As the Surge continues to fail, what are we still doing in Iraq?

Answer 1

oil

Answer 2

I am definitely not for a continued strategy in Iraq by no means. I want a phased withdrawal beginning within the next six months. I believe the notion that overthrowing Saddam was going to make us safer and destroy al Qaeda was ridiculous in the first place and played into the hands of the terrorists by making Iraq the center piece in their propaganda to portray the United States as international bullies.

But, I do not feel that we can start to declare the surge a failure at this point. The surge should have not started in my opinion, but lawmakers allowed it to happen and now we must see where this action takes us. It is pretty much common sense that there will be no immediate results from the surge. Any results will have to looked at over the period of at least a year. There is too much red tape, beauracracy, and turmoil in the I raqi government and also in the Iraqi society to find any actual proof of whether the surge is working or not. The troops have to get set up and deployed to the right regions first. Then they have to get their objectives. Then they are going to have to understand how to implement and obtain their objectives. This is not going to happen in a few months. The only thing that could happen in a few months time would be getting the troops deployed. Now they have at least two more parts left.

Also, the number of casualties are going to go up. It is like fishing in a lake. The more fish that are in the lake, the better chance it is that you are going to catch one. What the insurgence are doing and have been doing for the past couple of years is fishing with our troops being the fish and the Iraqi civilians being the bait.

This new strategy is nothing of a change in course, but rather the same course with added troops. With this strategy, it will most assuredly take years, even decades to see any progress, if any is indeed to come. As I said that is why I was opposed to the surge in the beginning.

Answer 3

Independent polls taken of Iraqis demonstrate that a great majority of them want both the Americans AND Al-Queda out of their land. (And polls taken of American serving soldiers in Iraq tell us the majority of them think we should not be there - see the Zogby poll of early 2006; Zogby is a GOP pollster)

Once we leave, and eventually we will (altho in the Green Zone we are now building the largest embassy by far in the world) the Iraqi nationalists will suppress ALL foreigners with guns.

Despite the prevarications of President Cheney & his brain-damaged cut-out, Saddam despised Al-Queda. And of course he had no WMDs, that was a propaganda lie promoted by the neocons, who incidentally are the most dangerous enemies of America that ever existed - traitors more lethal than a million Benedict Arnolds. (And conservatives who support Cheney are rubberstamping his treason. These guys are not heirs to Reagan and Goldwater!)

The only Iraqis that want us there are the Kurds - they want to split Iraq and grab off the oil-rich north. But that will precipitate a war with our NATO ally, Turkey.

This whole thing is, as Ret General Odom has said, the "biggest strategic disaster in American history."

Oil had its part in the war's origin. But even more did the treason of the neocons. Check the Web for the 1996 position paper titled "A CLEAN BREAK," written for the prime minister of a Mideast nation.

The paper calls for the overthrow of Saddam, in the interest of that nation (not of the US). Then, google the names of the Americans (yes, Americans!) who wrote the paper. You will see that these "Americans" with a prime loyalty to another country later became the "neo-conservatives" who engineered Cheney and the vainglorious cut-out into this war contrary to American global interests.

Tens of thousands of dead Iraqis, almost 4000 dead Americans, militant Islam on the rise worldwide - the neocon Cheney Administration has been a disaster for America's true interests. And all for the benefit of a country not ours.

Answer 4

Babysitting another countries civil war and protecting the interests of the Military Industrial complex.Most important reason saving Bushes face.He doesn't want to be the one who pulls out so he isn't the one who "lost the war".Still doesn't understand that war was lost the first day of the invasion.Not really worth the cost in money and lives but there is no reason to assume based on experience that will make a difference for Bush

Answer 5

A car bomb killed 100 people today in Iraq. Does anyone truly believe that our presence in Iraq will eliminate these suicide bombings? These groups have killed each other for 100s of years. How naive to think that we could come riding in on a white horse to save these people from themselves.

Posters continue to state that the surge is working. Please list your proof. I would welcome the opportunity to be convinced otherwise.

Answer 6

its an occupation and we are there as Condi and the gang ramp up the rhetoric against Iran to stir everyone into a frenzy of terror. Then they are going to say we need to stay and protect Iraq from Iran and be ready to invade Iran if they try anything.

Answer 7

You have to give "the surge" time,

perhaps another 40 years of perpetual war while the American oil corporations steal as much Iraqi oil as they can get their hands on.

Answer 8

Its a good question. The Iraqis do not want to form a stable civil society so why should we stay there. If the Iraqis want to have a petty sectarian conflict where they act like pre-Enlightenment savages, let them.

Answer 9

Where do you get your information that the "surge" is failing? The leftist media?

We are still in Iraq because they cannot yet fend for themselves. If we leave, it will become a breeding ground for terrorists who will be plotting to attack us here, in the US.

Answer 10

The King said "be patient" many times but that just converts to more of our soldiers deaths. I don't know why we ever went there in the first place, maybe it was because so many people believed so many lies!

Answer 11

You know the weapon business is the best of the world. If the conflict comes to end the poor owners of the weapon factories would have to file bankruptcy.