reply to post by Truther
Obama, like every well informed person, knows that it will be impossible to "bring the troops home", whatever that means, with a click of is
fingers. I am not an Obama supporter and think he, in the unlikely event of being elected, would do more harm then good to the USA; but I do consider
him an intelligent person, with great advisers.
Following politics, like I do, you find out that what comes out of any politician's mouth when he is running to be elected is very different from
what he truly believes, or, more accurately, from what he believes can be done.
Obama knows he can't just whistle the troops back home, because:
a) You can't just put 150000 troops, and their equipment, in a bunch of planes and fly off into the sun set. It has to be organized, well planed and
executed, which, of course takes time. Who will protect the troops while they are being pulled out, do you leave a couple of companies to be
massacred?
b) Pulling out the troops will create a vacuum of power in the whole region. We are talking about civil war (Kurds against Shiites against Sunnis and
so on); all out wars can break out (like Turkey invading Iraqi Kurdistan, Syria claiming the territories on it's border with Iraq, Iran clamming the
Iraq territories they fought about in the eighties, and so on). So a total pull out could ignite the whole region, maybe even the whole world (of the
flow of oil is compromised, and it will be).
These are just some of the reasons I believe trouble Obama. Like any politician he resorts to double talk, when speaking to the people he tells them
what they want to hear, in speaking to political analysts, or at political meetings, or to an educated audience he says what he thinks is possible to
achieve.
I bare him no resentment for this, he is like all politicians, he is like all people, he doesn't have a magic wand (even if he says he does in order
to get elected).
He may not like the occupation of Iraq but, as a leader, he has to live in the real world, as opposed to the "what if world" some Americans seem to
think they live in.
Whoever becomes President is going to inherit this situation, and it will not go away because of wishful thinking or reading "The Secret". And it
doesn't make any difference to the future President if we all repeat over and over that we should never have invaded Iraq. The truth is that Iraq
was occupied and America is now responsible for the fate of it's people and the stability of the region. That is the task the new President will
face, whether he likes it or not.
