Bush's New Strategy

[eilute]

Bush's new strategy is to send an additional 20,000 troops to Iraq and bring our troop levels up to half of what they were when we invaded. Rather than clear an area of insurgents and then leave, we are going to clear an area and then stay. The Iraqi people will then stand up and embraces Bush's vision of a western-like culture erupting all over the middle east. If he want's Islamic democracies, he's got Turkey, Lebanon, and Indonesia. If he wants another, he can and should be working on Afghanistan.

How long will we have to stay? How can we stabilize Iraq if we haven't done so in Afghanistan? If this is the new strategy, I don't think our troops will be coming home in the next 15 years. I'm tired of this Elmer Fudd war strategy.

 

[MAW1082]

I don't think you understand what the point of the U.S. presence in Iraq is. The point is to 'rally the world around America's vision of democracy and spread that vision through the use of force.'

This is the vision of the Project For a New American Century. This is not meant to be a short war. This is meant to be a war that changes civilization as we know it. The idealogues in the Bush admin (Rove, Cheney, Rumsfeld, Wolfowitz, etc) all believe that is essential for the US to engage the enemy in the middle east in order to achieve US hegemony. Look this stuff up for yourself. Project For a New American Century.

 

[eilute]

This administration has done nothing but alienate the U.S. from the rest of the world. PNAC will not achieve this goal, short of using nuclear terrorism.

 

[DealMonkey]

"Wabbit season!"

 

[MAW1082]

It's not about what the rest of the world thinks. It is about forcing the will of the PNAC upon whoever is in the way. That is what the PNAC stands for. Hegemony through force. The aim of the PNAC is US hegemony and obviously, other nations will not be very receptive to that aim. The people who 'were' in the PNAC understand that this will not be a smooth transition. It will be the most difficult of all struggles. They have not given up, they are just laying low. They will keep trying to achieve their goal, more secretly than ever.

 

[2Xtreme21]

His new strategy is the same as his old strategy: How can I best exploit American lives for political gain?

In this case, Neocons will have something to bash the Dems for not supporting in 08. I mean, in that respect, the Bush Admin consists of geniuses-- twisted geniuses who should all be taken to the secret prisons they send people to.

 

[Termagant]

Originally posted by: 2Xtreme21
His new strategy is the same as his old strategy: How can I best exploit American lives for political gain?

In this case, Neocons will have something to bash the Dems for not supporting in 08. I mean, in that respect, the Bush Admin consists of geniuses-- twisted geniuses who should all be taken to the secret prisons they send people to.

The Democratic Majority criticizing Bush and now threatening to cut funding to force a pullout could shape up perfectly for the Republicans in 08. All blame will be placed at the Dems' feet, we could have won in Iraq if we had just stayed a few more months!!!

 

[Pens1566]

Be vewwwy vewwwy quiet ...... I'm hunting wabbits.

 

[trenchfoot]

Originally posted by: Pens1566
Be vewwwy vewwwy quiet ...... I'm hunting wabbits.

i bet you're hunting them wid woks, to wack does widdle wascowwey wabbits wid.