Strategic Withdrawal
Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Sheldon predicted that if you take out Saddam Hussein, we’ll have the Kurds and the Shiites and the Sunnis fighting each other.
Both General Colin Powell and General Schwarzkopf understood the importance of the power doctrine, which requires going in with superior force. By doing so you end the war quickly, and therefore save lives. In the first Gulf War, they deployed a half million troops to liberate a small country like Kuwait.
General Shinseki went before the Senate Armed Services Committee and told them, it would take hundreds of thousands of troops if you invaded Iraq to take Saddam Hussein out and the Bush regime relieved him of his command. General Tommy Franks argued in the first briefing in Crawford, Texas for 500,000 troops, but was denied. Our Commander-in-Chief decided to go into Iraq with 150,000 troops and our troops have been paying the price in blood ever since.
Many generals that have led divisions in Iraq insist that Iraq is not winnable militarily, and we should be seeking a diplomatic and political solution. Our military should be told to put together an orderly plan for a strategic withdrawal of our ground forces out of Iraq. We need not withdraw diplomatically, because ultimately the problem is political.
Some Senators claim that a precipitous withdrawal with a timeline would create chaos and guarantee defeat. Senators McCain and Liberman want to dispatch another 50,000 troops to bolster the our current military presence in Iraq. Their plan is reminiscent of Vietnam, when General Westmoreland asked for 50,000 more troops and then 100,000 more troops. More troops are not the answer, because there is not a military solution.
We've been in Iraq for almost four years. We have already lost militarily and created chaos. We’ve lost more than 3,000 brave young men and women with 25,000 wounded, many of whom will be maimed for life. How many more years are we going tolerate our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
Both General Colin Powell and General Schwarzkopf understood the importance of the power doctrine, which requires going in with superior force. By doing so you end the war quickly, and therefore save lives. In the first Gulf War, they deployed a half million troops to liberate a small country like Kuwait.
General Shinseki went before the Senate Armed Services Committee and told them, it would take hundreds of thousands of troops if you invaded Iraq to take Saddam Hussein out and the Bush regime relieved him of his command. General Tommy Franks argued in the first briefing in Crawford, Texas for 500,000 troops, but was denied. Our Commander-in-Chief decided to go into Iraq with 150,000 troops and our troops have been paying the price in blood ever since.
Many generals that have led divisions in Iraq insist that Iraq is not winnable militarily, and we should be seeking a diplomatic and political solution. Our military should be told to put together an orderly plan for a strategic withdrawal of our ground forces out of Iraq. We need not withdraw diplomatically, because ultimately the problem is political.
Some Senators claim that a precipitous withdrawal with a timeline would create chaos and guarantee defeat. Senators McCain and Liberman want to dispatch another 50,000 troops to bolster the our current military presence in Iraq. Their plan is reminiscent of Vietnam, when General Westmoreland asked for 50,000 more troops and then 100,000 more troops. More troops are not the answer, because there is not a military solution.
We've been in Iraq for almost four years. We have already lost militarily and created chaos. We’ve lost more than 3,000 brave young men and women with 25,000 wounded, many of whom will be maimed for life. How many more years are we going tolerate our troops dying in a situation, which isn’t working?
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