22% say Bush has no Iraq plan. 19% say Dems lack plan

[antiimperialist]

Republicans blame Democrats of having no plan, but Americans doubt Bush has one himself.
Oh, the irony.
http://people-press.org/reports/display.php3?ReportID=296

[LynnTheDem]

1. bush's fuck-up. How come everyone else has to have a plan to clean it up?

Oh that's right...bush is a "party of responsibility" rightwingnut republican.

[MadMaddie]

2. So the Dems aren't even in power yet and they are responsible?

No surprise though the Repugs have a less than two months to come up with a plan they should have had 3 years ago...

The Dems have a plan....but to complicate it they have to undo so much shit the Repugs have done....sigh..

Welcome to DU!:hi:

[BuyingThyme]

3. Lots of info there. Thank you.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

4. There is no plan because the outcome isn't up to us

You can't devise a magic plan to pacify a civil war in which you are an outsider and invader. All you can be assured of is that the situation will get worse the longer we are there. The only thing you can plan for is to never again involve the country in this kind of dilemma.

[BlooInBloo]

5. The numbers are 100% meaningless without a margin of error given.

That is, just in case anyone cares about the truth.

[Disturbed]

6. Here is a plan.

Kucinich 10 point plan

1. The United States must ask the United Nations to manage the oil assets of Iraq until the Iraqi people are self-governing.

2.The United Nations must handle all the contracts: No more Halliburton sweetheart deals, No contracts to Bush Administration insiders, No contracts to campaign contributors. All contracts must be awarded under transparent conditions.

3. The United States must renounce any plans to privatize Iraq. It is illegal under both the Geneva and the Hague Conventions for any nation to invade another nation, seize its assets, and sell those assets. The Iraqi people, and the Iraqi people alone must have the right to determine the future of their country's resources.

4. The United States must ask the United Nations to handle the transition to Iraqi self-governance. The UN must be asked to help the Iraqi people develop a Constitution. The UN must assist in developing free and fair elections.

5. The United States must agree to pay for what we blew up.

6. The United States must pay reparations to the families of innocent Iraqi civilian noncombatants killed and injured in the conflict.

7. The United States must contribute financially to the UN peacekeeping mission.

8. The United Nations, through its member nations, will commit 130,000 peacekeepers to Iraq on a temporary basis until the Iraqi people can maintain their own security.

9. UN troops will rotate into Iraq, and all US troops will come home.

10. The United States will abandon policies of "preemption" and unilateralism and commit to strengthening the UN


Anybody think that Busholini will accept it?

[provis99]

7. Kucinich is the man but Iraq is probably too far gone now

I think that Marine Corps commandant is right when he said within 6 months Iraq will slip into chaos unless "stay the course" is changed. Kucinich's policies should be general foreign policies to avoid fuckups like Iraq in the first place. Unfortunately, the only plans I see the Congressional leadership publicly supporting are a vague idea to "pull back" and eventually out, leaving Iraq to collapse.