Iraq Study Group Report-Full Text

This seems unacceptable to me. It's all a little of this and a little of that. We went into that country and and started a downward spiral that we are lucky to be able to get out of. We can't abandon those people. We can't pull the troops until the job is done, but we can't stay the course the way the course is now.

What we need to do, is take all the civilians and ship them someplace safe. Then we need to drastically increase US troops, and I mean drastically...if it takes a draft, then so be it. Then we go in there with all the airpower we have and blow away every possible insurgent stronghold there is. Then the US has to fund rebuilding. Americans agreed with the president on this war, we are going to have to pay the price. Then we pull the troops and fight the real war on terror. That is the only way to do it. Period. We have been there for 5 years. How do we expect the Iraq military to be able to take over in one year, when the US military isn't winning this war? We would be leaving those people to implode. Bush has refused to increase troops, even at the bequest of most people who know better. He has to be taken out of office to get this job done right. End of story. We can't wait for the next election.

Iraq Study Group Report