Do you think it is time to set a timetable for returning our troops from Iraq?

We can set goals and we are already doing that but we should not set any firm dates for troop withdrawal.........

That is what we did in Nam and millions of Vietnamese and Cambodians lost their lives in the killing fielRAB because we cut and run and deserted them........

A lot of liberals don't agree with us being in Iraq but we are there and we need to finish the job we started..........
 
I agree. I don't agree with us being in Iraq but now that we shattered their security, we have to fix it again. We can't leave without cleaning everything up. That's like saving an animal in the wooRAB from a predator and then just setting it free in the middle of New York City. We have to return it to a state where it can function on its own.
 
Or we could make an estimate, say 2 years, and then in 2 years if we're still having problems, we would need to evaluate what we were doing wrong and what we could do better. That would combine the accountability with not leaving a torn up country behind.
 
You forgot Clinton's Bosnia and Haiti....We were going to be there for a year.....

Setting a withdrawal date is the worse possible answer.......Like Truthsayer said that is exactly what the Terroirsts would want........
 
Not really. A estimate is useless unless there is background planning to make it happen. Considering how horribly this adminstration plans anything I don't think estimates will do anything useful.
 
I agree but at least when these estimates don't happen, the public will realize the failure of the administration to actually restore peace. The war is already losing support because at the beginning we weren't going to be there for more than a couple of months. I know someone who signed up for 18 months in the military 3 years ago, he's still there because of the loophole that they can keep people longer in times of war. This way recruiters tell people they only have to stay for 18 months and they get a free education, but then they end up staying for 5 years, this kind of stuff is the stuff that can and is losing the current administration trust to handle this war. Hopefully in the next election they don't elect someone who will handle this war the same way.
 
Good. It's about time that happens. But then again, the public is only now realizing our self created problem. It disturbs me that so many people are so ignorant in our times.



Hopefully we won't elect someone who used a event that was in no ways related to take out a regime he was gunning for years.
 
That's the problem with democracy, if people don't pay attention to the news, read the paper, and just make sure to know what's going on in the world, we end up with people electing a president who they'd like to have a beer with and who promises them tax cuts rather than one who can actually help make the country better. This is my one concern about democracy in Iraq, they don't even have TV's I don't think so how did they even know any of the candidates other than their religions?



Well I will vote then for the first time so I'm sure my vote will make a difference and elect a better president (of course I live in MD so no matter what a Democrat will be elected even if I vote for John Elway).
 
Fundemental advantage of democracy: every one's vote is equal.
Fundemental flaw of democracy: every one's vote is equal.

As for Iraq, does it bother you that the PM is funded by Iran? :wow:

We need to vote both parties out. They are the cancer of American politics.
 
You mean like Korea? Oh wait we are still there....
Is Israel a nice secure place safe from terrorism? The notion that Iraq will be without conflict will not occur in our life time.
 
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