Have any of you anti-war types changed your mind now that the surge is working?

Question

Have any of you anti-war types changed your mind now that the surge is working?

Answer 1

Remember all the benchmarks Bush talked about at the beginning of the surge? Odd we don't hear about them now, eh? You know why...because none of them have been met. There has been a minor drop in violence because the Sadr Army declared a cease fire...and we started paying and arming the Sunni insurgents who we were fighting before the  surge. (so much for not negotiating with terrorists, now we are paying guys who less than a year ago were killing Americans.)

In every other respect Iraq is the poster child for  a failed state. The only thing the "surge" did was get Iraq off the media and buy time for Bush to pawn off the mess he made onto the next administration. Which was all the surge was designed to do anyhow, Iraq is possibly the most badly botched occupation in history and our continued presence there is just making things worse.

Any of you pro-war types ever going to take responsibility for the two trillion plus dollar, hundreds of thousands dead, 4 million displaced, worst humanitarian disaster in the middle east since 1948 catastrophe that your glorious "war" turned into?

I didn't think so.

Answer 2

No. The surge isn't working. Bush said that. Little to nothing Bush says is true. For God's sake, he says that our economy is not experiencing stagflation.

Yes it is.

It's costing us money, lives, it's a waste, I think we need a President who will focus on rebuilding our country, not destroying or messing with another right now.

I mean, I'm 15 and know this, it's not rocket science

Answer 3

Not at all. This has been going on for nearly five years with no end in sight. How do you "win" another country's civil war? it didn't work in Korea or Vietnam and it won't work now.

Answer 4

I have yet to hear we are leaving Iraq or Afghanistan .

Only this announcement would indicate to me that  we were successful in our invasions. Other than that surge is propaganda to keep you paying those taxes and sending our children over to die.

Answer 5

No. Afghanistan was justified, Iraq was not. Progress? Ha.

Answer 6

Nope, it was still an unnecessary war. Despite what a lot of uninformed people may think, iraq had absolutely nothing to do with the events that unfolded on 9/11. Sadaam was a terrible dictator who terrorized his people but there are much worse ones in Dafur and other parts of Africa and do we help those people, no, there is no profit in it. Iraq had oil and that is the reason we invaded. It all came down to the money. Why the heck should we pat Bush on the back for seeing any kind of improvement in Iraq, he's the one that caused the mess there in the first place.