Will The End in Iraq Become a "Nightmare Scenario "?

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20060626/howl

Is the badly outnumbered American expeditionary force in Iraq in trouble? Is it in danger of being trapped? With all our firepower, are we looking at the possibility of some kind of a military defeat?

As the bad news continues to seep in, debates about exit strategies are going out of date. Another year like the last three and the deteriorating military situation will have us debating what tactics will be necessary to extract our people with a minimum of loss.

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A half-million pair of boots on the ground can only be gotten by conscription. The chances of reactivating the draft for Iraq are nil. If our political leaders have to choose between a new conscription and risking a defeat, there is no question about what they will do.

Should discipline continue to break down at the platoon and company level, pulling the scattered American forces together and getting them out may be a harrowing experience. Retreat under fire, even if it's harassing guerrilla fire, is difficult even for an army without internal problems.

Air evacuation would mean abandoning billions of dollars of equipment. There is no seaport troops could get to, so the only way out of Iraq would be that same desert highway to Kuwait where fifteen years ago the American Air Force destroyed Saddam Hussein's army.

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and if anybody doubts it, go back and study your history. Bad things happen to occupying armies, even vastly better armed and trained ones, when you have an organized insurgency.

It already is a nightmare scenario. There is no way to "win" this at this point.

Get out, get out, get out! Now!

.....its coming again.:hide: I think that this time its going to be even uglier though.:cry:

by now most of it's probably in pretty shitty condition , and if they leave it behind as a "gift' to the Iraqi army, it will save us money brining it back..and that's how they create a need for all new war-toys. The military contractors need new BMWs..