Posted on 01/05/2007 4:29:39 PM PST by MHT
How Do Freepers Feel About A Troop Surge? Yes or No? If Yes, How Many?
Whatever The United States Armed Forces need to meet the objective, as decided by the men and women in the field.
Only if we do it like Patton would. Fight to win.
We need to let the troops who are there FIGHT THE WAR.
Get out of the way, Maliki. You know as well as anybody that your Iran-funded Mahdi Army buddies are the biggest problem in Iraq today. Let our troops go after them and stop obstructing the path to peace.
The Dems are going to defund the war...there will be no surge.
Yes, and only one. I agree, send Patton.
As many as it takes.
Patton's dead
Bump to that!
yes, but only if its coupled with a change in tactics and the rules of engagement.
increasing troop levels just to do the same exact things we do there now, is simply an increase in the number of targets for the insurgents.
won't happen without a coup.
Pattonesk
While I only know what I read (which means I know nothing) it sounds more political than military necessity.
Maybe now that the "light footprint" guys are out of the way, we can get a good estimate from the military.
All that are needed without the PC hold they are under...
If the politicians will allow the military to do their jobs ... kill people and break things ... I am all for putting as many in there as it will take to do the job.
We knew how to end WWII and we know how to begin to put an end to this Islamofacist BS but we just don't seem to have the guts to do it.
Know much about this 101st guy?
Only if we go Ethiopian an their a$$e$.
Since Mcnut is for it, I'm agin it. He knows the dems are agin it, and are probably going to raise mccain so why not encourage the republicans to make some more mistakes. The President has already said, and I agree, that the overall force size needs to increase if we are to be sucked into additional boots on the ground.
Frankly, I think we have been doing fine with the force size we have but guess who the pot stirrers are that want change (rhetorical question)? Well this change just won't cut it in their world, where cut has to be combined with run or fund before it will sell.
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