What's President Bush's exit strategy from Iraq. Am I a "looney liberal" for asking?

Question

Am I unpatriotic?

Am I the reason the terrorists are winning - because they are reading my question and does it embolden them?

They read yahoo answers now apparently

Answer 1

I don't know what to make of you: you have Conservative views, liberal views and Heaven forbid.... views of your own (independent).

Can I just call you looney anyway? lol!

I don't know his exact exit strategy. Look at it this way:
A full withdrawal will not work.
Slow and systematic will only embolden the enemy.
He is in it to win it, not to run away from a new ally when they need our help. Iraq was not a happy place when Saddam was there but it isn't now. How many years after our independence from England did it take to (re)build our nation? What if the French said, "To hell with those people, let them die, bring our troops home now!"?

Answer 2

Was listening to Thomas L. Freidman on Charlie Rose the other night and part of what the problem is with Iraq is that Rumsfeld and Cheney and the Pentagon never had an exit strategy, they never really had a good plan for the war in the first , they thought they were going to go in like ww2, the Iraquis would be so happy to be liberated from the evil Saddam, that there'd be dancing in the streets and Iraquis would come together and the Americans could go home liberators.

Wrong. Should have followed Colin Powel's perscription, if it ain't broke don't break it and if you break it you stay until you can fix it again.

Cheney, Rumsfeld and the Pentagon apparently had not counted on the three things that made Iraq ripe for a strong man like Hussein, the Shia, the Sunis and the Kurds. Have to have an effective government where they can be working together for the good of Iraq and not planning to do evil to the sides that don't have the power.

They should bring in George Schultz, George Mitchell, Bill Richardson , Jim Baker , Henry Kissinger and anyone else from either party who is successful at negotiating , sit down with all sides and say we're not leaving until we get a solution that's workable from all of you so we can slowly let our troops come home and you and the iraqui military and not some war lords will be responsible for the security of your country.

Answer 3

Bush has no exit strategy from Iraq because there are no plans to leave that country until we've sucked every drop of OIL from its sands. We will be there for decades - maybe even generations.
IF that's not the case, WHY are we building the largest U.S. embassy in the world on a 104-acre site in downtown Baghdad overlooking the modest headquarters of the 'new' Iraqi puppet government installed by the Bushites??
IF that's not the case, WHY is Halliburton building fourteen (yes - 14!) new permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq??
We unconstitutionally, illegally, unjustifiably and immorally attacked Iraq for three really lame reasons:
1. The Bush family had a personal vendetta against Saddam Hussein ever since the days of Desert Storm when he humiliated George H.W. Bush. George, Jr. was selected to be President so he could 'settle the score';
2. Dick Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies want all that OIL swimming underneath Iraq's sands so they can 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) realized how profitable 'war' could be. So 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 embroiled in the Korean Conflict; the Cuban Missile Crisis; the Cold War; Vietnam and Desert Storm, all so that corporations like McDonnell-Douglass, Lockheed-Martin and Sikorsky could rake in billions of dollars and boost their sagging profits from so many years of peace time. Also, two newcomers to the federal government's 'war' trough had to be given billions of taxpayers' dollars: the Carlyle Group and Halliburton both have direct ties to the Bush-Cheney White House!

Even the Democratic Presidential frontrunner, Hillary Clinton, now says leaving Iraq will take a long time because it's so difficult and complicated. She knows the reality: the Bilderberg Conference of wealthy elitists, industrialists and power brokers (who control our country from behind-the-scenes) are intent on becoming even wealthier and more powerful - and that means they will keep our troops in Iraq until all the OIL is gone and there is no more blood money to be earned.
Are you unpatriotic?
Certainly not! We have a Constitutional right - and obligation - to question our government's actions, to doubt our government's word, and to hold a healthy dose of skepticism toward our government's motives. Since the Fourth Estate no longer takes its responsibilities seriously, we "the people" need to be more vigilant than ever. The government has lied to us countless times over these past fifty years. Anyone who takes the government's word 'verbatim' is gullible, naive and not too bright. -RKO- 08/20/07

Answer 4

Democratic answer: It's called kick the can down the road to January 2009.

Republican answer: He's waiting for general Petraeus to tell him and then his office will write the report and update us on what the generals-on-the-ground say.

No, you're not looney or unpatriotic. It's hard to keep up with WH rationalizations, so it's a valid question. It's our duty to stay informed and our prerogative to speak our minds, even though whatever we say doesn't really matter in the scheme of things.

Answer 5

Bush has an exit strategy. The troops stay until after he exists the White House. Really quite simple.

Answer 6

You asked two questions in your title:

1) As President Bush has said many times, the strategy is to help the Iraqi government and military to establish and strengthen themselves, and then leave when that is accomplished.

2) Any answer as to why someone would ask a question that has already been answered many, many times might violate the Terms of Service. So please just be content with answer # 1. thanks.

Answer 7

Bush's exit strategy is: Victory. Thats the choice victory or surrender. And yes people like you are causing more americans to die. Our enemies know that with each soldier or innocent Iraqi they kill they come closer to breaking the American will to fight. You may think you are unpatriotic, and certainly think any antiwar "activist" is unamerican and unpatriotic.

Answer 8

He doesn't have one. Unless you count the day he leaves office. Then the Democrats will get the blame for the war. Of course, they already have because (according to Republicans) they failed to take action prior to 9/11.
Just once I would like to see a Republican and/or Democrat or any other elected official take the blame for what happens. But no, They always blame things on each other. We have a party system in this country so no one person gets too much power. But with time and deterioration even that is starting to fail.
I blame most of this on people who won't take time to learn about candidates and then get out and vote. If everyone did that, what a GREAT country we would have again.

Answer 9

President Bush's exit strategy from Iraq:

Grab as much cash and oil as he and Cheney can get before the end of his term and let the next Administration worry about it.

Answer 10

There isn't one. It is a fact that they do not want to leave Iraq. It is all part of the plan. One day a lot of retards will realise that until then I will just keep telling them that the US will not leave Iraq. Have you noticed that there is less and less talk of the war on terror? That is simply because the US government needed a headline grabbing title to the war in order to brainwash idiots with limited intelligence into believing that there was a serious threat to the world and to get on board and support the government in the destruction of tyranny and terrorism. Now that a lot of people have woken up and realised exactly what is happening here there is no need to continue calling it the war on terror and people are simply referring to it more and more as the war. The surge is merely a new addition that is needed for the imminent war with Iran.