What is your definition of a US failure in Iraq?

Question

Mine is what we see going on there today. What is yours?

Of course, irrational posters will equate this to a slander against the troops. These same irrational people won't admit that the troops are accomplishing their assignments. It is the political assigment itself that is the recipe for failure.

- Interesting.

With a few exceptions, war mongers are unable to define failure in Iraq. Is this why they cannot recognize it if they were to see it?
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Answer 1

Liberal Victory here at home... which equals defeat and retreat...

And it is not the conservatives who don't think the troops are accomplishing their tasks. WE KNOW THEY ARE... and we know they will be successful.... it is the liberals that won't admit the troops are making an impact of any kind unless it is negative.... How do you even begin to spin that?

Answer 2

What IS the definition of Victory?
We took out Saddam, and we found NO WMD. Whats next? should we kill all the Sunnis to appease the Shiites or vice versa to end the civil war. Power sharing will not work.
My gut feeling is Iran is arming the Shiites, because they are shiites, while the Saudis are arming the Sunnis, because they are sunnis, and the US is caught in the middle over two tribes who want to blow each other up.

I say let them take charge of their own destiny.

Our policy now is like a deer stuck in the headlights. Should we withdraw or should we stay? I say we cut our losses, let the UN take over.
Since day 1 we took Iraq, we have been cut-and-running meaning planning to withdraw, who in the right mind would think we are going to stay there for 200 years.

Answer 3

Failure happened before a single US troop set foot in Iraq. It began when Bush used false premises to start an illegal war against a sovereign nation. Iraq posed no threat to the US.
No Navy.
No Air Force.
No WMDs.
No connection to the events of 911.
A Republican (sic) army that couldn't defend the nation from an announced invasion.

Failure is Bush and his moronic administration that tried to sell a lie and the moronic bought it.
This has ZERO implications on our troops who are only doing as ordered.

Answer 4

Failure in Iraq would be our troops being decimated and driven from the country. Short of that the only way we can lose is to quit.

Answer 5

My definition of a US failure in Iraq would be ANYTHING other then the total defeat of our enemy....which would have already happened if the ones who attack this president and the war and our troops had stood behind or president from the beginning....if our so called friends overseas had stood behind the only country they could ever count on to help them out if they were attacked would have stood behind us from the beginning.....but now we have leaders in the congress of the United States....UNITED STATES SENATORS making comments such as "the war is lost".....our enemy see our soft underbelly....they are encouraged by such words....those who SAY such words are aiding and encouraging our enemy's and are traitors in my eyes..............is that the answer you were looking for chi guy??

Answer 6

Being involved in a Civil War that we helped cause by not thinking out our actions before getting involved. (Though in reality the situation now was accurately predicted by the CIA and by Dick Cheney)

Being stuck in a war that by its nature will not end.

Trying to end a legitimate battle strategy used extensively in history by the smaller force rather than actually trying to accomplish anything.

Being forced to prop up an impotent govt that is not supported by the people.

Having to protect to same group that we went over there to throw out of power because our short sightedness left them open for persecution.

Giving weapons to a former enemy so that they can help us fight our former ally, then later turn the weapons on us again.

Ignoring countries that are doing things that need to be stopped (ie. Pakistan was said by the CIA to be hiding Bin Laden on more than one occasion).

Declaring a success then fighting for years in the aftermath of the original war.

Misusing our military at great risk in an effort to make it appear things are going better than they are (ie. Marine Recon is not designed for the type of mission they did in taking Baghdad, reserve troops are not prepared for fighting and early on were frequently ill equipped as well as ill trained).

Watching as an entire country gets segregated because it seems to be the only way to stop the violence.

Answer 7

Unless the Libs & The Press start challenging the Iraqi populace to start taking their country serious, rather than being a 5th column for Al Queda, you get a civil war. You tell the populace they are of no value they get pissed at you even if part of your country is attempting to empower them.

They Iraqi populace investing in their area.

Answer 8

US failure in Iraq ?

Going there in the first place !!

Ignoring the history of the religious battle between the
Sunnis/Shiites that has gone on and will go on forever!

Answer 9

The fact that Zarkawi and Al-Sadr became new enemies after Sadamm was captured.

The fact that we have more enemies than friends, and that we lost all world sympathy after 9/11.

Or the biggest failure is not the war or even the situation now, but the countless lies behind it promoted by our leaders in which for a fact we have this situation now.

Answer 10

Its when hypocritical people here in America believe that an Iraqi life (or from wherever) is less precious then an American. I'm American, I love my country... but I also see an Iraqi and view them as a human being.

So if you look past the liberal media... and see how many schools we've started, roads we've paved... fire stations we've created. People may get a better idea of what we're trying to do for the world.

Just my opinion.

Answer 11

Democrat definition = Invading.
Republican definition = Surrender.

And no, it's not slander. Just naivety. I don't mean to insult. That simply the most accurate definition I can give. You really don't understand what's at stake and what's involved.