Posted on 11/09/2006 9:01:04 AM PST by jmc1969
President George W. Bush, signaling a more conciliatory approach after suffering electoral losses this week, said on Thursday he was "open to any idea or suggestion" on the Iraq war.
The incoming Democratic-controlled Congress is expected to exert more pressure on Bush for a course correction in Iraq amid rising U.S. casualties and violence.
"I'm open to any idea or suggestion that will help us achieve our goals of defeating the terrorists and ensuring that Iraq's democratic government succeeds," Bush said in a Rose Garden appearance with members of his Cabinet.
(Excerpt) Read more at today.reuters.com ...
fight it like a war and not a police action
Great! Here's what you need to do, Mr.President:
1. Arm every last Kurd. This not only scares the bejesus out of every last Islamic "dead-ender" it also scares the shi'ite out of the Turks, Iranians, Syrians, Saudis and a bunch of other goat-herding, pseudo-nation states. Perhaps when faced by the possibility of a Kurdish nation, armed to the teeth, and with warm, fuzzy feelings for Americans, the rest of the Arab world will step up to the plate and help out, or restrain their own reactionary Islamonazis.
2. Ship said Kurds to the Sunni Triangle with sufficient firepower to return the entire country to it's pristine, desert state ujntil this crap stops...right now.
3. Scorched earth, if compliance with #2 is not forthcoming.
4. Ensure the "Iraqi people" (an artificial construct) who are holding up the Freedom Express, are reduced to collecting rainwater and hunting insects in order to ensure a minimum level of survival.
5. Disband what passes for an "Iraqi government". It does not deserve continued existance, since it is so willing to compromise with the lements within Iraqi society bent upon it's destruction. After the Kurds apply an M-16 enema to the rest of Iraq, new elections can be held.
6. Any system which shows any promise of offering a viable aleternative to liberal, free-market democracy must be ruthlessly crushed as soon as it rears it's ugly head.
7. Repeat as necessary until Iraqis finally surrender to the inevitable through the combination of starvation, rampant disease and broken wills, and the required elements for the building of a stable democracy (loss of faith in Islam, loss of loyalty to sect or tribe, obvious superiority of the Western System) present themselves.
Hope this helps.
Here's a suggestion.....
Stop running a "compassionate" war and let's win this thing. Find a Patton and finish the job.....
Real key thing here of why we're in IRAQ. (IMHO only, of course)
1. Create the battlespace of our choosing to engage the terrorists that are in hiding world-wide.
2. This place must be of value to the enemy where they will come from all over the world out their rat-holes and be willing to fight and die for it.
3. Keep them engaged for as long as they are a threat to NYC, San Diego, DC, ETC. (Fight and die over there, not here taking our women and children with them)
Let's see what the Demos have to say about that.
Bush has always said he's open for suggestions. The Dems have never had any that would help us win. The only plan they have is to demean the troops and this country with a "cut & run" policy.
At first all the Iraqis were our enemies, though the shi'ites were being oppressed and just needed a `nudge' to overthrow the baathist sunnis . . .
Now we're fighting shi'ites and sunnis of all stripes.
Suggestions . . . how about standing-off and bombing the living s*** out of them, like it's a real war, as we did in Germany, Japan and Afghanistan?
Then we can give them a bunch of money and we'll all be friends!
(I'd like to be paid now.)
Worth repeating.
Exactly!
Here's one: "Win!"
"I say we take off, nuke the site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure..."
Seriously. WTF are we waiting for? We fire bombed Dresden. We nuked Hiroshima. Why is Sadr City still standing? Reduce the entire Sunni triangle to rubble.
Clausewitz: "Kind-hearted people might of course think there was some ingenious way to disarm or defeat an enemy without too much bloodshed, and might imagine this is the true goal of the art of war. Pleasant as it sounds, it is a fallacy that must be exposed: war is such a dangerous business that the mistakes which come from kindness are the very worst. The maximum use of force is in no way incompatible with the simultaneous use of the intellect."
[PS I'm just sore `cause I didn't get offered the job . . . ]
Why now?
Here's a suggestion for GWB: Kill Mookie al Murdering Sadr, Iran's puppet, without delay, and arrest or kill every member of his Mahdi militia caught roaming the streets with weapons or bullying the Iraqi population. Those people are a constant plague on Iraq and the Coalition troops.
I hope that's the case. We've "misunderestimated" him before. We'll see.
I think Mr Webb has a suggestion.
Jihadi's don't care if they die. In fact, some welcome the chance to take some of us with them.
Leave them no rock to hide under. No safe haven in which to hide that is "off limits". Undermine their religion and devestate their beliefs.
Coddling the enemy will just get more of us killed.
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