what do american administration plan for iraq?
97335
to exploit it in full.\nhow can they make it a safe place by using force and weapons is a way only americans know, or don't wanna know.
839644
1. Pull the troops out of Iraq immediately\n\n2. Have the big oil companies give away free oil to everybody for a year\n\n3. Seal the borders from illegal aliens\n\n4. Ratify the Constitution to have term limits for the legislative branch of government\n\n5. Keep government limited in terms of size & power.
1123470
No.  we can't just pull out of Iraq before its own government is stable.  Then it would be another Vietnam.  If we just pick up and leave, the country will turn into a police state, much like Somalia did during the Clinton administration.
933466
The Bush administration doesn't care if Iraq moves toward a democracy. If we were there to bring democracy to a country ruled by an evil despot, we'd be in every other nation on Earth ruled by an evil despot. We're there for OIL. Pure and simple.\nBecause American motorists want to drive $60,000 gas-guzzling SUVs and because Dick Cheney and his Exxon-Mobil buddies want to get richer and richer and richer as they feed America's addiction to foreign OIL. \nBush doesn't 'hear' anything but his own 'cowboy' ego. Bush is nothing more than a puppet controlled by the nameless, faceless sub-humans who run our government from behind-the-scenes. The wealthy elitists, special interest groups, military-industrial complex, and big corporations have told Bush what to do, what to say, and coached him on how to act. He's a moron.\nWe WILL NOT WITHDRAW TROOPS from Iraq until we've sucked every drop of OIL out of that land. If that's not the case, why is the U.S.A. building the largest embassy in the world on a 104-acre sit in downtown Baghdad overlooking the 'new' Iraqi puppet government just installed by the Bush administration??\nWe're there for the OIL.\nThe Republicans know it. The Democrats know it.\nNothing will change.\nThe Iraqi Civil War will go on, and Cheney will eventually get a rock-solid, iron clad agreement from the new Iraqi government that gives U.S. oil companies exclusive rights to all that easily-accessible OIL.   \nThe blood of about 675,000 people (Iraqis and Americans) is on the hands of greed head politicians, war-profiteering corporate entities, war-mongering members of the giant U.S. military-industrial complex, and motorists who think they have a right to drive Hummers and other outlandish vehicles that waste gas.\nIraq is not moving toward being a democracy.\nIt's moving toward being a puppet regime for the U.S.A. -RKO-
707571
Bush knows the answer to that one...\n\nImplications- Iraq, for example.
138196
get out of iraq as fast as possible. but i guess as long as iraq has oil that is not something america wants to do.
1087888
Government of America's Choice? How is that when Iraq held their own elections?
1168451
What I think we should do as far as a serious answer goes is: equip the Iraqi "army" with some modern equipment.  We then give the Iraqi government a 1 billion dollar loan.  We start to pull troops out at a rate of 100 per week.  By the time we get out the politicians will have agreed to this new idea.  Allow the Iraqis to pay back their loan in a steady river of oil until we all switch to something new.  The Iraqi people would be grateful and the government would become our strongest ally.  Iran would then try to make Iraq more like it, but we will be liked more.  We will economically be in a better position and there would be nothing to complain about.  The Iraqis will be able to defend themselves and it should all be good.
701638
They study how to make Iraq prosper and unite under US supervision.
1041862
Oil--long before Bush came into office Cheney and his cronies had plans to take over Iraq to secure the oil preserves for America. Only they thought the Iraqis would welcome them with flowers. Didn't happen did it?
525034
our troops will stop dying for that particular cause and Iraq will probably revert to a war torn arena that is governed by warlords and/or different religious factions until the most powerful one is able to take control, which will probably/definitely be another Saddam.... then you will have another situation unlike the previous and we can start all over, probably with a US leader that will not invade but will allow a military buildup and then we can just let them invade us..... after all, the only thing most (not all but most) of the governments in that part of the world want is the complete destruction of the west.... which includes us and anyone that is on our side................. so while no one wants what we have there now.... the choice is finish it and get out or get out and let them finish us............... our choice.
193511
I believe we are starting to see signs of a determined effort on the part of the US administration to give the fledgling Iraqi government a timetable to deal with, in terms of the US reducing its troop strength. This is happening for a number of reasons.  1) The American people have had quite enough of the pace of this war and our inability to stop the senseless killings of our troops, by these devil worshiping bastards the media calls, insurgents.\n2) We need to free ourselves up from this circle jerk before the next one starts.\nWe may not see a complete troop withdrawal for a long time, but we may be able to pull our guys back or out of harms way so they are no longer practice fodder for the bad guys.  Remember, the bad guys don't want to see us go, they want to keep us there putting out fires, but hopefully we can see that and not allow ourselves to play into it.
544620
American foreign policy is largely run by the military.  There is a fundamental disconect.  Bear with me a moment.  The act of war is not an end in itself. It is merely a small part of a larger process - governing.  However, America is very bad at the final phase of conquering - the civil administration.  It's a little like getting a hockey team that can get the puck into the goal area but simply cannot get the actual goal.  However close they get, they will always fail as they can not achieve getting the puck into the net.  So it is with American  wars.  \n\nThe failure to place an effective government (Iraq, Somalia, Vietnam) means the war never actually concludes - and eventually the military will fades as it must - and any gain is lost.  Had an effective government (any government) been established in Iraq the pressure from the military would have been eased.  Instead this basic disconnect continues and the American effort will inevitably end badly.\n\nExamples of how it could be done can be seen in the Roman Empire, the French Colonisation of french African states, the British Empire and the Chinese expansions of the last  3000 years.  All have had enormous success, and have included in their model civil governance. Additionally there was a strong will of the colonizing nationals to participate in the new regime - as civil administrators, settlers, farmers and shop keepers.  How many Americans do you see queueing up to set up shops in Baghdad? It simply isn't a part of the US psyche. They'd rather be in California.\n\nWhile the military dominate foreign policy (and ironically the CIA), there will simply never be a solution. It doesn't matter how big or technological the military are - it never has.\n\nJFS
975407
We are slowly learning things that the administration has been hiding concerning things like U.S. servicemen being killed by Iraqi police.\n\n\nThis is in keeping with making all useful information "classified" then demanding of the opposition "What's your plan?"\n\nLike blindfolding you then telling you to identify the color of the car that just drove by.
803463
There is none.  The U.S. has just managed to put into power a group of people whose entire political philosophy, and their entire platform, is NOTHING beyond "I hate George Bush!"\n\nThey have no exit strategy from Iraq.  They have no plans to save Social Security.  They have no plans to defend us against terrorism.  They have no idea how to run the government.  They have no concept of how business works.  They have no concept of what the Constitution or Bill of Rights mean. They have no plan for reducing size of the Federal government or bureaucracy.  They have no plan for reducing the Federal deficit except to raise our taxes, and then spend even more money.  They have no plan for improving Health Care except to socialize it.\n\nAnd we've managed to put into power a party that has, traditionally, stated that you, Mr. or Mrs. John Q. Public, are entirely too stupid to know how to run your own life, so just let them run everything for you.\n\nThe next few years ought to be especially perverted.
99595
The US government will not build a private corporation in Iraq. However, there is a strong liklihood that some sort of freiegn Wal*Mart and McDonald's will be built in Iraq.  Both already have a presence in other Mid East nations. If the security of Irawq gets better and the economy improves, then the Capitalistic American way would require that they be built in Iraq.
483570
I think you are probably right, that the outcome will be a defeat. The US government has forgotten what it took to win the peace after WWII.\n\nPresident Truman authorized the Marshall plan that rebuilt Europe and has ultimately led to the European Economic  Union. In the conquered countries, like Germany, the allied powers contracted the best possible civil servants and military officials for 5 year tours to establish civilian rule. They instituted effective martial law until the new German government was ready to take over. The German army troops were detained and retrained. War criminals were tried and justice was seen to be done.   \n\n\nUS forces are in an unwinnable position. Rumsfeld and Rice have no coherent plan on how to put Iraq back together. The military is fighting a holding action with no specified goal. The civilian government is in a war zone with no resources. \n\nThe peace will only be won if the US realizes that it takes more than money and troops to establish a working country with a workable constitution. \n\nI would say that if the Iraqi "insurgents" were being arrested and handed over to a criminal justice system then the peace has been won. Until then, with no civil direction, Iraq is going to bleed the US.