Will this work for Iraq?

Question

Do something like Dick C. did. After the congress sent a budget to the white house that called for troop withdraw Dick C. went on NBC and said that G.W. would veto it and then congress would send another would send another through with out the troop withdraw. Thats what happened, just like Dick C. said.

So why not threaten to withdraw, If we did their would be a huge problem their, the extreemst would rule and the world would have to do something, If more troops from other countrys were involved it would make a huge differnce. They have the troops (like the fomer Ussr and china). Do it just like Dick C. did with the budget and tell the world we will if they don't help. Other countrys don't help much because we are their.

we DID go ahead without permission from the UN because they were exploiting Iraq with the oil for food program and ilegaly profiting from it. The UN would not stop free money.

What would we loose? GW would loose "face" but their is a lot more Oil in Iran.

Answer 1

Here's the problem with your idea. When you threaten an "or else I'll.......", you must actually be willing to go thru with it. Dick Cheney didn't "threaten" that GW would veto the bill. He let people know what was going to happen - it was no threat, it was no bluff.
"The World" knows that we won't leave Iraq if nobody else will come and help, so saying so would actually be a bluff, and a very poor one - it won't happen in the end because we would have the most to lose.

Answer 2

Our congress has their heads in the sand hoping for all this to go way.They are afraid to make a stand ether way because they don't want to be politically incorrect and are playing the blame game back and forth. They get payed to protect out country's interests but they have so many lobbyist wanting them to do certain things that benefits them because they funded that officials position and now they want their piece of the political cake. No ones doing their jobs and those who try are portrayed as against the troops or chickens.There payed to much for them to sit there and look pretty its time they did their jobs.

Answer 3

Interesting hypothesis.

But International troops (those not currently there), have a very bad record of not really getting anything productive done.

Less than 200 men with a small budget did more to end the civil war in Sierra Leone, than did 10000 UN peacekeepers spending billions.

Answer 4

Iraq isn't their problem, we DID go ahead without permission from the UN. And I think that some of the 2 most oil hungry nations wouldn't want to disrupt the flow from places like Iran and Libya.