or the US. We can't simply leave the nation in a worse state that it was when we entered.

Answer 3

Who says we failed this war?

During WWII, we lost hundreds of thousands of troops. Many of them died after the war had ended, as Nazi and Japanese soldiers who refused to stop fighting became snipers. But we celebrate the good done by ending the evil that had taken over Germany, Japan and Italy; as well we should. It is sad that it had to get to that point, where so many had to die. If we hadn't fought, though, we would've given up our freedom.

Appeasement isn't worth that. And if Hitler were around today instead of then, doing what he did in today's age--taking over the whole of Europe by violent force and tossing Jews, gays and Gypsies in concentration camps--I'm scared to death of what the outcome would be, because the instant anyone died we'd all wail and moan that it was a "failure."

And who the hell said this was a Republican war? From what I remember, most of Congress agreed that Saddam needed to go.

Answer 4

First this is more a retorical question which can not be answered but can be philosofied through opion.

I would state that The war can not be classified as a republican/democrat war, because inatially it was the consensus of the US as a whole to enter into Iraq and deseat the Dictator Suddam Hussain. However this was done under the pretense that 1. He had weapons of mass destruction and was producing them against UN anti-long range weapons resolution, and 2. He was supplying and harboring terriorist and fell under the War on terrorism resolution drafted by the UN. Note the US did invade Iraq without UN approval under the basis of a preemptive strike to prove that Suddam did have weapon of mass destrution. The intial goals of the US was to deseat Suddam's regiem, expose his illegal weapons fasilities, and to return the country to the people and allow them to set up a democratic government. We have done most of this, but we do lack the primary justifications for the invation which are the Illegal weapons plants and the links to terrorest acts. As far as the troops, they are caught between secretarian violence(aka...Fighting between diffrent sects for political control of the country*civil war*)[side note* this was created by deposing a unpopular but stable government that tightly controlled secretrain violance so it is up to the US to quell it]. So the Us can just pull out, but there should be an attempt on the part of the Oval office and the Congress to make resolutions that will alow the US to hand over a stable country to their government, because all the grandstanding and finger pointing on both sides is not helping. A lot of lives have been lost on both sides of the line as far as this war, and more wil be but it is war. We all went in this knowning what was at risk it is pointless to want to start a war and then say it needs to stop because people die if we did it would not be a war.

As far as other comments on this page.
1. It is irresponsble to say that Republican's are the main cause for blacks being free. If you check the generalized make-up of party classes you will see that yester-years republican's are what make up todays Democrats. the party lines and class assosation tend to shift. because as the civil war ended most black tht made up the Republican party moved back to the south and as the civil rights evolved they helped make up the base for todays Democratic Party.

2. An anti-war view does not make someone a hippie. By resorting to gross name calling you only weaken any general point you make by defame your own charater.

3. I dont support anyone views on this page because each of them are to filled with partisan retoric and no real facts. even if the question itself is partisan bias.

Answer 5

HEY !! This our first extended war since the 1860's !! Panama, Grenada and the Gulf War I were successful and QUICK !!

And we've lost FAR fewer troops that the failed Democrat-party "conflicts" of Korea (never ended... just a cease-fire) and Vietnam. For that matter... we've lost fewer people in Iraq / Afghanistan than a similar demographic would die on the US Highways !!

And BRAVO to "Sane" for his response.

Take your Liberal rants elsewhere...

Answer 6

??? Why dont you put the bong down and actually read something other than the LA times. If you cant read watch something other than CNN. Question for you a war 4 years in the making how many casualties?? A country liberated dictator out of power and executed by his own?? Hmmm sound fairly successful to me. Better check yourself before you start talkin smack!!!


Its not about the oil either. Better check all the other countries that have oil contract now. All but the USA!!!

Answer 7

Apparently this generation is ready to shovel thousands of young men into Arlington without much care about why.

And frankly I don't get it. Their parents are from a generation that witnessed ~58,000 of their peers die in the jungles of Vietnam. They protested that war...tore up their draft cards...flew to Canada.

Now they meekly give over their sons to kill and be killed in an ill conceived, poorly thought out, and poorly fought war--and it isn't even a war...its another police action at the command of the executive branch of our government.

I really wonder what the heck happened to those people that were 18 in 1968?

Answer 8

Your question is misworded. It should read:

How many more troops need to die until the Democrats stop playing political games with their funding and stop with the civil rights, political correctness restrictions and let the boys do what they have to do so they can come home. When you get the question right, you'll get the right answers.

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Answer 9

and what do you think will happen if we take the troops out now!! we will be attacked that what will happen, they are not jsut gonna sit back and let us leave peacefuly they will look at it as a sign of weakness!!

Answer 10

How many more hippies are going to come to the military page to pollute it with pointless whining?

As many as it takes?

Answer 11

when the Iraq people stop fighting for their own freedom,what about the Kurds do you suggest we just leave them behind like the Hmong in Nam??