Do you feel disappointed that the military hasnt done the job its supposed to in Iraq?

Question

I remember a certain comment made by their commander in chief years ago declaring victory. So why are the troops still there when they won the war years ago? The victory parade is taking an awful long time.

Answer 1

I did everything possible to support them (slamming lefties and making their life hell), so it is disappointing to find they have been slamming the dog for four years. Don't know what to do next, any ideas?

Answer 2

That's too broad. Way too broad.

The initial campaign was a good military job.
Much of the military since have done the very best they can.
With those numbers under those conditions for that length of time, there will be horrors and failures and disappointments.
That comes with troops being human.

My disappointment, and probably stronger terms too, is focussed on the strategic planning for the war and the peace, at the political civilian and possibly high-level military level.

Preparation and planning prevents piss-poor performance
(As the British army has it)
Leave aside whether the war should have happened. That remains divisive.
The planning for the post-assault period was hopeless, ranging from non-existent to wildly optimistic to the bizarre.

Don't blame the military across the board: find those who put military formations into the situation that now exists.
The companies on the ground are doing their best.

Answer 3

Is it the military that hasn't done the job or the government?

I am pretty sure the soldiers are doing what they were sent to do. They will continue to do so until they are commanded to stop.

Answer 4

No I am not dissapointed, the job of the military is to fight wars not rebuild countries,that is the job of politicians.Heck we can't even rebuild New Orleans and we are trying to rebuild a country,and a Muslim one at that,how stupid is that?
God bless our troops.

Answer 5

The military did the job it was "supposed" to do in Iraq, it wasn't the same job most Americans were told they were supposed to do. Probably not the one a lot of troops were told they were doing. Sure we were told a lot of things to make us feel good about killing 200,000 people and causing the deaths of 400,000 more, people who mostly had never done us any harm or even wanted to.

We were told was supposed to:
a) find and eliminate WMDs (there weren't any)
b) Eliminate a horrible dictator who was torturing his people and presented a threat to the neighboring states (he was horrible and we eliminated him, but he wasn't a threat to the neighboring states and replaced his torture with our own)
c) Bring democracy to Iraq (yeah, to me it looks like we brought Iraq anarchy and civil war with a theocratic twist)

Now, most of the lies we were told were pretty obvious before we started, so while I'm pretty dismayed that we went to war, I don't in large part feel disappointed in the military. Even the Abu Ghraib torture ideas seemed to have originated with top-level right-wing hubris, racist ideas towards Arabs and christo-fascist ideas towards Muslims that I think can be layed right at George Bush's policy.

Answer 6

are you kidding me? troops are dying over there, and you're saying they aren't doing their jobs? the military is fighting for the freedom of people all over the world. their job is never done.

Answer 7

The nature of the war machine is such that it is mindless. It exists for only one reason. Greed. Mercenaries in the highest government levels are disguised with their sleek intellect. Yet truth will prevail. It is already eating away at their conscience from within like cancer.

Answer 8

they have done their job,its bush who wont bring them home,dont you listen to anything other than what you want to

Answer 9

Geez.... Don't *ANY* of you people actually listen to *ANYTHING* other than Democrat talking points?