Is this a good reason to set a 'time table' for getting out of Iraq?

Question

The average Iraqi soldier gets 4 months off a year, in comparison to 2 weeks for US soldiers. Whenever there is a problem, the Iraqi military defers to the US military to solve it. Basically, the Iraqi military are NOT well trained, not prepared to fight, and I believe this is because they simply dont have to. There is a competent army behind them that allows them to shirk any responsibility, and sit on the sidelines while we fight their battles. If we are waiting for them to be ready to run their country before we leave, we will be waiting a very long time. But if we started setting dates, this would pressure them into getting their act together.

Some argue that setting a time table for getting out just gives the terrorists and insurgents a date to shoot for. But at the same time, it gives the Iraqi military a date to shoot for as well, in terms of preparing to police their own country. They are not getting ready on their own - so maybe they need a fire lit under them.

Wow talk about a complete lack of answers. Its like you see the words 'time table' and go off on a partisan rant without reading the rest of the post.

Answer 1

Our military personnel get 30 days of leave each year.

Setting a timetable is not completely realistic. We can have goals and try to get things done, but we should have functional and operational goals, not a date.

Answer 2

Greetings. take the thinking cap out and put it on. You are in America. America is invaded. mass bombing attack and destruction of all the utilities like electric, water, sewage disposal. the enemy, say Russia from the old days, then comes in and occupies you and begins indiscriminately shooting people because they don't speak Russian. The occupation forces then ask for Americans to join them and help them subdue and control their fellow Americans so the Russians can go home. what would you think of the Americans who volunteered to join the Russian occupation forces to keep our people under the yoke of Russia? I would call them traitors. and i believe the Iraqi people call their people who are doing exactly that the same. You do realize if you did it here when a foreign power occupied us that every honest American would be honor bound to blow your head off? Why think that the Iraqi people are different then we are? all people. all want to live and want their children to live. Setting a time table? Just get the hell out and leave the people to settle their own religious war that we started by invading illegally. And destroying their entire civil authority while not replacing anything. We are the problem in Iraq. not the people.

Answer 3

Okay, this war is a mess. The problem is that the U.S. does not know about foreign policy because they focus on football, sports, american idol and celebrity news. The result will be bad both ways. If we stay, the mess is going to be greater and greater because it is growing and we created a terrorist haven. If we leave, the shia after a long 30 years of oppression by the sunni, will slaughter millions of sunnis in iraq resulting in another genocide. The main thing is that we should of not gone to the war. Hey, we started it.

Answer 4

It depends if the U.S. government plans to follow its own plan. It's plan was to train a fixed number of police and soldiers, hand over providences as soon as the Iraqis were capable of securing the area (over half of Iraq's providences are in full control of Iraq's government) and complete a fixed number of infrastructure projects (which have been handed over to Iraq). Now if the US is following its own plan, it should be running out of reasons to stay and be done by May of 2008 (when the last of the providences were to be turned over to Iraq's government).

Answer 5

Great idea. Let's use this logic on other things as well.

If the police can't catch a bank robber within two days, the case is closed.

If a fire can't be brought under control in an hour, we send them back to the station and let the fire burn itself out.

If a flight is delayed beyond its departure time, the flight is cancelled and the passengers have to go buy tickets on another flight.

Surgeons get a timetable for operations. If they can't get it done within the allowed timeframe, they have to redeploy to another patient.

If you can't finish dinner and dessert in an hour, the restaurant can throw you out into the street.

No more extra innings or overtime in professional sports. If it's a tie at the end of regulation play, both teams lose.

If DMV can't get to you within one hour, you have to walk.

If a hurricane forms in the Carribean, but can't make landfall within a week, it is cancelled. (We may need to exact some very strict penalties on meteorologists to enforce this one.)

No one over 19 can be admitted to college. If they can't get there by then, we can't wait for them forever.

People should be expected to die by the time they are 90 years old. Anyone living past that date is no longer permitted to die. Undertakers can't be kept waiting.

Answer 6

That isn't fair or good for the country. We really need to train those people, especially in counterterrorism strategies, if they can defeat the terrorists then morale will go up and the army will grow and we can leave. We really need to push those people to get an army together and not just rely on ours if the country is going to succeed.

Answer 7

tell the terrorists we're going to afganistan, they can meet us there!

we should have left iraq the week after the statue came down

but no bush had to find his ficticious WMD's and catch his dad's screwup, Saddam

still a year later when we finnally caught him, why didnt we leave then? the insurgency was nothing at that point

oh yea oil, we will leave when the oil "sharing" deal is signed

Answer 8

It is only to placate the un-informed, closed minded little people who only think about them self's. They only know what the News Media tells them and we all know that the News Media has it's own agenda, MONEY!

Vet-USAF

This an answer for you're opening question, There is no good reason for a time table!