To me, it seems like the smartest (and easiet) political decision to make.
Think about it, if he pulled out of Iraq, and people stopped dying and terrorism didn't increase, he'd be considered a hero among men.
If he did pull out, and things got worse over there (i.e. civil war, increased terrorism etc.) he could always say he gave the democrat plan a try, which failed miserably and lay the blame at their feet.
It's the perfect win/win situation, so what gives? Was he too dumb to figure it out? Or is it possible he is staying for a reason aside from scoring political points?
2007-12-05 18:44:49 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
We should have never gotten into Iraq. That said, we can't leave now because if we leave, the entire region would grow unstable. Not just Iraq but all of the surrounding nations would grow unstable. A quick scenario is an Osama bin Laden like figure that becomes in charge of Iraq with a lot of oil wealth to back themselves up. Also, we do owe it to the Iraqi people to help rebuild their country after we came and helped wreck it. Saddam might have sucked, but at least they had electricity and no car bombings.
2007-12-05 19:30:49 · answer #1 · answered by Kenneth C 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
From what I've heard, he feels that he is responsible for creating the situation in Iraq (duh) and he is afraid of failure. He's using every resource in his arsenal to try to get Iraq back on track because he doesn't want his legacy to be a war that was essentially fought for nothing. The only way that he thinks he can create a steady government in Iraq is to fully extinguish any insurgency. Also I think at this point he's trying to stall so that he can dump the problem onto the next President.
I'm surprised that he hasn't asked the people of Iraq what they think he should do. It's their country and it's supposed to be a democracy, so we should try to find out some of the prevailing public opinions about the direction that Iraq should go in and some immediate steps that could be taken. If the course of action that we take is what the public wants, then why would insurgents fight it?
2007-12-05 19:10:10 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
by means of fact we've no innovations-blowing to be in a u . s . that did no longer even threaten us! Iraq became into extra good below Saddam Hussein! The racial, and non secular minorities have been honestly extra secure below Saddam! i'm no longer attempting to declare he became right into a stable guy in spite of the undeniable fact that that's real.. in factor of actuality after WW2 individuals theory they have been the even with the indisputable fact that-est issues around and theory that they had a innovations-blowing to invade any u . s . no count what in the event that they do in comparison to them! and if all and assorted brings up 9/11 the info are that there have been no Iraqis in any of those planes and our "reasonable" Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and Egypt had most of the persons.. Al Quaida is a lot bigger in Iraq now that we've invaded additionally ..
2016-10-10 09:18:44 · answer #3 · answered by furne 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
There is still money to be made by him and his cronies through depleting the national treasury and there is still $10-30 million of oil to be stolen from Iraq each day.
2007-12-05 22:45:56 · answer #4 · answered by ♥ Cassie ♥ 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
He couldn't, Elites are still making money. If he pulls out of Iraq and end aggressions, what would he do for the rest of his term??!!
Regards.
2007-12-05 19:14:14 · answer #5 · answered by iceman 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
In either scenario Bush would still be to blame for the deaths of over a million people, besides he is determined to remain in Iraq until conditions are conducive to the monopolization of its oil reserves by American corporations.
2007-12-05 18:53:15 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 6⤊ 2⤋
Permanent bases in Iraq, the plan was never to leave.
That is why there was no exit "strategery".
2007-12-05 18:51:01 · answer #7 · answered by Think 1st 7 · 3⤊ 3⤋
retreat because of been beaten in a war is NEVER the best option...!
clearly you have never been even in a street fight have you??
we would have looked like the biggest puss...in the world just like after Nam...."paper tigers" we were called after that, did you know???
plus ANY sign of weakness is used by our enemies, and all it does is encourage MORE violence against us!!
learn kid..learn!
2007-12-05 18:51:04 · answer #8 · answered by Krytox1a 6 · 2⤊ 4⤋
hes an idiot he would stay their till 2100 if he could
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2007-12-05 18:56:14 · answer #9 · answered by Antoni 7 · 3⤊ 2⤋
His father did and it cost hundreds of thousands of lives.
2007-12-05 18:48:09 · answer #10 · answered by bravozulu 7 · 0⤊ 5⤋