Send more troops? A totally idiotic idea.

[Philosoraptor]

I don't care if we sent ALL our troops, it won't stop the madness in Iraq. I disagreed with it when Kerry suggested it, I disagree when mc cain says it. Gradual pullout? Fuck that, we need an IMMEDIATE pull out, ALL home by Christmas. Sending 100,000 more troops, (the magic number) will help nothing. Nothing.

Why does everyone act like sending more troops will solve anything? Bring them home now. Continuing this madness in any capacity is just more madness. It's over over there, let's stop forcing our soldiers to die over there when they can just live out their lives over here.

[magellan]

1. Did it help during Vietnam?

Didn't it just amount to more meat for the grinder?

BRING THEM HOME NOW, GODDAMIT!!

[BootinUp]

2. there are currently no more brigades

available to send.

What they are talking about is repositioning some troops into Bahgdad.

[ClintonTyree]

3. Then Bush can say........

he did everything in his power to "help" the Iraqis. Sending in hundreds of thousands of more Troops is the only thing they haven't tried. Right now there is a group of neo-cons who believe Bush should have sent in mega-troops to begin with, that Bush didn't listen to the Generals and tried to do it on the "cheap". If Bush commits 100,000 more troops then he can say, "I flooded Iraq with Troops and we still got our asses kicked". Then he'll "cut and run" and he can justify it in his mind because he "did everything I could do".
Mind games. Throwing good money after bad. Covering his ass for the sake of his precious "legacy". He's trying to gloss over all of his fuck-ups because he knows "cut and run" is the only solution and after the mid-term elections he's going to do exactly what he's been accusing Democrats of suggesting (some of them, anyway). But they'll rename it.......it won't be "cut and run", it will be "making Iraqis take control of their destiny" or "making the fledgling Democracy leave the nest" or some such horse-shit. A rose by any other name.........

[BootinUp]

4. Watch this clip

http://www.crooksandliars.com/2006/10/20/whats-st-mccains-iraq-war-plan-again/

[dbt]

5. A hundred thousand wouldn't do it.

Half a million troops, minimum, would need to be committed, with ALL necessary armor and materiel. Iraq's borders would have to be sealed and the entire country laid out in grids of varying sizes, depending on population density. Then, the population would have to be disarmed and secured, grid by grid. And all this would just be for openers.

The President Of The United States Of America must GO to Iraq and stand up in its parliament and APOLOGIZE to the people of Iraq for the devastation wrought upon them based on LIES and GREED. Halliburton and every other motherfucker that's made dime one off this bloody business must be forced to give all profits BACK to the people of Iraq for use in rebuilding their country. Rebuilding contracts must be awarded to firms that "live" and do business in the Iraq region.

And then, we're going to have to find money for REPARATIONS.

Meanwhile, Nancy Pelosi doesn't want to hear about impeaching the Sneering Reptile who led us into this. There's some more idiocy.

:rant:
dbt
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[Philosoraptor]

6. escalation, like st. nixon before him