Why don't we just send 150,000 more troops in order to fully subdue Iraq?

LadySable

It is not the desire of the US to subdue Iraq.

Isn't it a bit cold under that rock?

Nomo

Eventually we will. You heard it here first!

lvillejj

We don't want to leave our backdoor open for other worldly enemies. Otherwise we may be looking at a draft.

notmyrealname

stephen colbert thinks we should send 300,000,000. of course the gays aren't eligible, so they could just stay here and decorate.

Jan Stolz

Easy; we don't have that many.
To fight this war successfully, we have to either induce the draft; drop the big one, or just get the hell out.

Jason the juggernaught

$$ and not enough troops i have a freind who is one his 3rd tour of duty

brian L

Actually it would take in all reality 450,000 more and maybe it could be done. In any case where do we get 150,000 more troops we can't even get the paltry 25,000 the president wants except by holding troops being rotated out and including the replacements to temporarily inflate the numbers of troops. So what you want to do is simply not possible.

ellisd1950

150,000 is not enough, as i have been sayiung for quite some time, we need to send 500,000 troops to Iraq.
the fastest and safest way out of iraq is to get further in.

500,000 stops the insurgency
500,000 send a strong message to Iran and to Syria
500,000 will be a plus to the US economy

in order to send 500,000 to iraq, we need to start a new draft, not like the old one at all, but a required commitment from every individual, males and females for two years of service between the ages of 18 and 28. the only one that would be exempt would be Teachers and Firemen, and if you are exempt, you have to reamain a teacher or a fireman until you are 28.

two years of service is not much to ask for a lifetime in the United States.

you may ask how we will pay for this, and i ask you how can we not afford to do this..

Common Sense

Good idea...
Or we could just bomb it, Iran & Syria all three
back into the stone age...

As Real As It Gets

Are you insane?

America's police and military aren't even allowed to subdue Americans that break the law without two dozen civil rights attorneys suing the government for infringing upon people's rights.

Let's start by putting 150,000 soldiers to work in the US by removing and keeping out illegal immigrants, and move forward from there.

Dai

nahh

Mikie

just that many young boy's kilt. I'm leaning towards 3 new countries split up amongst the different factions and let them all have there own country. That way it will stop the insanity and killing. The way it's goin now is not a fight against the American troops that are deployed there, it is a fight amongst the different factions. The suicide bombers are driving in to private citzens in Irag and killing innocent people and they claim it's in the name of Ala. 3rd world countries, 3rd world thinking. They think killing their fellow man will give them a place in heaven, what ever their heaven is. The pooe innocent women, children, an husband's that are trying to go about living a normal life are kilt. You can't win a fight like that. It would reguire stopping all vehicel traffic. Now we can talk about the suicide bombers with explosive straped to their bodies. Theres nothing more that the bomber would like than to be searched at an American check point so he can explode hiself to kill these young american soldies, again, to have his place in heaven for fighting a Holy war. If someone can figure out a way to stop this, please come foward. You have open quite the forum and good luck and I hope you get some intellegent reply's. Mikie.

If you remember the old "Get Smart" shows, you would know Chao has a "Nude" bomb. We should pull our troops out and drop a couple of these. All Iraqis, stripped of clothing and weapons, should bring an end to the fighting....

alohafridayalex

because they would probably need to bring back the draft in order to do that, and i don't think anyone is truely in favor of the draft.

why don't we just bomb the crap out of it (it's not like the iraqis aren't already bombing themselves with car bombs, etc), then send the 20,000 troops to control the debris?

Rich S

Most probably a good idea. That ought to do the job. But then again the Dems wouldn't have much to ***** about then. They would be relegated to complaining about domestic issues and that is not nearly as exciting----not to mention a serious lack of face time on the tube.

And Sir, with all due respect, from where are you going to get an additional 150,000 men?

The U.S Armed Forces is stretched thin across the globe with a shrinking and inadequate suplly of reserve manpower.

Also, I find your idea of Iraq as a state...hypocritical. There is a host of problems...from find a space to put an additional star on the flag to...defending that lonely "state."

BEN

we cannot afford to overextend the army in Iraq. We already have 125,000 troops there and we cannot keep up that pace at this rate.

anoldmick

Tell y'what: you s h i t us a money tree and we'll consider it. No, better make that a whole bleedin' FOREST of money trees, given how abysmally the guv'ment has managed the billions and billions of dollars already allocated for the war in the sandbox! Billions of dollars, and nothing to show for it. And Bushdummy wants a "troop surge"????? Gimme a break!

timo_10

that's more than can get through the stupid congress. it's not a bad idea though. send some to get bin laden too.

skenk33

How about the answer is that you go and solve all our problems, chief!!!!!!!

cantcu

You are right out there! Just what we need, the state of Iraq!

bubbly262

Why doesn't our government quit spending money rebuilding it while they are destoying it?

Our government has spent over 3 BILLION rebuilding the POS.

Aegis of Freedom

Why don't you use a sledge hammer to kill a fly? The right tool for the right job. I don't know if 20,000 or 150,000 is right, but I'm not a military expert. We have to trust that our leaders know what they are doing. If not, then we remove them by voting for someone else. It's a brilliant system.

Average Human

sure... hope you are going to lead them in...

hondalos11

Thats a great idea, run it by that idiot in the white house!

dze

that is the rational action to support their stated goals ... they are lying as always about why we are there ...

arw1447

Why dont we send you. Are you George Bush?

kute_regina_gal

enough people have died becoz of Bushs stupid actions. why should more people suffer? we should send Bush there WITHOUT his secret service guys and see how he likes being shot at daily.

amadeus_denis

150,000 TROOPS? U WANT ALL OF THEM TO DIE?PLEASE THINK ABOUT THEIR LOVED ONES.

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