Yesterday, Iraq's parliament began a month-long vacation. U.S. troops are dying. President Bush's nominee to be top military adviser said today the United States will be in Iraq for "years not months". And a Pentagon official said the war was costing even more than expected.
Regardless of your stand on the Iraq invasion and the recent so-called “troop surge”, at THIS point in time, do you feel as if we’re wasting our people and resources over there?
Debra H2007-07-31T14:37:11Z
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How many vacations have our over worked troops had. Oh yeah.. probably none.. coming home in a body bag is not a vacation. Someone should tell the slacker on the ranch. in Crawford!
I don't think it's necessarily a bad thing that the legislature is taking a month off. They aren't getting anywhere on things like how to share oil revenues, anyway. A top-down approach doesn't look promising. Bottom-up improvements are more likely to be effective, and that's happening in a lot of places. I'm also not that incensed about many of the "war costs," as with mine-resistant vehicles. That example and a lot more are simply corrections to the mistakes the military made in downsizing in inappropriate ways at the end of the Cold War, so they're having to buy things now that they should have bought during the elder Bush's administration, or Clinton's. Of course lives are being wasted, as with every conflict in history, but it's nothing compared to the future. Probably the riskiest and most difficult maneuver in land warfare is a fighting withdrawal, so my real fear is for what happens next year.
How many vacations has Bush taken since the war started? Why shouldn't the Iraqis get a break? If we insist on taking over their country until Dubya feels like leaving, they should get some time off from fixing Bush's mess. And of course we're wasting our resources and American lives are being lost every day -- but that's not the Iraqi's fault, it's Bush's.
Absolutely! If the Iraqi government had come even close to reaching any of their goals, maybe not so much, but as it stands now it appears that our troops our enduring the heat, the hardships and the deadly conditions for no reason other than they are there! Is Iraq paying for them to be there? NO! Is Iraq reimbursing us? NO! Is Iraq maintaining the rebuilding we have done at our expense? NO! So much for showing any kind of appreciation for our efforts on their behalf.
I don't know why our "illustrious leader" condones the Iraqi governing body's behavior. But that's just a small part of his behavior that I don't understand. The American people need to start making some demands of their own and in no uncertain terms!
I have always thought that as Iraq had nothing to do with terrorist or 9/11!
The minimum date for troop withdrawal is 2010, which means another almost 3 years of wasted life, and our money for corporate welfare!
The plan is to leave a "residual" force to protect our "assets"! I wonder what our assets in Iraq are? It certainly isn't IED's!
I never believed Bush anyway as he could produce no proof of anything, and according to Tenet he's a liar as his assertions is NOT what the CIA was telling him! He also put out a document that was forged, that he knew was forged before he did it!
Bush should face a firing squad! After he gets his Constitutional rights of course!