If it were left up to you how would you deal with the Iaq War?

Question

Try to elaborate on your answer just dont say pull out or stay the course.

Iraq War- My bad

Answer 1

Well the easy thing to say is cut and run. But it is not the right thing to do. So I would say stay the course and get the mission accomplished then bring our troops home. Some will say we should not be their that its for oil. Well I have to say Hind site is 20/20 and it to late for that.

As for the oil thing...Don't you think we had enough oil before the war stated? If we wanted more oil that bad we could have just gone over the border and taken Mexico and Venezuela and had more than enough oil! why would we go all the way around the world for it. Grow up and com up with something better than that folks...

Answer 2

Dealing with the Iraq War in what capacity?
As "President" I wouldn't want to inherit that mess. Sure, I'd want to get our troops home, but then I'd have to consider what was going to inevitably happen once we're out of that country. I have to be honest here. I think we have no other choice at this point, but to remain in that country. Pulling out would be a disaster. It's certainly an option, but probably not the best one, and sending more troops over is only a temporary fix in my opinion. The best thing that could happen would be that the Iraqi people step up to the plate.
I think we're going to be there for a long, long time. It's not the best scenario, but it's the hand we've been dealt. I really don't see any other way out short of a complete withdraw, and that's not going to happen no matter who gets elected.

Answer 3

If I were President I would have:

1. Seized any companies assets that had connections to terrorism.

2. Decrease our dependence on oil by sending funding to the research of infinite energy means (using renewable resources for energy)

3. Sending troops to Saudi Arabia and Afghanastain.

4. Sending weapons and advisors to Iraq to train the insurgenecy against Saddam.

Answer 4

If it were up to me? With no necessity to pander to the corporate elite for campaign funds?

Negotiate with the Resistance forces so that they have a new government ready to get in place for when the U.S. leaves.

Make a public apology to the Iraqi people for the death and destruction we have visited on them for the benefit of a few companies and U.S. desires for empire.

Carry out a corporate "death penalty" against Blackwater, Halliburton and any other corporation that has gotten more than a fifth of their 2002-2007 profits from the war - dissolve the companies and sell off their assets. The money would be split between rebuilding projects, reparations to Iraqis whose family members have died, and U.S. veterans and their families.

Put Bush, the leading Democrats, every military officer above the rank of colonel, and the heads of those corporations on trial for war crimes. It strikes me as a good punishment for them to empty bedpans in Veterans Administration hospitals, or to do pick-and-shovel work for rebuilding Iraq (for those the trial body doesn't decide to hang).

Pull all troops back to the airports, and begin round-the-clock flights out.

Answer 5

remove and audit blackwater. Use mainly special forces, and espionage to gather intel about combatants. Use conventional forces to build make-shift infrastructure. Start a huge construction/reconstruction campaign, to restore faith and utilities for Iraqis. That would mean we less oil for us, but that's the point. Work with locals to construct a few mosques. And recover the Iraqi economy so that they are self sustaining. then pull out gradually over 1 year...until then keeping other countries out of the border by using satellite/infrared survailance and instant action sorties with Air to ground strikes on any invaders until Iraq has an army of its own again...If that means splitting it up into 3 provinces or even different countries, so be it.

Answer 6

I would let Iraqis deal with their own war. What business is it of the USA. Why is the USA there in the first place. The tension in Iraq would be reduced a lot if the most unwelcome part of it, the USA, were to leave, go back to their own country and mind their own business.

Answer 7

I would issue a timeline for the insurgencies to get their stuff together and make their new government work or all bets are off!

Answer 8

Put the entire Bush regime on trail for war crimes to restore international respect, give Iraq 6 months notice that we are leaving.

The criminals in the White will be stopped only by a mass movement of, for, and by the people, that demand justice be done.

Initiating a war of aggression. John Pilger in his April 11, 2003 article published in countercurrents.org entitled, "Crime Against Humanity" reminds us that,

"To initiate a war of aggression," said the judges in the Nuremberg trial of the Nazi leadership, "is not only an international crime; it is the supreme international crime differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole." In stating this guiding principle of international law, the judges specifically rejected German arguments of the "necessity" for pre-emptive attacks against other countries.

Answer 9

I'd leave the troops there as long as they were needed. In fact I would let it be known that we aren't ever going away. I would place the troops along the border with Iran. Peace would come and we could then pull out most of the troops. The insurgents are continuing their terror acts only because it works so well on weak politicians and liberals. Funny how the peace nicks are actually getting more of our military and innocent people killed with their agenda.

Answer 10

leave and let the idependant nations of the world sort it out not oil grabbers

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