How come republicans want the US to lose the war in Iraq?

Answer 1

the intelligent answer is because they're stupid...I'm serious...they're truly stupid.

Answer 2

It is a loaded question. Nobody wants his country to lose a war. In politics. the hardliners do not want their leader to lose face.

However the situation has changed dramatically after the initial successes of invasion.

Now, you cannot ignore the following facts.

1. Anti-war protests are increasing because of heavy casualties of the marines
2. Moderate Republicans are joining ranks with the Democrats.
3. Iraq's prime minister, Maliki, has said that the Iraqis do not need America, they can run the country themselves.

It's the crunch time for America. All the pros and cons must to be weighed carefully.

What happens next? Can the US rush ahead blindly for quick withdrawal of US troops without consultation with it's allies.

1. What will happen to Kuwait, which is a major source of crude supply to the US and its allies.
2. What happens to countries like Turkey, which is a secular Muslim country and still has some Jewish population? Can Turkey cope with a new wave of terrorism that spills over the Iraq border after American withdrawal?

You cannot overlook the fact that Kuwait was under threat when the Iraq War I was backed by its allies with full mandate of the UN Security Council..

Now the US is mired in the Iraq War II because of faulty intelligence of the CIA and misleading feedback of Iraq's own dissidents like Badawi who is no longer seen or heard.

This is a critical time for GW Bush. He should no longer rely on the advice of the hardliners. He can take charge of the situation by inviting bi-participation advice and support for a rational decision for troops withdrawal within a time frame.

If both the Republicans and Democrats could back the President when the US decided to invade Iraq, why can't they do it now and salvage the image of the country?

In critical times like this, best decisions are made through consultation, not through confrontation.

Answer 3

Republicans don't care who 'wins' or 'loses' the 'war' in Iraq. We are there - and have been there since Day One - for three grotesquely lame reasons:
1. The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein even since Desert Storm, when George H.W. Bush was criticized, ridiculed, and humiliated for 'not finishing the job' and ousting Hussein at that time;
2. Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies want all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so they can all get richer and richer and richer feeding America's addiction to cheap, easily-accessible foreign OIL;
3. Ever since World War Ii, the giant U.S. military-industrial complex (which Eisenhower warned us about) saw how profitable 'war' could be. So, all the politicians were bought up, pricey lobbyists were hired, and special interest groups were formed to promote and encourage more 'war'. Thus, the U.S. became entangled in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam and Desert Storm - all so McDonnell-Douglass, Lockheed-Martin, Sikorsky and other Pentagon contractors could enhance their bottom lines. -RKO- 07/16/07

Answer 4

Because some Republicans wants to pull our troops out of Iraq, doesn't mean they want us to lose the war.

Maybe they came to a realization that this war is lost and can not be won, so why sacrifice more Americans for a lost cause?

Answer 5

Many Republicans are coming around to understand that Iraq is a "Catch-22" situation.

There is no winning the war /occupation of Iraq; merely mitigating our losses. That can only occur when the "Stay the Course" plan of action promulgated by the Bush Administration changes to a plan more sympathetic to the mounting casualties of our soldiers.

Answer 6

I haven't been real happy with the Republicans of late, but I've never heard ANY say they want us to "lose" the war in Iraq. In fact, part of our problem is their belief that we can "win" a war in Iraq, when in fact we don't have a cohesive force to fight against, and instead are mainly policing Iraq's civil war.

Answer 7

I don't know that they want us to lose the war in Iraq, I just think that they want us to take as long as humanly possible to win it so that they are able to play the fear of attack card as much as they can. Good thing for them that they have a guy like bush who can mismanage anything you give him. Good thing for America, he won't be in office anymore soon. It would be even better, if we had somebody that would give us some kind of exit strategy, forget a time table. We don't even have a strategy to get towards a time table right now because of the incompetence that is being displayed in waging this war. Here's hoping that somebody will come along with some kind of strategy to get us the hell out of there.

Answer 8

They don't.

Most republicans (as a generality) believe that it is possible to "win" in Iraq, if we stay there long enough.

Therefore, most Republicans keep voting to keep the troops there, in the hopes that our continued presence will somehow end the violence (all evidence to the contrary).

The thing is, it's impossible for the US to "lose" in Iraq, just like it's impossible for the US to "win" in Iraq. The US is not a party to the conflict. We have no single enemy we can defeat. In fact, we don't even have any military objectives of our own.

We're just there in support of one of the factions in a civil/sectarian war. So, while that faction may win or lose, we cannot win or lose. We're the only ones setting a measure on what we're trying to accomplish, so we can declare victory (or defeat) at any time unilaterally.

Thus, "winning" and "losing" are meaningless, because we are the ones ones involved at all in determining if we've met our objectives.

Answer 9

Did Harry Reid, Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, John Kerry, et al..suddenly changes parties???

Why didn't anyone put this news on FOX???

Answer 10

Let me start by saying that you're a friggin moron. Republicans want to win much more than Democrats. Who wants to leave Iraq? Who cares about civilian casualties? Who won't support our troops with funding or let them do what they're trained to do That's right, douchebag. All Democrats. Go pick up a newspaper and stop looking at porn.

Answer 11

This is just confusing... I think you have your wires crossed or something... It's the liberals that want to "cut and run" which will garantee that we lose in Iraq... conservatives want to stay, which won't garantee that we win, but will certainly better our chances of a victory than if we simply give up...