Bush and his cronies state that leaving Iraq would be cutting and running. What would we be cutting and running from? We eliminated the WMD that weren't there, they had their free elections, and we got rid of Saddam. Weren't these the objectives we set out to do? What do we have left to do to win the war and to avoid cutting and running?
2007-08-05 14:18:14 · 12 answers · asked by danman4472 2 in Politics & Government ➔ Elections
We can cut and run from someone else's civil war.
Truth be told, we can't leave now. Bush's policies have made a complete pig's breakfast of Iraq, and it's going to be up to the more level headed and intelligent Democrats to clean it up.
The War on Terror is not in Iraq. We should have our troops there. We should have civilians to help Iraq get out of it's current mess. But we can't be their cops indefinitely, which is what we are now.
2007-08-05 14:21:09 · answer #1 · answered by joshcrime 3 · 3⤊ 3⤋
Cutting and running from al Qaeda, for one.
The reason we did not find great quantities of wmd is because most of the materiels for them were shipped to Syria. The current violence in Iraq is centered mostly in Baghdad. It is an extremely large city with plenty of places to hide and carry out homicide bombings on the Iraqi people. To curtail the violence, the correct response was the troop surge. Having said that, it is encumbent upon the Iraqi government to step up its police campaign to reign in the perpetrators of those attacks. This will require them to make a decision if they are a civil government or an islamic government. They cannot have it both ways. We should begin a withdrawal (gradual) sometime after September, but it should not be announced to either the press or the people. It should be carried out in absolute secrecy to protect our troops. It should be noted that our economy, whether one wants to admit or not, is based on oil. We have had ample opportunities to graduate alternatives into our economy since the first embargo of 1973. We squandered that chance. It can still be done, but we should also open up offshore drilling as well as the desloate areas of Alaska. We cannot quit oil overnight or you will see a depression not unlike that of my parents' lifetime. All these things need to be taken gradually. A rush to judgment usually has deleterious effects.
2007-08-12 00:03:04 · answer #2 · answered by crusty old fart 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Cutting and running would mean exiting Iraq before their government is capable of defending the country from foreign invasion and/or domestic insurgency. If we left Iraq before the government could stand on its own it would likely crumble to Islamic extremists who'd convert Iraq into a terror state.
2007-08-05 21:24:03 · answer #3 · answered by kirbyguy44 3 · 3⤊ 1⤋
You need to get off the fly by media and learn what's going on in the world, Its not about a war in Iraq, its the war against Terrorism all over the world, they are comming to Iraq to fight us from all lands, would you rather they come to your home town and blow up your family, go ahead and spout the Radical leftist propaganda you might just get it..........Nuf Said
2007-08-05 21:24:53 · answer #4 · answered by Elo Fudpucker 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
What happens when the Iraqis are unable to protect themselves from a new terrorist group with a totalitarian leader comes and takes over the country. The US can leave Iraq when Iraq can defend itself. Then those lives were lost for nothing.
2007-08-05 21:22:21 · answer #5 · answered by preismyhero 2 · 4⤊ 1⤋
first of all, before I even answer your question, lets have a history lesson.......in 1991 saddam hussein U S E D WMD's on the Kurds......you liberals think you are so smart....I guess he crapped out a couple of gas canisters and thats it. How can you use something thats "not there"?
2007-08-10 18:46:59 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Apparently if we ever leave, that is cutting and running. We have to stay in iraq forever. Iraq belongs to Halliburton now.
2007-08-05 21:35:02 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Thumbs down question!!! Leave,disappear and you are a traitor to Your COUNTRY.You might agree with The Chief in command,but you have orders to obey. We are there for a reason,and that is to help them. We are making a difference. Go GOP!!! 2008!!
2007-08-05 21:31:23 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 2⤋
Anything less than doing what Bush wants and staying there indefinitely is "cutting and running" -- it's a meaningless term.
2007-08-05 21:20:34 · answer #9 · answered by coragryph 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋
Withdrawing our troops from this senseless, illegitimate war is what they term cutting and running. It is just another ploy to convince the masses that it is un-American to think we have no business in Iraq. I liken it to programming.
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2007-08-05 21:19:47 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 3⤋