NationStates Jolt Archive

I keep hearing that the American military needs to stay in Iraq to complete the mission, and they can still succeed.

And I've been wondering: What is the current mission?

It's not liberating the Iraqi people, as that was done years ago.
It's not looking for weapons of mass destruction, cos that's been done too.

as far as i can see the mission of our soldiers in iraq is to be targets so that radical islam will kill them rather than plan terrorists acts inside the US.

too cynical?

The mission is to defeat the 'terrorists' so when we leave they don't hitch a ride in the baggage department our planes and 'follow us home'.

Mission - to help Haliburton make $$$ before Iraq collapses into a burning heap.

The mission is, and always has been, to plant the seeds of democracy in the political desert that is the Middle East. The mission is to grant self-determination and universal suffrage to the people of Iraq, all the people of Iraq. The hope, dare I say the dream, is that this will galvanise the citizens of other Middle East countries to rise up and throw down their oppressors, to form their own government in the spirit of 1776 - to create a country of the people, by the people and for the people.

Alas, evil cheese-eating surrender monkeys do all they can to undermine the USA in their mission to bring the future to the medieval past. Subversive elements do all they can to destabilise the good people of Iraq. Infiltrators creep into the country, cause division among men and discontent throughout the land.

If we can stay the course, hold down the fort and keep the peace, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon....Wal-Mart can open their first store in Baghdad.

There's some oil as well.

Anyway, that's the official line as far as I can tell.

The mission is, and always has been, to plant the seeds of democracy in the political desert that is the Middle East. The mission is to grant self-determination and universal suffrage to the people of Iraq, all the people of Iraq. The hope, dare I say the dream, is that this will galvanise the citizens of other Middle East countries to rise up and throw down their oppressors, to form their own government in the spirit of 1776 - to create a country of the people, by the people and for the people.

Alas, evil cheese-eating surrender monkeys do all they can to undermine the USA in their mission to bring the future to the medieval past. Subversive elements do all they can to destabilise the good people of Iraq. Infiltrators creep into the country, cause division among men and discontent throughout the land.

If we can stay the course, hold down the fort and keep the peace, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon....Wal-Mart can open their first store in Baghdad.

There's some oil as well.

Anyway, that's the official line as far as I can tell.

lol

it was inspiring both times!

we need to make the world safe for walmart!

The mission is, and always has been, to plant the seeds of democracy in the political desert that is the Middle East. The mission is to grant self-determination and universal suffrage to the people of Iraq, all the people of Iraq. The hope, dare I say the dream, is that this will galvanise the citizens of other Middle East countries to rise up and throw down their oppressors, to form their own government in the spirit of 1776 - to create a country of the people, by the people and for the people.

Alas, evil cheese-eating surrender monkeys do all they can to undermine the USA in their mission to bring the future to the medieval past. Subversive elements do all they can to destabilise the good people of Iraq. Infiltrators creep into the country, cause division among men and discontent throughout the land.

If we can stay the course, hold down the fort and keep the peace, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon....Wal-Mart can open their first store in Baghdad.

There's some oil as well.

Anyway, that's the official line as far as I can tell.

Yes but the difference is, just because the Iraqis have elected a government that doesn't mean they have a democratic government, they have a sectarian government, you see in real democracies when you don't agree with a party or group - you debate and compromise with them, you don't go and behead their families.

Yes but the difference is, just because the Iraqis have elected a government that doesn't mean they have a democratic government, they have a sectarian government, you see in real democracies when you don't agree with a party or group - you debate and compromise with them, you don't go and behead their families.

Is that in the constitution of Iraq?

What's your point?

lol

it was inspiring both times!

we need to make the world safe for walmart!

Welcome to Wal-Mart ... I love you.
*pines*

If we can stay the course, hold down the fort and keep the peace, maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon....Wal-Mart can open their first store in Baghdad.

There's some oil as well.

Anyway, that's the official line as far as I can tell.

Walmart is the perfect weapon against the terrorists! They can blow it up over and over but until they break the mirrior in the back near the TVs it will rebuild itself.