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elias49 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jun-29-05 07:48 AM
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Can 160,000 Iraqi troops control the country?
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The DOD and the administration maintain that their goal is to train 160,000 Iraqis to secure and stabilize their country. Given that, currently, there are somewhere in the vicinity or 160,000 American troops in Iraq - 160,000 of the best trained, best armed troops in the world - how can anyone expect that ill-trained Iraqis would be up to the task?
I'd like to suggest that the Iraqis couldn't possibly do what American Marines, Army, Air Force and Guard can't do. I'd like to suggest that our lovely DOD is training cannon fodder, and that when (or IF) that number of Iraqis are trained, the US will pull back to their new military bases across Iraq and take to the air in a video-game type war and will be there for as long as I live. More Iraqi civilians will die. More Iraqi children will starve. More terrorists will be born and raised, and our imperial intentions will be realized. Washington's only plan is a cynical effort to conquer the Middle East with limited American casualties. War is great if only the other side is blown to bits.
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