you can say whatever you want...but if you have a enemy then you should use overpowering force. We didnt and it came back to bite us as we all expected the people of Iraq to rise up and joyfully take over and throw rose pedals at us and welcoming us as liberators aka france/ww2. Someone would have t be in REAL denail to see that it hasnt and wont happen that way and that looking back we should have just bombed Saddam into oblivion and screw what the rest of the world thought.
We did use "overpowering force" to defeat Saddam and his military. The idea that we could/should carpetbomb Iraq into the stone age is nonsense. We were liberators and used a strategy to deal with the postwar period to include a stable, democratically elected government. Our biggest mistake, using 20/20 hindsight, was not taking out the militias. But you can't unring a bell. You need to deal with the reality on the ground now. FYI: We were welcomed by many Iraqis as liberators. Also, the Iraqi government wants us to stay.
Someone would have t be in REAL denail to see that it hasnt and wont happen that way and that looking back we should have just bombed Saddam into oblivion and screw what the rest of the world thought.
You don't bomb one man or his regime into oblivion. There are million Iraqis to deal with. We had to aid the Japanese and Germans to get back on their feet after a devastating war that destroyed their countries' infrastructure and political system. I think we are winning in Iraq and should continue to support the current government, which has been in power about 6 months. We need patience and resolve to achieve long term objectives, i.e., a stable, democratic Iraq, which will not be a threat to its neighbors or a sancturary for terrorists.
You obviously think there is no islamic terrorist problem whatsoever. Must be nice to live in your world.
I agree on the use of overwhelming force. Bush is like his father in that he believes in the utter fallacy of limited war.
However you are wrong about the Iraqi people.
The "insurgency" is only that if the people fighting are indigenous to the country where the fighting is taking place. The OVERWHELMING MAJORITY of those fighting our guys come from other countries... and that makes them mercinaries.
Iraq was a democracy for a long time. They are VERY welcoming of their newly-regained freedom.