they wrote an editorial in the new york times. they also say the corporate media is giving the false impression that we are making progress.
2007-08-25 17:39:15 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Military
In my 20 years in the military, I never found the opinion of me or my fellow soldiers to be anymore insightful on a strategic level than anyone else's.
2007-08-25 17:45:27 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
40 intelligence agencies of the U.S. government issued their findings this past Thursday. The IC (Intelligence Community) concluded that there has been only sporadic and limited progress in outlying districts, but in Baghdad the situation has gone from bad to worse. There has been no policitalm progress at all. Indeed, the Iraqi goverment is expected to grow only less effective over the next 12 months.
The soldiers who risked court martial to tell us the truth by writing to the N.Y. Times are right and they deserve our full support.
What's going on here is this: Bush tells us one thing and he tells the Iraqis another. The Iraqis know how to solve the problem and they are working with their neighbors and the Canadian government to do it. The Iraqi Constitution establishes that they will have a federal system and not a central government. Under the federal system, the Sunnis and Shiites will set up their own regions within Iraq modeled on what was done in Kurdistan. Oil revenues will be shared and the federal government in Baghdad will provide for the common defense, secure the borders and mediate disputes between the regions.
This plan was introduced and has been promoted for 1 1/2 years by United States Senator Joe Biden, Chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Biden has been dealing with these people for 34 years and he knows them and they know him. Before Bush took office he had never even been to Europe--not even once! Bush was forced to call upon Biden to brief him on the European leaders, as Bush knew nothing about the political affiliations of any of these leaders.
Bush doesn't want Iraq to federate because the credit will go to a Democrat, Senator Biden. It's that simple and that sinister.
2007-08-26 00:53:08 · answer #2 · answered by Steve C 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Of course we're making progress, you can't believe what you read or hear on the t.v. or newspapers. I don't know when the last time was the media said we were makin progress. You can't listen to a soldier who is upset about having to be there and wants to vent his frustrations. I've been to Iraq twice, and yes it's a rollercoaster. It gets better then worse then better. But I will tell you this, for each terrorist or insurgent I kill it's one less that's going to come over here and mess with you on your turf. So I call it success.
2007-08-26 08:55:50 · answer #3 · answered by Matt 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Would you give up your anti-war crusade already. Blaming the corporate media and Bush for everything isn't going to solve everything even if we leave now like you want. Oh and the media isn't promoting the war. Just as the New Republic magazine that said we are committing war atrocities there. So no I don't agree. What soldiers see on the battlefield like my cousin see isn't the whole strategic picture. So no, I don't agree.
2007-08-26 00:50:57 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
My husband is stationed at Fort Campbell, and I work with soldiers every day on the army post. Many of them do say that we are not making progress, and there is no point in us being there. They also report Iraq is very different than what we see on the news. There are underground videos, made by soldiers, showing Iraq and what has really happened there. I've watched parts of the videos but it is very difficult to watch because of all the dead bodies, in cars, on the street, in houses, all murdered. From what I've heard from soldiers with multiple deployments we are not making progress in Iraq. How can you make a country, that doesn't want to get along with each other, get along?
2007-08-26 00:47:01 · answer #5 · answered by sierrakt 2 · 3⤊ 1⤋
These soldiers are full of beans. There is one way you can all know beyond any reasonable doubt that things are improving drastically in Iraq.
Both Hillary and Obama are saying it is true. When a democrat starts to position themselves in front of an issue you can believe that something big is going on and they don't want to be caught on the wrong side of the issue.
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2007-08-26 01:04:56 · answer #6 · answered by Jacob W 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep i think we wasting money trying to stop something that is not going to stop best if we was here working to stop them from getting in than there..... you cant change something that has been going on since the beginning they have been fighting thousand of years... we have our own problems here like the homeless and the sick our schools being run kids who dont know our companies going we have people here with the same troubles
2007-08-26 00:51:56 · answer #7 · answered by infoman89032 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Your question lost any shred of credibility when you mentioned The New York Times...
2007-08-26 00:54:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
yeah..going to iraq was such a stupid idea. we havent made ANY progress since the war began
2007-08-26 00:48:56 · answer #9 · answered by asker 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
7 out of what, 200,000? Not quite the odds I would support.
2007-08-26 01:30:33 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋