“Wes Clark: McCain As Dangerous As Bush”
I disagree. Bush hasn’t threatened to keep our troops in Iraq for 100 years.
So DU pest what are you doing here ?
You could care less about our troops .
The battle for Okinawa ended in June 1945.
In July, 1945, 8th Air Force was given responsibility for flying combat missions out of what was to become Kadena Air Base. We're still there.
How many years might that be?
Kadena is one of the most important air bases we have in the Asia. Any presence in Iraq would likely be there for similar strategic and tactical reasons.
Considering the region's historical volatility, 100 years might be rather a conservative guess.
Welcome to FreeRepublic.
Let's pull our troops out of Germany before we discuss Iraq.
The "Bush Doctrine", due to the incompetence of the ability of the administration to communicate the plan properly was never explained largely to the public. The rest of the public was simply too stupid and limited to understand what was taking place. It consisted of a complete political overhaul of archaic Middle East societies.
That takes time and investment. The results should have been a series of strong US guided republics that would have constitutionally guided governments in place guaranteeing certain rights and freedoms for their peoples. The concept of the freedom they would have enjoyed would have affected the populaces of nearby nations, causing a domino affect toppling nearby dictator-states and muslim tyranny in the area.
However Bush was too stupid to purge the rats that infested both the state department and high level agencies in our own nation. They undermined him at every step. The democrats in the house and senate fought day and night in opposition to every move the administration made.
They basically hamstrung the effort, resulting in the mess we saw over the last four years outside of the surge, which has been successful, but years too late to make a major impact outside of Iraq.
However History will remember the scope and vision of President Bush's efforts in the Middle East. Iraq may yet be salvaged, however I'm doubtful with the current lot of presidential candidates.
And if a rat does win the White House, you can bet Iraq will begin circling the commode by December. The attacks on our own soil may not wait for the inauguration.
Why do you get worked up about the troops being in Iraq for years? We are still in Germany, Japan, and Korea. We have not been at war with them but we keep large military bases there. Most of those countries would do anything to keep us there.
I’m not a military expert but I believe we will be in Iraq for years to come for strategic reasons. We need a presence there in order to fight terrorism. Maybe Saddam didn’t have WMD’s (personally I believe he did and moved them) but we know that Iran is in the process of obtaining nukes, we know that Pakistan already has em. Once Iraq settles down it will be just like being stationed in Germany.
My brother is over there in Bagdad, they have Burger King, Cinnabun, KFC, and even a coffee shop similar to Starbucks. I believe my brother and others that have been there when they say, if we leave now it will be a blood bath like we have never seen before.