How long will it take to "Finish the Job" in Iraq?

"Too Damn Long" as an option. ;-)

I chose 20 years.

Julie

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They are the ones that want to "finish the job" - ask them what it means. I would sure as hell like to know!

What is "the job" when the "job description" changes?

Was it to find WMDs?
Punish Saddam for 9/11?
Liberate the Iraqi people?

Even staunch GOPers will say recite the latest "job description" when pressed to cite the reason for the Iraq invasion.

I'd love to hear it, and how long they expect to take.

It is about establishing a permanent base of military operations in a strategic location within the gulf states. Saudi Arabia was a bad place for this as was evidenced by the anger of Bin Laden (Why the hell does no one mention that we closed the bases in Saudi Arabia? This was Bin Laden's stated goal! He freakin won fer crissakes!). Kuwait is too small and strategically much less important. With a base in Iraq, the US can, at a moments notice seize the oil fields.

The US will *never* leave Iraq. There will be a permanent military base established there as soon as stability can be achieved. Once the new Democratic President is inaugerated you can bet that he/she will announce that we must stay the course in Iraq once presented with the first security briefing.

I have no doubt that US troops will be in Iraq permanently, whether we've got a Republican president or not.

what's the point then?

The only candidates that I actually believe when they talk about withdrawing from Iraq are dismissed as "fringe" or "unelectable".

But there are many other issues besides Iraq, and Bush is disastrous on all of them. I do *hope* that a Dean or a Clark would move to withdraw from Iraq ASAP, but I'm not convinced that it's the case. Just my opinion.

what to do?

however long it takes to suck every last drop of oil from Iraq and every last penny from US taxpayers.

The job has barrely begun. :)

what's the job again?

Cannot be done, thus "other."


Cher

Years from now, people will look back on this moment and remember "US In, Us Out" and remember how other people had a "better plan". I hope they remember all the reasons they didn't heed the warning.

!!! lol

happens all the time

That might give us an idea how long it'll take...

Also, did anyone catch Martin Savidge's report on the Korean DMZ on CNN last week? What a surreal place the DMZ is...

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and * wants to "finish the Job" there too

now....unless we are unceremoniously tossed out on our asses.

The war was based on a fraudulent premise therefore there IS no job to finish.

as far as I can tell

After the "Iraqization" of Iraq, as in Vietnam. I'd say about five years and 20,000 american troop deaths from now....and oh, about 100,000 maimed soldiers.

They told us we'd need a Pearl Harbor type event to get it rollin', lo and behold we got one, but then don't seem to have a timeline.

that's the biggest problem.

It's about controlling resources and production globally. Why? Because if you control those you control economies, governments and populations.

in those ten years?

The "War" will end just after the election.

The "job" has already been done. I firmly believe that the "war" was started to give the DumbSon the perception of having a huge jockstrap and being "decisive" in response to 9/11. The fact that the world is less safe after the so called "war" (how can one call the defeat of a crumbling country with a 10th rate military a war?)is of no import to Bush or his lackies and his corporate advisors. The "job" has accomplished most of what it set out to do - convince most of the American people that the "war" was a just and necessary cause.

The cost of the cynical invasion and subjugation of Iraq will not end for decades. We, the American people, will be paying for this election ploy in lives and money for an unforseeable time.

As for Iraq, at some point the American occupation will end. Just fizzle out after a sufficient number of people have been killed. It is an unwinnable conflict.

The Iraqi people will eventually find themselves governed by Iraqis. What sort of Iraqis is yet to be seen.

He did say before the midterm elections that if the Republicans ran on domestic issues, they would lose. The war fixed that problem.