Has the effect of this Republican Administrations war on Iraq made the country weaker and less defenseable?

Question

I believe that the effect of this Republican Administration led by George W Bush and Dick Cheney put the countries defenses in jeopardy. Does the support of old war horses like Senators John McCain and John Warner make the administration's stance and strategy of 'banging your head against a brick wall' seem like a good strategy.

Answer 1

Last years National Intelligence Estimate, (the consensus of all 16 US intelligence agencies) said the number of terrorists in the world had grown due to the US occupation of Iraq.

This year's NIE says that Al Qaeda is finalizing plans to attack the US.

If we have more enemies, of course the US will be more difficult to defend. If most of our combat troops, and 1/3 of our National Guard, are fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan, then it's clear that we will have trouble defending the US. So, yes, the US is more vulnerable and weaker, and it's largely because of the Republican Administration's war on Iraq.

Answer 2

The war is not weakening America. Hate is. Publically criticizing our president is. Dividing and protesting and not giving a damn what the world, especially our enemies, think of us. How is it that you think you or me or any other private citizen knows the extent of what you claim in your statement? How do you know what Osama Bin Laden is doing? Furthermore, he was doing just what you described up to 9/11 and were weren't at war with Iraq. How do you know that the Iraqis don't want us over there? And no, the Iraqi people did not attack us. We are not fighting Iraqis. We are protecting and trying help the Iraqi people. We are fighting Insurgents which are mainly terrorist from Syria and Iran. Terrorist who were being funded by Sadaam are no longer. More citizens have the basic utilities now than they did before the war. Children are in school and not in prisons or training for Sadaam. The Kurdish people have gone from exile in their own country, killed and mutilated by the thousands, to actually having a part in the military. These are people who before the war weren't allowed to hold a job, who had to depend only on the food and goods they could provide for themselves because of the prejudice against them. Instead of Iraqi oil money being used to fund American deaths or solid gold bathtubs and other extravagance for the Husseins and Sadaam's cohorts, it's feeding the citizens and improving the country's infrastructure. And did you know that some of our military doctors treat poor Iraqis who have never had any kind of medical attention? Maybe instead of Democrats wishing for the worst and taking great pleasure in shouting death numbers, propaganda to put fear and unease in the country, and if both sides quit trying to browbeat each other to submission, we should concentrate on getting the job done and getting home. The longer Congress vs. the Bush Administration goes on, the longer we'll be in Iraq. It's time to set aside pride, differences, and political parties and finish the job we started and then we can focus on other things.

Answer 3

The Bush Administration has shown the world that America had not learned from their mistake in Viet Nam.

Further, Bush has shown the world that American forces still cannot prevail over a third country.

The perfect way out: Have the people of Iraq take it to vote, if they want American service people to remain in Iraq. If the vote is no, America has turned Iraq into a democratic nation (which was one of Bush's reasons for invading Iraq), and the American service people can leave.

Answer 4

I can't answer that question, but I do know our borders are still wide open for anyone to cross so I guess this administration must know something we don't by not securing them after nine-eleven. Or maybe we know something they don't, like they truly are the morons we see them to be. Here's the truth, we don't really need our military here, nobody is going to land forces on our shores. We do however need the national guard here and not in Iraq. If Katrina didn't prove we aren't ready for a massive natural disaster I don't know what will. It's time to bring our troops home the longer it goes the more it looks like Vietnam in a desert.

Answer 5

The liberal agenda of destroying the the presidency, because they are spinless, is what is destorying this country. If Bush could allow the military handle this war and finish it, without the Dem's or media misrepresnting our troops and tactics; this war might be over. Instead the Dems waste tiem with unjustice investigations and these idiotic calls for the return of our troops or no confidence votes in the presidency. Can you imagine the respect this country would recieve if we were one nation fighting an enemy that WILL kill us all give the chance? Do you think Al Quaida would be demoralized to know that the American people will not stop?

But, No. You and your liberal friends have made a mockery out of the US and the US military. A failure in this war lies on the hands of the Dems, the Sheahan followers, and all other liberals that would rather persecute a soldier for putting panties on the head of some terrorist because it was cruel punishment; when if the roles were reversed, that terrorist would cut your head of in an instant.

Answer 6

Bush has put us in the position of losing many of the allies we had, sacrificed the lives of over 3,000 soldiers that we no longer have to protect us, keeps us in such a constant state of fear that we might as well start putting Xanax in city water. We've lost more freedoms from our own leaders than from anyone else. The terrorists must be pissing their pants laughing at Bush and Cheney (neither of whom ever went to war themselves).

Answer 7

You act as if no Democrat voted for war. LOL I seem to remember a vast majority of Democrats voting for war, and to fund it many, many times. I believe Clinton, Obama, and Kerry all voted to support the war. Well Kerry supported it before he didn't support it, then supported it. Now my head hurts.

Any appeasement of tyranny is treason to this republic and to the democratic ideal
-William Allen White

You shouldn't be an extremest!

Has this left us less defensible?

The era of procrastination, of half-measures, of soothing and baffling expedients, of delays, is coming to a close. In its place we are entering a period of consequences…
-Winston Churchill

Appeasers believe that if you keep on throwing steaks to a tiger, the tiger will become a vegetarian.
-Haywood Broun

Admittedly, there is a risk in any course we follow other than this, but every lesson in history tells us that the greater risk lies in appeasement, and this is the specter our well-meaning liberal friends refuse to face
-Ronald Reagan

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air
-Margaret Thatcher

Clinton tried to "do nothing" during his presidency and that got us 9/11

I think that doing nothing would have been worse!

Answer 8

I think it has made us weaker, and more hated than ever. The CIA is now saying that alqaida is at its strongest since 9-11 and that they expect another attack or attempt on the U.S. this summer. But bush gets on the TV and says they are weaker now. I do not believe anything he says now. And alqaida is only one of the terrorist groups.

Answer 9

The US is weakening because of poor economy which could not sustain its expensive weapons system.