For those that don't think the democrat's strategy is, "cut and run", do you understand?

Question

what "cut and run" means?

It means, "cut" our loses (human and financial) and leave the battlefield ("run" away).

Can anyone explain to me how the democrat's strategy is NOT 'cut and run'?

Answer 1

Harry Reid calls the war "lost" . . . Nancy Pelosi takes it upon herself to conduct her own private foreign policy in the middle east.

Either they have no clue as to 1) the harm they are doing by putting their own political agendas ahead of the best interests of our nation, and 2) the danger their behavior poses to our troops as well as our citizens here at home by encouraging our enemies on the ground in the middle east and their terrorist masters around the world, OR they have stepped beyond the boundary of childish partisanism into the realm of treason and sedition.

Democrats say that they are acting according to the "mandate" they believe that they received from the 2006 elections. They say that the American people want our troops out of Iraq, yet they (the Democrat majority) lack the political will (or perhaps the spine) to do anything decisive to accomplish that "mandate".

Democrats play political games with casualty numbers and military spending totals, decrying the tolls the war effort is taking on our young people and on our economy, yet they refuse to use their "power of the purse" to simply stop funding the war.

Democrats make a big show of blaming the president and the Republicans for our current situation in the middle east, which their media allies exacerbate by only showing the stories which portray Americans in a negative way.

Democrats would do well to remember that we have already won the war. That was accomplished when the American military seized control of Baghdad and toppled the Baathist regime.

What we are engaged in now is a peace keeping mission, which has had its share of both successes and failures. We cannot, however, undo centuries of sectarian hatred and violence in a matter of months, especially when the violence is being subsidized by religious fanatics from outside of Iraq as well as from within.

Democrats would further do well to remember what "cut and run" has accomplished in the past . . . the millions of civilians slaughtered in southeast asia as nation after nation fell to communism after American troops left Saigon. Is this the fate that the Democrats would wish upon the civilians in the middle east?

Answer 2

Because they are simply setting a deadline to start removing troops from a country we shouldn't be in in the first place.

Cut and run. Interesting that one chooses to use that term when it is the only alternative. Bush put the war into a place where that is the only option. How long would you choose to allow the troops to stay? Until everything is all wine and roses? There will never be a good time. Just like Vietnam, it is a lost cause. It is something that was that way from the start. Bush never had an exit strategy. And if he would have, you would be defending him for implementing his "exit strategy". Isn't ANY form of leaving a country "cutting and running"? I mean, it will never be stable. When someone is fighting for something they truly believe in and base their lives upon, they tend to fight to the death. Those insurgents believe we invaded their country. What else would you call it? Did we need to start a war to get Saddam? You are telling me we couldn't just send in the Rangers to take him out, using a covert operation, and in doing so achieved the same result that supposedly was the reason for the invasion in the first place? Those soldiers are fighting for something they believe in more than the Iraqi's they supposedly are liberating. If they truly desired "freedom", we wouldn't be seen as invaders, and they all would be willing to take up for their country and fight. But only a few are willing to lay it all on the line to "defend their freedom".

We lost. We got Saddam, and I thought that was the reason. There isn't only terrorists in Iraq (I am hard pressed to believe that there are truly any terrorists in Iraq. They are in other countries plotting their next attack against the US because a majority of its defense is over in Iraq fighting for what?), they are all over the world. Why are we not going into Saudi Arabia (Oil), Iran (PR), Libya (no use to invade)? Bush got his approval boost. Now it is gone. Don't try and twist a lost cause into someone else's bad idea. That ownership totally belongs to George Bush, his administration, and the Republican Party.

Good job, boys. Hope to see you again in a few years. . .

NOT!

Answer 3

In strategy, redeployment is not running away, it is an acknowledgement that current position and strategy is not working and trying something new. Is the new strategy by the president working or is a deployment that needs critical review including redeployment called for?

Is the job of any competent military commander to "cut" losses of his own troops and treasure? Political rhetoric is fine, but military reality is another.

Every competent military leader in American history knew when to redeploy troops and materials and they most certainly thought it expediant to "cut" losses in face of military reality.

A few commanders felt otherwise. Ambrose Burnside was among those and he was a Republican as well as the current commander.

Answer 4

Again Mr kno it all you show you have as much of a clue about what diplomacy is then our failing president.

What democrat has said we will cut off all ties to the region?
Theres always been talks of forces kept in the region -- BUT OUT OF HARMS IMMEDIATE WAY.

Its idiots like you who believe we should keep our soldiers as moving targets to be picked off one by one by two sides of a war we cannot stop from going after the other.

4 years and nothign has been accomplished in the region.
BECAUSE IRAQ DOES NOT WANT PEACE.
Why cant you understand that.

What we are trying to do now was what should have been done immediately after we got into IRAQ -- what our president was advised and didnt care to agree with at the time.

Now that unstability for 3 years has brought in Al Queda.
And now its a mess beyond repair BECAUSE AGAIN -- the Iraqi governement WANTS an ethnic cleansing of its own country.

I want to see your ignornt butt enlist on the front lines to back up all your support for this president.
Until then you havent earned your say.

I served my country -- what have you done!!!

You dont get it -- well some people are a lost cause and youll never get it.
Because it takes common sense and knowledge of the facts that you cant seem to grasp

Oh and cut and run is some idiotic motto republicans came up with just so they could try forgetting about 4 years of mishandling this war, and try focsing on a new surge plan -- thats been the same failed plan theyve had for 4 years.
Dummies like you fall for that propoganda -- weak minded fools

Answer 5

The Democratic strategy is a phased withdrawal based on a time line of achievements that the Iraqi government must make.
In other words, force the Iraqi government to get serious with security, financial, and democratic changes or they will be left to suffer their own fate.
3500 lives and $500,000,000,000 is enough, they need to get serious, and so do you.
"Cut & Run" is a conservative talking point, it means nothing, and signifies a small minded grasp of the problems facing Iraq.

Answer 6

cut and run would mean leave now. they're proposal gives Iraq over a year to decide whether or not they want democracy or just sit back and let come what may. If it's the latter then we could stay 100 years and in the end the results would be the same.

Answer 7

You can use whatever spin you like. It won't change the facts.
The GOP spin machine is in full tilt calling it a policy of surrender, telling us that it's surrendering to the terrorists, etc. They are trying to hit any nerve that they can to get people to support the war. Guess what? The majority of Americans STILL oppose the war. I guess all of the Rhetoric isn't working anymore. The politics of fear is a losing strategy. People see right through it.

Answer 8

Cut and run implies a cowardly slink away from the fight. I say if they all want to kill each other let them, and let's stop dying for their hatreds and focus on the terrorists, and leave the Iraqui people still looking in the mouth of their gift horse.

No more tax dollars from my paycheck to send 19 year olds to die in the middle of a pointless secular war that has nothing to do with the reason we invaded Iraq in the first place.

Answer 9

And the Republican strategy is.....??
Throw some more lies out to the American People in attempt to keep war going?
Get tens of thousands of IRaqis killed.
Get Americans killed.
Fill the pockets of DUBYAS BUDDIES with CASH.
Isn't that what it's all about?

Everything you REPUBLICANs claimed about IRAQ was a LIE.
Aren't you proud of yourselves?
YOUR PRESIDENT IS A LYING SACK OF ****
and you expect the people to back him up now?

WHY?

Answer 10

Cheney and Bush need to go on TV and start flapping their arms and say, "bawk bawk!" about the democrats. They are cowards.

It takes a brave person to manipulate the rules to get 5 deferrments from military service, I don't know if I'd have the guts to do it. How about flaunting the rules in the National Guard? Not me!!