What is Bush's plan for Iraq post-election?

[gulliver]

Will he request more money? More troops? I think so.

It should be an issue in the election. Bush is the only candidate not being asked about his plans for Iraq.

If Bush wins the election, I think he will almost immediately request another $100 billion. He will argue that the election ratified his approach to Iraq and that the $100 billion is needed for the war on terror.

Actually, he'll ask for $93 billion to keep it under three figures. That is the kind of sales-job stuff he likes to pull.

[ClintonTyree]

1. Plan?

We don't need no stinking plan! There never was one, nor is there one now. It was going to be a cakewalk, the entire country throwing flowers at our troops, remember? :eyes:

[gulliver]

5. You are right!

That is exactly why Bush needs be challenged. Bush's plan can be summed up as "Just keep doing what we're doing and put it on my credit card."

[bryant69]

2. You might be right

On the other hand, in the desire to get Iran and Syria he might want to pretend that we are succeeding there--so he might right it off, let them have a civil war, just make sure whoever wins knows they better sell their oil to us.

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[toddzilla]

3. They will always sell their oil to us..

That's not the issue, the issue is whether we will own the oil that we sell to us or not.

This is a prime reason why we should never be in the middle east anyway. Do you think they won't sell oil if we don't control it? They have to sell it, it's the only way they have to make money... Unless you count tourism.. 8)

[alcuno]

4. Forget Iraq. What's his plan for the United States?

I can guess what is it, but he's going to have to say something other than, "Don't vote for the other guy, he's worse than I am."

[ThomWV]

6. Build Military Bases

There will be US military bases in what is now Iraq for the next century. They will be used to protect the region, meaning Saudi and Kuwaite oil as well as to provide the power behind the economic (sale) of takeover of virtually all of Iraq's resources - oil. When the deposits run dry we'll be done. Its really that simple. Its not that we give a shit about Israel, its not that we give a shit about democracy, its not that we give a shit about a Christian god and that this is another Crusade. Its oil and the control of oil, no more and no less.