Why do we want to lose?

Question

Do you believe we could win the Iraq war if we would fight to win? We are a country of winners and I think we would support the war if we were fighting to win

Answer 1

If we were fighting to win yes we could indeed win. Do you really think our military is stupid enough to not know the difference between an insurgent and a terrorist? If we were fighting to win though what would happen to all the lucrative military industrial contracts? We don't want to win, otherwise we wouldn't be buidling permanent military bases in Iraq. We aren't there to spread freedom and democracy. We are there for good.We are there for control.

Answer 2

Number 1 - I don't think we should have invaded Iraq because someone scared our corrupt government that the boogeyman, Saddam Hussein, was storing WMD under our beds. It was our CIA that put him in charge in the first place. He was also anti Al-CIAda.

Number 2 - I think a majority of Americans believe like I do, that if we or one of our allies was attacked, we would do everything within reason to help resolve the conflict and only send in our Troops as a last resort, as we did in World War II. With the help of other nations that were being invaded, we did send enough Troops to win and we did win. As a matter of fact we helped end that war in less time than we have been in Iraq. The only people who want this war are those that want to make money from it.

WWII was the last War. Korea & Vietnam both started as Police Actions and later were recagorized as wars. Both were also started with "false flag incidents" arranged by the CIA. The Gulf war was also a false flag operation and the then president George H W Bush did not continue to go after Saddam.

Please don't confuse the staged events of 9/11 with an attack. Those events were a series of covert operations that were meant to mislead us.
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Answer 3

There was not a single battle we ever lost in Vietnam.

But our presence there was ill advised and we couldn't see the forest for the trees.

This war in Iraq will go down as the most selfish blunder the U.S. has ever made!

War is not a three dimensional board game on your kitchen table!

It isn't a video game either!

Get a life and start reading all of these books being written about this war by people who have actually been there!

Answer 4

Don't be a fool. This was never meant to be a winnable war.
We were set up by our so-called leadership from the beginning. I don't ever think we set out to lose but we have officers in Iraq who summarize this fiasco in 10 words:
"Right people, Right place, Right strategy, too little, too late. " With all this surge in place we only control 40% of Bagdad, and almost none of the rest of the country, as it spirals into sectarian civil war. We lost when Bush stole his first election and misled us into a bogus war.
The real winners are Boeing, Haliburton, Blackwater, and other major corporations as well as the oil companies.
They are the winners.

Answer 5

For months now winning has been stated as getting
the Iraqi people back on line and self governing.

this is a police action, we are the police force. Police don't win and they don't lose. The only people that can win is the Iraqis that will enjoy life without tyranny.

winning and losing in this situation is completely political from the standpoint of America's involvement. It is what the
left has banked a return to power upon by concentrating on our involvement.

The Iraqis have held a free election and are working on a
framework to govern, The left would be so upset if before
the next election cycle..the people of Iraq were to win peace and control of their Country.

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Tomb's disjointed conspiracy-nut diatribe is proof positive of what I have submitted

Answer 6

Ok

What would be a "win"in this scenario ?

Regime change - "Mission acomplished"

Killing all the insurgents ? Who are they and why is they are in huge enough nunbers to kill so many soldiers ? Are you sure that this isn't a civil war in which America has picked sides ?


If it is a civil war then victory is defeating one side of a nation - in a domestic dispute ? The win is killing half a nation - Wow -

Yes you could win but that will take many decades -

What is win ?

What do you need to do see or hear to be able to say

We won ?

Answer 7

Yay let's go team! We can win! Who are we? "WINNERS!" And what do we do? "WE WIN!" ::waves small Made in China American flag::

OMG can you be any more gullible? There is no war on terrorism because you CANNOT have a war on an concept or idealogy.

Let me ask you this: How is the war on drugs going? Drug us is at the same level it was since the 80's.

If we need a war on any idealogy, it should be a war on stupidity.

Answer 8

The actual combat operations were indeed a win. That said this war was lost before it ever started as it was the wrong war in the wrong place at the wrong time lead by the wrong management team (The Esteemed Mr Bush & Mr. Rumsfeld) who simply had no plan for post war Iraq.

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Answer 9

Wars can be won when they are fought over who controls a physical area. The "enemy" in this situation is a "idea", control over what humans think, what values humans have. Armed combat only strengthens and increases the will of the people we oppose. This war can't be won by armed combat.

The only way to "win" this war is to kill everyone with opposing views, that is morally wrong.

Answer 10

I am proud of my country (though much less so of it's government).

Your question reminds me of an old quote.

"War does not determine who is right. It determines who is left."

No, I don't think we can "win" the Iraq war---it was never about "winning" anyway. It was SUPPOSED to be about a war on terror. So I was always dumbfounded that we didn't go after Bin Laden; the actual terrorist. The Iraq war is more about politics and oil than anything else. Forcing our ways on them, and taking their natural resources.