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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:27 AM Original message |
Let's say we pull the troops our of Iraq next week. What happens then? |
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Rabrrrrrr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:30 AM Response to Original message |
1. Americans would stop dying, we'd save going further in debt, and those assholes |
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Pawel K (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:33 AM Response to Original message |
2. First off if we pull out we need to stay in the Kurdish north |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:34 AM Response to Original message |
3. it's not our fucking oiL |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:59 AM Response to Reply #3 |
13. I'm not saying the oil is ours |
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sniffa (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:10 AM Response to Reply #13 |
21. fair enough but |
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mmonk (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
4. Depends if you pull out without talking to anyone (neighbors) or not. |
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Maribelle (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:35 AM Response to Original message |
5. Casting for Miss Saigon II begins. |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:36 AM Response to Original message |
6. Human sacrifice!! Dogs and cats living together!!! |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:03 AM Response to Reply #6 |
16. Well, if THAT'S all... |
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Squatch (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:08 AM Original message |
Well, if you want a serious response as to what might happen |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:22 AM Response to Original message |
28. 1500's - 1920, rather peaceful actually. |
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CT_Progressive (889 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:26 AM Response to Reply #16 |
29. Hmm, someone is not a GhostBusters fan... |
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bigtree (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:39 AM Response to Original message |
7. Iran already has influence in Iraq with extensive economic and security agreements |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:04 AM Response to Reply #7 |
18. Thanks |
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Ganja Ninja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:43 AM Response to Original message |
8. The 2 most likely outcomes are either a civil war on some scale |
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MissWaverly (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:44 AM Response to Original message |
9. Same thing that happened when Brits pulled out |
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LiberalEsto (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:46 AM Response to Original message |
10. We'd use the troops to invade another country |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:01 AM Response to Reply #10 |
15. Not North Korea |
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Dhalgren (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:52 AM Response to Original message |
11. I can just hear the car-jacker, now, addressing the judge: |
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seemunkee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 08:56 AM Response to Original message |
12. Don't be so sure Turkey isn't already in play |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:05 AM Response to Reply #12 |
19. I'm seeing a lot of news links for Turkey and PKK in Iraq |
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RethugAssKicker (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:00 AM Response to Original message |
14. When the Brits pulled out of Basra...... violence ended significantly. |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:11 AM Response to Reply #14 |
22. Reminds me of a few years ago when it was reported that Mexicans thought of us |
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blondeatlast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:04 AM Response to Original message |
17. The republicans would lose the WH and Congress next year. Of course, they will anyway, |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:08 AM Response to Original message |
20. Iran would actively defend it's new acquisition. |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:14 AM Response to Reply #20 |
25. There really is no way to exit gracefully, is there? |
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WilliamPitt (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #25 |
27. *sigh* |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:12 AM Response to Original message |
23. well, at one brigade a month*, it would take a while, and |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:18 AM Response to Reply #23 |
26. We need to get out, there's no doubt about that. |
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Bluerthanblue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:37 AM Response to Reply #26 |
30. they not only had |
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auburngrad82 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #30 |
31. Very well said. |
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endarkenment (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:14 AM Response to Original message |
24. The people of the region will settle their own affairs. |
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ronnie624 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:41 AM Response to Reply #24 |
32. Well said. |
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Tierra_y_Libertad (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Oct-02-07 09:43 AM Response to Original message |
33. We will no longer be in charge of the "white man's burden" and they will settle their own disputes. |
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