"We need to stay in Iraq to finish the job". Quick simple responses.

[uppityperson]

My most recent one to a "stay the courser": So we need to stay and kill all the insurgents we are creating by being there? (their response:"no, we are not creating any, they are just all coming there")

The mind of some needs short, quick responses. Preferably emotional, intellectual works, but they need to be short. Do you have ones to share? Thank you.

[LuckyLib]

1. "That's what was said about Vietnam, too. 50,000 American dead.

Not to mention 2 million or so Vietnamese.

[uppityperson]

2. that is good, thank you.

[driver8]

3. The thing is, no one can tell us when "the job will be finished."

There is no plan. There are no objectives that I can see.

The "finish the job" excuse means "we have no idea how to get out of this shit hole we have created."

[uppityperson]

7. So turn it into a question? "When will the job be finished"?

I don't know how you can finish killing people who hate you for killing people who hate you for killing people who hate you for killing people who hate you ....

[driver8]

11. Oh, believe me, I do. I have not had an adequate answer, yet. n/t

[Benhurst]

14. And just what is the job?

[The_Casual_Observer]

4. There aren't enough bullets to "finish the job".

[VolcanoJen]

5. You could always try this one

Them: "We need to stay in Iraq and finish the job!"

You: "I'll be they could finish a lot faster if you enlisted to help."

[madokie]

6. isn't the ME enough of a mess already without us staying any longer

[johnnypneumatic]

8. what was the job again?

and what does building a moat around bagdad have to do with it

[pacalo]

9. "You said "mission accomplished" two years ago; now you're flip-flopping."

[POAS]

19. Good One

[longship]

10. How long will the war with Oceana... er, Iraq continue?"

nt

[baldguy]

12. The illiterate bushbots wouldn't get it.

And those that would, won't think it applies to them.

[longship]

18. It's not meant to change the Bushbots.

Who cares about them?

It would be a stinging rebuke to anybody who was learned enough to know the reference, which is a significant portion of the much more literate public.

[POAS]

20. Nah, they'd never get the reference

[uppityperson]

21. I had an incident happen about my car window sign "War is Peace..."

"George Orwell 1984
George Bush 2004"

Someone said they liked it a few yrs ago. I said that some people didn't get the reference to Orwell. Response "didn't he write a book or something? If people don't like it here, they should just leave." Walk away from the freeper who was bigger and more adamant than I about his convictions.

[Bucky]

13. "I agree! This country still has a shred of credibility left."

[Lydia Leftcoast]

15. "What's the job?"

"Is it to stop the insurgents from attacking us, insurgents who didn't exist before we attacked? Is it to stop violence between Sunnis and Shias, violence which didn't exist before we attacked?"

[Tierra_y_Libertad]

16. "Take this job and shove it."

That's pretty much what I told the M/Sgt who tried to get me to extend my enlistment to go to Vietnam in '65.

[oblivious]

17. "We did finish the job. Saddam's been replaced by a democratic govt."

[Poiuyt]

22. Our mere presence there is making things worse

[mmonk]

23. What job?