Commentary: Bush must act now on Iraq report

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I would begin to send a few combat troops home immediately as a message and embed at least a platoon with every Iraqi battalion, perhaps more. I would make our mission simply to train the Iraqi troops, not combat. I would participate in combat only with the Iraqis -- not on our own -- with some exceptions for Special Forces targeting key "wanted" figures.


You are an idiot.

The iraqi troops are infiltrated to a fair thee well with Sunni's and Shiites who hate each other. The cops stop random people on the street and demand bribes, and soldiers are regularily robbed of their paychecks, when they're not setting up false check points and robbing whoever comes by.

These are the people you want to turn the country over to TODAy ? As in tommorow morning ?


I would not take on Muqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army, nor Abdul Aziz Hakim's Badr Brigades, but insist that the Iraqi government do so in the political arena and make reconciliation with the Sunnis the priority


Translation : You would stop attacking the terroists with american troops, who always win , and start attacking them with ill trained ill equipped iraqi militia , who always lose. Ooohhh..bright idea there ! That one rings my bell real good !


I would withdraw combat forces slowly over time to Kuwait and the Kurdish area, but begin some immediately.


Dont forget the part where you put ear plugs in your ears to silence the noise of every terroist in the middle east declaring victory over the US infidel.


I would construct the regional group as suggested by the Iraq Study Group and talk to Syria and Iran without pre-conditions while bringing in Jordan, the Gulf oil states, Egypt and Turkey.


Translation : You would talk to a bunch of middle east nations with a long LOOONG track record of being talked to to death and nothing every being accomplished, and probably continue to accomplish nothing.


I would work tirelessly to find a solution to the Iranian nuclear programs -- the "Sword of Damocles" hanging over the region.


Translation : I have no idea what to do about Iran ...let me think about it a while ....


would reinvigorate our diplomacy, a total reversal, directing our State Department to immediately begin talks with all our enemies, as well as our friends, and demand that wherever possible we seek cooperation and alliances rather than engage in unilateral action.


We should umm...talk...yes..talk . I'd like to say talk more, but mostly we've been just talking at the moment to begin with anyways....we'll keep on talking anyway.


Here's why I would do this: We are not winning this war in Iraq and have no possibility of doing so.


You ARE winning the war. Idiot. When the terrorist kill 10 civilians and declare it a victory , and you kill 20 SOLDIERS the next day, and spend all your time mourning that one american died ... well.. you're an idiot. You're a winning idiot , but you're still an idiot.


Though some do not believe it, we went to war because we thought Saddam had weapons of mass destruction


You went to war because the middle east is one big nation that hates you, and the responsibility for 9/11 lies with all of them, not just the afghanistani's.

You invaded afghanistan because they attacked you. The middle east countered by sending terrorists (unsuccessfully) at america to boot you out of Afghanistan , in effect declaring themselves to have the right to attack you anytime they pleased and you to not have the right to even basic self defence.


Our diplomacy has been a disaster. Despite being viciously attacked on 9/11, we are diplomatically isolated, the world's laughing stock and are blamed for everyone's ills.


You're diplomacy has been a disaster from day one. You have half wits demanding countries like India open their borders to tobbaco sales , and using state department people to do it in the obvious name of profit of certain american corperations. Pulling out of iraq isn't going to stop the laughing , but maybe seperating big business and official government offices will.


We need a new course in every dimension. We need to start talking directly and continually to our enemies without pre-conditions: Iran, Syria, North Korea and many others; even the disgusting and vile must be engaged.


You keep saying "we need to start talking.." as if the US hasn't been talking to anyone. From what I read on CNN , they havn't stopped talking to anyone , not even Iran , not even for a moment. Oh they might lack an official ambassadore or two if some nation like Iran ticked them off, but there's always someone to send messages to and the US gets them.


This commission report will not solve the problems in Iraq. It is not a plan. It is imperfect, even vastly flawed and overly simplistic


You're backing a plan you know won't work ? Your idiocy is aproaching epic levels.

Let me tell you something.

If america leaves iraq, it will fall to the Islamics.
They will then attack America itself (they're already
trying ) , and instead of reading in the news once
every few days how a single or maybe two american
soldiers died, you'll be reading about how 20 or 30
american civilians died in a terrorist attack , every day.

The Islamics want you dead. They want all us westerners dead. You can keep the war over there and let them continue to piss off and kill their own civilians , or you can let it come here , and let them start killing western civilians.

There isn't a third option.