For all the liberals in favor of setting a date for troop withdrawl.?

Question

What would have happened in WWII if we'd said "Hey, Hitler, guess what? We'll remove our forces from Europe on this date...mark it on your calendar!"

This is just on the issue of a date for troop withdrawl...nothing to do with the reasons for the war in the first place.

Answer 1

oh good lord.

if we had been in worldwar two the damn liberals would have protested us even going into germany. yelling

"GERMANY WAS NOT BEHIND PEARL HARBOR!"

Answer 2

You use Nazi Germany and WW II as a comparison to Iraq and yet you don’t want to acknowledge the differences between the two situations. For some posters who seem to be ignorant of the facts, Germany declared war on us. Iraq did not. You can’t ignore our reasons for being in this war to begin with and separate that factor out from how we should proceed. A just war must be fought to the bitter end while in an unjust war you should realize your error and cut your losses. In addition, our involvement in WW II was over by this length of time.

The other major differences are that there was a stated goal in WW II, which there is not in Iraq and the enemy was clear. We most certainly were not trying to prop up a government and get in the middle of a civil war between sectarian factions.

Answer 3

I understand the comparison...Simply put..A country at war doesn't tip it's hand if they want to win said war... The problem with your question is most people have already made up their minds.... For your point..the comparison is close enough...But the wars are different..Alow me to spotlight the not so obvious differences. 1) This war was entered under a Republican President 2) This war was justified using a lot of Clinton era intel 3) This president (BUSH) refuses to remind anybody of point #2 4)John Kerry said in the 90's not to vote for him if you didn't believe Iraq had WMD's..or something like that..gosh that's changed so many times ..he's confused me 5) This war is with a nation that did not attack us first...oh wait, Germany didn't either..never mind that point...6)This war was justified on the premise that Iraq had WMD's This argument was largely based on intel from MANY other governments (I guess they are liars to) 7)Iraq DID have WMD's while Germany was only developing theirs...unless you count chemical.. 8) FDR, the U.S. President during WWII communicated almost constantly with the American public about the war and why we were in it...Bush has not so much 9) The media often reminded the public of our enemies atrocities during WWII..Modern media reminds us of how Bush is bad..bad..bad...Hell they seldom even show the World Trade Center..lest we think Iraq did it... Simply put Modern wartime mistakes (and they certainly exist) are shown and commentated on over and over and again... WWII had plenty of coverage.... but not real time and not so biased...unless you count routing for Americans biased.

Answer 4

How can you possibly believe the two are comparable?
We are not fighting an advancing imperial power. Rather we are contributing to a civil war.
We are not trying to remove a tyrant from control but rather reinforce the control of the government we support.
The basis for a timeline is simple - without one the Iraqi government will never be given responsibility for the security of Iraq. If they do not have that responsibility they have no credibility within the region and the destabilization is reinforced.

Answer 5

We are going to leave – we always were going to leave – and everyone in the world always knew that.

They live there – they will always live there – and we cannot stay forever.

What more do they need to know? A time table is irrelevant to what will become of Iraq.

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Hey Adam the return –

Roosevelt had to drag isolationist (and Hitler business partner) conservatives into WWII kicking and screaming like babies.

If conservatives had been successful in colonial America we all would still be British subjects. If conservatives had been successful in the 1800s women still would not be allowed to vote and Blacks would still be slaves.

Answer 6

Two major differences -- first, we're not facing a single opponent in Iraq -- Iraq is a multi-party conflict and we're not one of the sides, With Europe, we were facing one unified opponent, the combined forces of Hitler and Mussolini.

Second, Hitler had a declared mission to take over the world. Most of the factions in Iraq have no interest in controlling anything outside their own borders

Other than that, yes, the concept of leaving Europe on its own to resolve it's internal problem is similar to the issue of whether to leave Iraq on its own to resolve its own internal conflicts. And there were a lot of people -- mostly conservatives -- who believed we should have stayed out of WW2 and left Europe to its own.

Answer 7

So what? People are asking for withdrawal within the next five years. Is that too much to ask? I wish I had as much faith in the Iraq officials as you do. We don't even know who the hell we are fighting. If only al Queda would wear identifiable uniforms.

Answer 8

Yes, because all of Europe, which was dependent on the US military to evolve into a sovereign government, established a recess for the entire month of February because it was too "cold".

Right?

Answer 9

This isn't the same world as it was 64 years ago, and Iraq is not Nazi Germany. There simply is no comparison. Turns out, when you actually go ask the soldiers, the majority of THEM believe we should get our butts outa there post haste!
You think not? Then why aren't YOU in uniform serving over there?

Answer 10

Commonsense, your name really should be No Sense. You really have no clue about WWII except maybe watching Band of Brothers to many times. WWII and Iraq have no similarities so stop trying to compare them.

Answer 11

What if I told you "your out of here in 30 days" How much work would you do in the next 30 days?