IF it was up to YOU, how would you deal with the WAR in IRAQ?
824347
I would send more troops to Iraq. I would lift the shoot only when shot at order. I believe William T. Sherman summed it up best with several different quotes:\n\n"I would make this war as severe as possible, and show no symptoms of tiring till the (enemy) begs for mercy." \n\n"There is many a [boy] who looks on war as all glory, but, boys, it is all hell. You must bear this warning voice to generations to come."\n\n"I hate newspapermen. They come into camp and pick up their camp rumors and print them as facts. I regard them as spies, which, in truth, they are. If I killed them all there would be news from Hell before breakfast."\n\n"...we are not only fighting hostile armies, but a hostile people, and must make old and young, rich and poor, feel the hard hand of war, as well as their organized armies."\n\n“My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.”\n\n"To those who submit to the rightful law and authority, all gentleness and forbearance; but to the petulant and persistent secessionist, why, death is mercy, and the quicker he or she is disposed of the better." \n\nAnd last, but not least, the most relevant:\n\n"War is cruelty. There is no use trying to reform it. The crueler it is, the sooner it will be over."
1030223
If you were called to the Military and they were to send you to Iraq you don't have a choise as to what you would do and wouldn't do.  When the military tells you something.  You can't question it or tell them no.  Unless of course you are wanting to go through a life of hell afterwards.  So in other words you have no say as to what you would or wouldn't do if you were called up and sent overseas.  You just have to follow orders.
1072412
It's if your caught between Iraq and a hard place.
511403
the very first thing i would do is bring our troops home, let them take some time off, then send them to our gulf coast and get that place rebuilt. it's an embarrassment the way we have dropped the ball on that one. second i would, abolish special interest intervention within the government.\nthird, i would eliminate the tax system as we know it, and institute a flat tax system.\nfourth, i would impose term limits on members of congress, no careers as a congressman. two years and you go home. the fat lazy asses would be gone.\nfifth, i would make it a policy that every newborn be given a U.S. Flag, copy of the constitution, and a U.S. History book along with a social security number.\nsixth, i would institute the death penalty for anybody convicted of a sexual crime against a child under the age of ?\nPLUS SO MUCH MORE
436861
Afghanistan?  Iraq?  That'd do it.  I'd be scared living out that way.\n\nAs a matter of fact, any war-torn country would just about do it.
336019
it would depend on the circumstances of the war
764812
Iraq is currently the single most important issue to me. Our strategy needs to change quickly and in a way that will help the Iraqis take over security of their own nation and thus allow our troops to concentrate on helping NATO in Afghanistan. This strategy change should include anything and everything up to, but not including, leaving before Iraq is able to maintain its own security.
1035704
When the job is complete.\n\nWe have worked hard to achieve things that you seem to be working equally hard to ignore.\n\nWe (the soldiers) can and are winning the war.\n\nNow my question is: Are you going to let us and the Iraqi people down?\n\nAnd: If you stab us in the back and deny us our victory here - just who will fight for you next time?
806193
I would shoot myself. If I became so detached to where I didn't know what was going on in my country enough for that to be a suprise...I would not consider myself a viable citizen.\n\nIf I knew it was happening, I would do what I had to do.
1084037
This is the wisest decision you have taken to yourself, your family and your future. Being in Iraq for so-called search for weapons of mass destruction is nothing other than terrorising the lives of other people who belong to a country, religion, culture etc different to yours. It does not make any complete sense to continue this war.
839644
1. Pull the troops out of Iraq immediately\n\n2. Have the big oil companies give away free oil to everybody for a year\n\n3. Seal the borders from illegal aliens\n\n4. Ratify the Constitution to have term limits for the legislative branch of government\n\n5. Keep government limited in terms of size & power.
1057894
I would want control of the middle-east so I could have waged war on myself a long time go. The whole area is a giant barren waste of space. I would have pumped all the oil out first though.
708137
I'd say a Pyyhric victory is still possible, but only if we can muster enough troops and descend on Iraq in sufficient force to close and control the borders,then clean it up from the inside out.  We need to acknowledge to our allies that we really messed up, and ask for help.  They may not give it, but we need to try.  Walking away and leaving such a monumental disaster of our making is utterly dishonorable.  Bush and his supporters made a terrible mistake, and it's much too late to do anything about that, but we should not simply throw up our hands and leave Iraq to its fate.
726502
We could pull out and let them dip into a civil war, or stay there and let our troops endure the war.  We should not have gone there in the first place, and if we felt we had no choice, we shouldn't have bombed them back to the stone age.\n\nAny way you look at it, the Iraqi's lose.
1129750
Honestly I can only see one way.  To deploy a massive force in Iraq.  We would have to triple (at the very least) the troops and equipment already there.  We would have to establish a very unpopular Marshall law, having a huge presence on EVERY street corner.   Once the "insurgent" attacks subside, we would have to put the government on a fast track to developing the massive infrastructure needed to protect itself from domestic threats.\nI don't any way shape or form condon this war but we started it now we must finish it and try to "make things right".
194722
What do you think we'd do? They can't beat us on their home ground let alone in 48 contiguous states! We'd kick their A$$es! Anyway, we have nothing against them now. I would hate that it would happen but if you were an Iraqi soldier would you want to fight us, especially on our turf? Come on! If it were to happen our Marines and Army would be scraping them up off the bottom of their shoes! I don't mean to sound American egotistical but I do know that we have one of the finest, most well trained military in the world. It wouldn't last too long, I guarantee it because what the military might miss, our American citizens would take up the slack to defend our own. I would gladly become part of a militia to protect my country from things like that. I wouldn't think twice about it. I'd be there next to my American brethren in no time because this country and it's people are more precious to me than life itself, and I'd never turn my back on them.
707275
I'd love to see our troops come home and they can , just as soon as your government can stand by itself .\nRight now , you have a lot of trouble because different factions want to rule the country . Some would be new dictatorships if they won .\nIf we pulled out , next week , you'd have a full blown civil war that would last for years . You could end up with someone a lot worse than Saddam .\nThe key is for all the people of Iraq to learn to live and work together as equals , not as Shia , Sunni and Kurds ,but as Iraqis .