Why are liberals more concerned about quiting a mission in Iraq than completeing it?

Question

quiting when the going gets tough ehh?

yes were losing when we took a whole countyr in a month? ur libs r too negative ur ruining the country

Answer 1

Because the thought of a win, would mean the Republicans would look good and be right, which we are :) Anything the Dem's can do to put a stick in the eye of president bush

Answer 2

So when are you going to volunteer & go help out over there? Why don't we just make Iraq our 51st state, would that make you happy? It don't matter if we leave tomorrow, next week, next month, next year or whenever, Iraqs will still end up fighting it out to see who controls it. Bush is still staying the course & more of our troops will die. The defination of stupid is doing the same thing over & over again and expecting different results. That's what I'm not understanding about you war mongers. All 3 main tribes over there want us out. The American people voted last Nov. to end the war. Are you expecting John Wayne to come save the day? This is not going to happen. Do you expect the President to fly in on a jet fighter and say "Mission Accomplished"? Now how stupid would that be? If this was a boxing match, the referee would have stopped the fight by now.

Answer 3

And what mission is that? Steal Iraqi oil?

Saddam is out of power, hanged, had nothing to do with 9/11 or terrorist, but you want us to continue have 4 kids come back in body bags every single day, or the injured return to hospitals you won't fund! Currently, the VA, who Bush cut by 100 Billion while giving tax cuts to the rich, is treating 105,000 Iraqi vets!

If we ever had a mission it is done. We don't need to lose more in a war that is militarily not winable!

"Military alone can't solve Iraq problems
March 8: America's new top general in Iraq says there's no pure military solution to the war, and solving Iraq's problems will mean negotiating with insurgents to find political solutions. NBC's Richard Engel reports. You can see more of our indepth interview with Gen. David Petraeus on Friday's broadcast.
NBC Nightly News

We lost the war the day we attacked Iraq with not enough troops, even as the civil war began, Bush did not send in enough troops to nip it in the bud early. It was "Stay the Course", which really meant US and other service people were used as daily target practice by the militants, and still are.

When 2/3 of America does not want to be in this war of misery and death you have caused, Bush's actions can be nothing more than a boost for the Democrats! You wont see another Republican president in the next 2 decades!

All you can giveis Bush, Bush, Reagan and Nixon? Makes me want to puke!

Answer 4

First of all, you must define just what the mission is! So far, there is no clear definition of the mission nor are there clear goals set that would define "Job Done".

Righ now, we are mired down just tryig to contain tghe sectarian violence. The Iraqi government is not stepping up to the plate here. As long as they know we will keep our troops in harms way, they have little reason to get off their asses and pony up to the job.

Letting them know that by a specific date, our troops will be gone, places a deadline on them that they can't ignore. If they are at all interested in saving Iraq as one nation, they will be forced to take action.

Answer 5

Please define the mission.

Bush gave a couple upfront that turned out to be lies.

Saddam didn't have nukes or WMD he could deliver to the US, and even if he had any, the CIA knew Saddam would not commit suicide by using them on us or giving them to terrorists who did. We have 10,000 nukes and are the only nation to every have used them. We could burn Iraq off the map and still have enough to destroy the world several times over. We may forget that, but the rest of the world doesn't.

Likewise, intelligence agencies knew talk of secular Saddam throwing in with religious fundamentalist al Qaeda was not credible.

If you still believe the "War on Terror" excuse, the war has made us more unpopular in the Arab World and the longer we stay, the worse that will get.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/13/news/pew1.php
http://pewglobal.org/commentary/display.php?AnalysisID=1019
http://pewglobal.org/reports/display.php?PageID=800

I support the idea of democracy in Iraq, but they don't need our troops for that, and Bush has some funny ideas of what democracy means. For one, he vetoed the Iraqis first choice for prime minister, and he told the present prime minister he will withdraw his support if Iraqis don't pass the Hydrocarbon Law that gives American oil companies up to 80% of Iraq's oil income. Usually, democracy means looking after the interest of your own people not a foreign power.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/iraqi-prime-minister-bush-will-fire-me.html
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/iraqi-scholars-pols-say-reject.html

Likewise, if we cared about democracy, we would look at polls of Iraqis that show they want us to leave.
http://whatiraqiswant.blogspot.com
http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/250.php?nid=&id=&pnt=250&lb=brme

The remaining mission is getting that oil, which is why Bush is leaning on the Iraqis about that Hydrocarbon Law so hard.

For people who knew a little history and weren't fooled by Bush's comic book level primary justifications for the war, there was a quieter second sell about cheap oil to run our economy that Thomas Friedman & Pat Roberson sold among others.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/03/bbcs-greg-palast-iraq-war-to-cap-oil.html

Unfortunately, the real goal was to keep oil prices up by preventing Saddam from pumping too much when sanctions came off.
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2007/03/oil-too-cheap-if-no-iraq-war-says-oil.html
http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2006/04/new-dsm-bush-told-putin-iraq-war.html

That is not a mission that is worth our tax dollars, troops lives, and hundreds of thousands of Iraqi lives.

Answer 6

Because we're done sending our young men and women over there to be injured or killed for a country of people who do not appreciate us being there. We won militarily in the beginning, but we did not expect to have to play the role of police. The Iraqis apparently are not ready to step up into the 21st century and have jobs and take care of their families by raising the quality of their lives. They seem to be too busy bowing down to Allah and fighting with each other. To put it simply, they're just not worth it anymore.

Answer 7

Well after a while even the biggest dolt stops trying to push his fist through a brick wall.

You know, I guess really I can sit back and say have all the war you want...what do I care...I'm not there...so if other Americans want to go off and get KIA'd or maimed for life for a made up war of a lunatic president...then hey go for it!!!

Or I can stand up and say...it's wrong and it's wrong for Americans (the best 1% of our society) to be abused this way by an Administration that truly care nothing for them.

I choose to stand up and say enough is enough, bring this nation's best home so they can be available when our freedom truly is threatened.

Answer 8

You sound like Caligula who ordered his legions to attack the ocean. At least they brought back chests of sea shells!

Are you willing to fight on to the last drop of somebody else's blood? This war, ( if that is what you call the occupation) was never winnable, not clearly defined and had no exit strategy. How long is it going to continue and to what end ?

Answer 9

Because it will be never won. It will be never be completed.
Therefore for most Americans they would probably want the troops home alive instead of coming home in body bags.
Quit now !

Answer 10

because the completion of the mission is staying there permanently and that is not really the democrats mission and apparently what Americans want..