Should we get our TROOPS out of Iraq and send in more robot drones?

I would LOVE it if we sent in more of these robot planes instead of our troops. http://apnews.myway.com/article/20070715/D8QD61V80.html BALAD AIR BASE, Iraq (AP) - The airplane is the size of a jet fighter, powered by a turboprop engine, able to fly at 300 mph and reach 50,000 feet. It's outfitted with infrared, laser and radar targeting, and with a ton and a half of guided bombs and missiles. The Reaper is loaded, but there's no one on board. Its pilot, as it bombs targets in Iraq, will sit at a video console 7,000 miles away in Nevada. The arrival of these outsized U.S. "hunter-killer" drones, in aviation history's first robot attack squadron, will be a watershed moment even in an Iraq that has seen too many innovative ways to hunt and kill.

Public Comments

1. heck yeah
2. Where are the robots? iROBOT!
3. Just get the troops out. Robot planes in a civil/guerilla war are like rubber chickens on the dinner table. Funnier than useful. Ignoring the incredible cost of these things of course.
4. I would much rather robots go instead of men. my dad might be going next year over to Iraq =[
5. That would be nice, but just like any other military vehicle, its going to break down.. and then who's going to recover the weapons that you speak of? terroists of course,becuase we would be too far away to do anything about it, Seem's like the bigger of a machine we have , the more likely its going to break down..or take over the world
6. I wouldn't mind a few more robots in Iraq AND Afghanistan. Hell, I always thought that the Pentagon's budget for Iraq should include robots for the bomb squads of Iraqi police forces, just like we have for our police forces.
7. Robots cannot do the most important jobs, and that is knowing the public, helping the people, and making moral decisions. Even with Robots soldiers are still in control, and usually at a nearby base or post. We have lost Helicopters to enemy fire, but we haven't lost jet aircraft to enemy fire in decades, so those robots you just named would provide more headache than result.
8. the only problem is that those are multi-billiondollar planes and we are far enough in debt as it is
9. How could a top contributor ask such a silly question?
10. its not a robot, its an RC plane. and a RC plane cannot secure a building without destroying it. clearly you have no idea how anything military works. how about spending all that money from the drone on some fuckings body armor thats not 30 years old.
11. Robot planes can't knock on doors looking for insurgents or weapon caches. You need a dose of military reality.
12. yeah lets kill people! GOD BLESS AMERICA!
13. Yes we should. In fact we should just get out of there period. We finished are part in the war there and we have no reason for staying there.We are there to stop Iraq from collapsing and from starting a civil war as i have heard so many times on tv, but what at times people don't realise that when we get out of tere wether it is tomorrow nex week, next month year or even 2 years from now is that it will collapse no stopping that. It will take at least in my opinion a good 6 or 7 years to get it to a point that it won't collapse on its own and by then we are just killing people who don't need to die for this cause.
14. To the extent practical, of course. I don't know how many are available or exactly how much they can do. My guess is that they can't take the place of a large # of troops.